Chevrolet Spark build quality - rust on a 2010 car!

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Evening all, just hired a 2010 Chevrolet Spark while I get my car sorted and was surprised as we were doing the pre-hire damage report to find no fewer than 6 rust spots on the car, 2 of which were just bubbling up with no obvious damage from stone chips.

I accept its a cheap little car but really rust within 9 months of first registration and within just 7000 miles? that is truely shocking!

I would say treat this as a warning, but I'm fairly certain that nobody who has eyes that work would buy one with their own cash anyway:

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Oh and I did ask if I could have something, well anything else, but being 23 Enterprise will not let me have anything past a class B and only had this in anyway

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Chuckle Brother said:

Well thats a Lie, i hired whilst my A4 was in the garage, at there expense i might add, they did a rubbish paint job twice in a row after an accident that wasn"t my fault. 23 years old and i had a 520d, from Enterprise!!

I've been given a few nice cars from them as insurance cars and Vauxhall Courtesy cars, but retail they won't give you anything past a class B and charge £30 EXTRA now if your under 25!

It's a rebadged dawoo thing, bloody awful, feels like it's going to blow over/fall apart, rattles and shakes and is just bloody awful!

But RUST?

[Petrolhead_Rich]

60 said:

Petrolhead_Rich said:

I've been given a few nice cars from them as insurance cars and Vauxhall Courtesy cars, but retail they won't give you anything past a class B and charge £30 EXTRA now if your under 25!:

Really? I'm 21 and recently had a 2008 golf gti (the 197ish bhp one) whilst my car was repaired (under insurance).

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Angry Sheep said:

I reckon it could be fun on decent roads - in a hire car kind of way. Wouldn't buy one myself but can see it being fun bouncing off the rev limiter on a nice B-road.

Kinda poor that it's going rusty though!

Its scary, its 4' high and 3' wide with crazy understeer, oh and it's very windy today

Only smithering of power is between 5 and 7k so lots of changing gear

and the radio doesn't in any way cover the noise of the car at motorway speeds....

The astra, corsa and fiesta I had were fun in a "drive it like it's stolen" way but this is just dreadful and scary

[Petrolhead_Rich]

r11co said:

A neighbour of my father is a merchant seaman who visited the Daewoo factory in Korea where the Spark is now made.

He said at one end of the factory is a steel recycling plant. Essentially the quality of the steel that comprises the cars' body panels depends entirely on what rubbish (literally) goes into that plant in any one day....!

That explains alot, I think they must have been melting down the inside of crisp packets on this particular day

[Petrolhead_Rich]

jsg612 said:

If it's a hire car, it may have been crashed and badly repaired?

Awful looking car though!

7000 miles on the clock, rust was bubbling up in the middle of perfect panel's and all around the car, not in a place you would expect from crash damage!