The good, the bad & the ugly - Daewoo Lanos

[Arimeh]

The bad & ugly - its an old daewoo.

I don't think there is any good...

LOL

[Lisa]

We have a 99 model and it is brilliant. Daewoo is actually affiliated with General Motors and the motors in them are the same as the ones in the Holden Camira.
The main issues that can arise are the timing belt, but that one has just been replaced so it should be good for a long time. We got a quote to have ours done for JIC and with genuine parts and done through Holden it was $700ish. Not too bad really. With Non genuine parts at a regular mechanic it would be much cheaper. I will ask DH when he gets home with the non genuine parts quote was. From memory it was about 1/2 that of the Holden quoted price.
We love our Daewoo because it costs nothing to fill and that lasts forever! $2000 for a 98 with the amount of Kms that one has sounds really good.

My husband is seriously a holden man through & through. Until the Daewoo we'd only ever owned Holdens yet he loves his little Daewoo. We're actually selling ours to my sister & BIL as we have 3 cars and it is the smaller of the 3 so not as useful to us these days.

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Thanks Lisa

[Erin_25]

In 2001 I bought my first car, a Daweoo Lanos for $10,000. I loved that little car, never had a problem with it....perfect for zipping around the city. I also not long after moved back to my parents farm driving 100k (round trip) mostly dirt each day for work and it never skipped a beat.

[Trillian]

The bad & ugly - its an old daewoo.

I don't think there is any good...

LOL

LOL. It's a Daewoo. Nuff said

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LOL. It's a Daewoo. Nuff said

I do have to agree... But after an accident 2 weeks ago, they're without a car, insurance hasn't come through yet & thats the only cheap one around in good condition with rego.

Mum works 5 days a week between about 6 different patholigists, in 3 different towns & lives 40kms out of town.
I think the couch surfing & hitching rides is getting too much for her

She'd rather a crappy car than have to drive 80kms to hand deliver a pack of cigs to dad with either my feral kids, or Grandma's classical music & scary driving

Then later, when they have the cruiser they want, the sister can have the car & everyone's happy! (Look out... the sister at 21 might actually get her L's )

[Trillian]

It would probably be more than fine for what you need it for, but long term I'd steer clear. Mum had a daewoo a few years ago and she said when it was running well it was good, but fixing it and getting spare parts was an expensive nightmare.