Well, it looks like Chevy is going to do alright by me. I just got back from the dealer where I chose a car to be transferred to my dealer from another location in the next few days. When it arrives, I get to test drive it and if all is well, they will take my car back.

I'll have to pay the difference in the sticker price of the 07 over the 06, (about $400) plus $2,100 for the mileage on my car. They are charging me 21 cents per mile for 10k miles. The car actually has almost 16,500 on it now and by the time this whole deal gets done, I'll have another 1,500 on it. Under the SC lemon law, I would only pay for 8,500 miles on the car when the leak first appeared, but the per mile rate is higher so in terms of $$$ it is about even.

It seems like a fair deal to me. Soon I'll be the owner of an 07 2LT, Imperial Blue and grey leather interior with all the options except roof rails and on-star!!

I hope the next one stays dry inside.

bn_here_b4

 

Hope you can enjoy the new when it gets here!

 

I will surely enjoy having dry feet!

I love my leaky HHr too. Even though it has been a problem, it has been lots of fun to drive. I park it by my office window so I can look out and see it while I'm at work. I love the Daytone Blue color and wish I could get that again. My car has happy memories and I will feel sad when I give up the keys.... It is a great little car - except for that persistent leak.

 

is this problem fixed yet?

 

Lynus,

If you are referring to my car, I would say no. It is going back to Chevrolet, but not as a lemon. (If they wait until they are forced to acknowledge that it is a lemon, it can't be resold.) I imagine they will attempt to repair it again and sell it to someone else...

However, the car has been "repaired" 5 different times and continued to leak after each trip to the shop. I believe the only reason it hasn't leaked since the last repaired is because we haven't had a really heavy rain yet.

 

I think he may have been asking if this issue has been fixed in the 2007's...I'm interested if it has been also


Goose

 

2007 here. No problems yet.

 

Well, after skimming through this thread I'm not too optimistic about my situation...

We had a couple days of pretty good rain here over the last week or two, and I've never had a problem with water leaking into the interior before.

However, I when I got into the car to leave work after it had been raining all day on Monday, I noticed a nice little puddle on the floor of my car on the passenger side. Hooray!

It wasn't as big of a puddle as I'd seen in some of the pics in this thread, but it was big enough. I could see the little trail of water in the carpet where the water came in under the dash and flowed down to the floor.

I took the car into the shop this morning to let those monkeys try to fix it. Of course, I'm sure they'll just call me the next day, as they usually do, and tell me that everything's "all buttoned up" when in fact everything is just as broken as it was when I brought it in to them.

It seems that unless there's been a TSB issued for a particular problem, this dealership can't fix a thing to save their lives.

Still, keeping my fingers crossed...

 

"Is the problem fixed on the '07's..." Well that makes a lot more sense than when I thought the question was whether they fixed the problem on my car. Talk about a duh-uh moment. Sorry for that!! I did wonder why he was so concerned about my car though. I laughed at myself a good bit for that one.


Well, all the paperwork is complete and I will get to pick up my new (and hopefully dry) HHR next Wednesday. I have to say that Chevy gave me less of a hassle over replacing the car than I thought they might. They were actually pretty nice about it. Maybe they have had more than a few come back with the same issue?

I had gotten advice from a lawyer who specialized in lemon law, but he never really got involved. He did tell me that Chevy gave me a fair deal and while he might have gotten $100 or so knocked off, it wouldn't be worth going to court over.

Lopper, document every time you take your car in. My photographs really helped. I also had photos of the extent to which they disassembled my car to try to fix it.

If the leaks persist, maybe you will get a new car too.

 

My 2006 HHR has been great until I had it for 14 months.... then it started. Water that comes into the glove box on the passenger side then drips on the floor. It rained hard here today and there is 1-2 inches of standing water inside my car. No sun roof either. I have had to the local dealer 4 times and each time they told me they fixed it. It was hard to tell for a while because it remained below freezing for the past month. Now that the temperature outside is above freezing, I am vulnerable for interior flooding, mold, mildew and water rescue.