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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Timing belts (yes, it has two) are extremely difficult to replace (must remove all gears with the belts from a small cover from below as it has wet belts and go up into a cavity in the head, so lots of special tools needed to lock the cams and crank in place and to get up in there and remove and reinstall the gears and belts). The good news is that GM says it needs replaced only every 150,000 miles.
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Talking to a woman who works at a local Chevy dealer, I said the oil-bathed belt of the 1.0L and 1.2L CSS Prime engines annoys me, from a more conservative perspective which I tended to consider an usual trait among Chevrolet buyers in my country. Then she said Chevy buyers were indeed conservative, based on a preference for analog instrument clusters
From my POV, a more conservative bias tended to revolve around the engines, as GM in Brazil tended to stick with tried and proven engines for a longer time, and was the last to switch from 4-cyl to 3-cyl in the 1.0L engines here.