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Looks like they backed it slowly into the garage wall about a thousand times.

Your luck with these deals is legendary. You must be a shrewd negotiator.

2:42 "and someones shooting somebody up over there" Welcome to NH

The loud sound is the wheel hub bearing. Those are common failures on those

I live in Toronto, still see these and Cavaliers and Sunfires up here. Seems the Cavaliers held up better against the rust.

Scotty kilmer is cursing you for calling a chevy reliable xD

I'm getting a slight hoovies garage vibe (no pun intended) from your videos lol. Loving it.

Good morning. That is a cool little car. Your coffee is will never happen in my truck. I don't allow anybody to drink or eat anything at any time. My last truck was 11 years old and the interior looked like it just came off the showroom floor. Good luck with you can.

always loved the rear "skyline" lights on the cobalt coupe!

I’m loving the vlog style videos. Keep the videos coming! Best channel on KZfaq hands down.

Please never stop uploading videos, they are so enjoyable to watch.

Had an '08 Cobalt 5-speed in the same color. Love the Hampton Beach shots...spent quite a bit of time there in my wild-er days.

Hey man sounds like a really efficient beater. My favorite thing to do when buying a used car is cleaning up those front headlights. The difference is night and day.

I love the kind of vids you do keep up the good work

Wow that is a sick ride dude, and quite a lot of power too, even for a sports coupe! Have fun with it!

I think you got a good deal. Honestly, with the dirty seats, the beginning rust( which I hope you will treat), the loud wheel bearings and the bad blower and the dented hood in the front, I would not have wanted to pay a penny more for it. The good points for the car which you mentioned are all good: great gas mileage, good standard transmission, decent power, and good motor! I'm in! Best of luck with this one.

I owned a 2005 Cobalt that I kept for about 10 years. Overall it was a pretty good car. The only issue I had with mine was the HVAC blower motor. I had to have mine replaced twice. The bearings are notorious for going out on them. To further complicate things the motor is encased in a plastic housing which has to be cut to get to it. I had to chuckle a bit when I heard you mention the fan.

Nice ride for for the money! You can test the wheel bearings by cornering. It usually will get louder or quieter when cornering depending on which side is bad.

Keep up the good work. I too had a Cobalt. Miss it dearly. Had to much rust on it. An a lot of kms. Over 300 kms. Very reliable.

I am amazed at all the rust on the Cars in the north east. Wow!!! Great channel. Keep the cool videos coming. Ever see or work on any of the Ford Probes in the north east? They are impossible to find anymore.

omg that was a awesome surprise. I was like I recognize this area....Omg its Hampton beach. I used to go there all the time as a child. I miss those days. Awesome video, keep up the hard work.

ahhh hampton new hampshire, the smell of sewage and deep fried foods!.

Dealio, smashing vid and nice to see around the place. Thanks, ps everything is for sale, could a nice little earner this one.

I used to have a Cobalt Coupe. It was one of the most reliable vehicles I ever owned

Thats a nice car. Watch out for the timing chain, guides, and tensioner which seem to be a common problem with the 2.2 Ecotec. My friend had a Cobalt Sedan with the same engine. It started to possibly develop timing chain issues at 200,000 miles.

You got the auto headlights though! A touch of luxury.

I love the disc golf basket

Good find 👏👏,, rattle can the rust spots with some rust killer/primer and call it done . Plus you got a great deal ,, so good , I think I woulda checked the trunk for a dead body lol

Dang the rust in your area is crazy! I live in Sweden and we use a ton of salt on the roads but rust on newer(ish) cars are pretty rare. Looks like a good find though.

If what Regular Car Review say its true you got such an amazing and economy car

New radio and paint and that is a wicked daily driver 👍😎

We had a 2010 cobalt. It was a good little car, much like your description of this one.

Don't trust the mpg the car tells you, they over estimate it all the time. Check it at the pump for better accuracy. Mine always says 35mpg+ and I never actually get that, I average 33.

No cruise is torture! Nice lil ride.

nice score! I'm a Vibe owner so I'm biased but I feel like the Vibe is a much better car overall.

3:38 the scratch on the right reminds me of somebody flipping the bird lol

0:25 when your about to say city but you remember you live in vermont : )

Pretty good car for the price. Yes that wheel bearing is HOWLING!!

We had that 2.2 Ecotec engine over here in the UK in the Vauxhall/Opel Vectra, Frontera and Omega with 140bhp, good little motor.

Good little car, I had an 07 ion coupe with the same drivetrain. FYI, there is an extended warranty for a fuel tank issue, it's for either leaks at the filler neck or fuel pump (I can't remember).

Nice deal. The blower fan check if it works in the high speed, if yes that can be the resistor pack that controles the speed, if not maybe a fuse or the motor sized, good to get more experience in electrics lol. Takr care

the new daily has hit the channel. Welcome to the cobalt

Similar to my 2006 Cobalt. My 4 door automatic only gets about 22 mpg. Your mpg is impressive. Nixxu seat covers are great in mine.

You make the best vids 👍

Seems like a great find. Can't complain for a thousand bucks.🙂

That’s a Cobalt XFE basically a fuel efficient model. The XFEs all came in manuals with low rolling resistance tires, a taller final-drive ratio (3.74:1) and a fuel sipping engine calibration. It was all designed to get amazing MPG

Not a bad deal for the price! Hopefully you will get some good use out of it. That Vibe, if well maintained, can easily go 300k+ miles with minimal issues because Toyota. Good luck with the Cobalt!

YO I love that license plate on the vibe. Did you purposely get the “666”

Great deal. Bought my daily driver 08 crown vic for $1k too. Cheap cars can be good too. I've been looking in the $5-6k range lately to find something newer and a lot of cars aren't in any better shape than my $1k beater.

"I'm gonna stick with the $1,000. And we settled on that." Hahaha so good. Cobalts def aren't my fav, but good little rigs overall. $100 isn't bad for sure. Main complaints I know of other than cheap and rusty are uncomfortable seats that wear out. My aunt's car all the button faces are worn off too. I don't love the interiors, but it just needs to work right? Really cool though that it's a stick shift and gets such great MPG. Can't really argue with that!

#savethemanuals I'm glad you got a 5 speed car. Plus I actually like the crank windows better than power. Wierd, right,?

HVAC fan issue is likely the blower motor resistor, which should be about $20-50, and may involve splicing 10 or so wires. I replaced the resistor on my '06 GMC Envoy and it restored operation on all 5 speed settings, where previously it had dropped to only operating on settings 1 and 2.

Check the resistor block for the blower motor, chevy blower motor resistors tend to go around 140k miles or so

Awesome find. Hopefully since the Cobalt made the drive home without any issues (minus wheel bearing sound) means it should be a problem free car.

Good choice! Still its sad to see how rusty cars can get on your side. In northern Europe its the same, so much salt and bad roads just eats the cars. I would love to see it getting a little bit refreshed- a little bit of cleaning and visual defects repairing. :) Have a nice day and greetings from Germany!

Nice score! I got a 04 ion and the cobalt and ion are pretty much the same car I'm averaging about 38 mpg but I'm a leadfoot, 2.2 ecotec with a 5 speed manual thing has a aftermarket racing clutch and it's pretty good

That’s a great deal for a car like that. Especially with a standard transmission, the weak point on those is the automatics but with a standard those things are pretty bulletproof. Of course you have the typical New England rust which is to be expected from a lot of cars up here, but I’ve definitely seen a lot worse that one’s not too bad. Congrats!

Congratulations on this find

Wow, that has mileage is impressive!

Traded my 08 Cobalt in on a 2016 Scion iM, had the cobalt nearly 10 years and 148k miles with minimal probs, the transmission started to go out though (automatic), hence why I got rid of it hehe.

In Germany I have never seen this GM Car, but it looks good...Congretulations

Lmao the guy I bought my 88 Camry from had a Cobalt with 2nd and 4th blasted to pieces so he’d just skip 1st to 3rd to 5th. He was like “oh yeah I just dump the clutch in 3rd I don’t even use 1st most of the time”. No wonder I had to replace the clutch on the Camry....

Wheel bearings, exhaust flex joint, and steering rack noises are common on high mileage ones.

You've got yourself a Cobalt XFE. Mr Regular has a great video about them. Hope you can keep it around. One of the least celebrated hyper milers GM ever made.

i owned a El camino that orig came from fla on the atlantic coast that had the roof almost completely rusted off as well the area under the hood like this cobalt .im in the nevada desert so it def came from that salt air

Awesome car, especially fuel mpg👍miss having cheap little car, last sedan was Holden 93 Commodore with V6, I was getting 8lts/100kms with auto transmission. If was to get another small car, it would have to have cruise control n automatic.

Nice cobalt, its hard finding car's nowadays with standard transmissions. The rust really isn't that bad compared to Michigan cars!

I recently bought an '09 Chevy HHR for $800. Needs a bit of work but not too shabby for a first car. 2.2 Ecotec with the automatic, runs and drives great and gets 30 mpg on the highway

Hampton is like 20 min from my house! That water park is a HUGE tourist trap. its like $40 for 3 rides down the slides

I’m a Bostonian and seeing you at Hampton Beach was weird it seems like Vermont is so far away 😂 I’m there all the time working for Carvana delivering cars and I was juuuuust there in Hampton delivering one!

I think the cobalts and related cars are just naturally loud at higher speeds. I used to have a 2004 Cavalier which is built on the same platform and it was the same way on the interstate even after having brand new bearings put in. My girlfriend also has a 2004 Saturn Ion which is also built on the same platform (Delta Platform) And her's is pretty noisy too.

Hey I had to do this in a Pontiac and ford research a blower motor resistor for the cab fan

Come to michigan,cobalts are dirt cheap brother in 2015 i purchased a 08 cobalt 4door 170k=$800bucks ,brand new tires .i replaced the front struts n outter tie rods from Detroit axle for like $160bucks and the wipers needed a fuse .

Back at Troy, NY there was a similar car sitting for half a year, it disappeared one night. I always wondered what happened to it and why it was never fixed .

Cobalts are a solid car I sold my 07 with 285000 miles and the engine and trans was still working perfectly.

Went off to Hampton Beach, eh? Good ole seacoast New Hampshire. Lived on Durham Point for a couple of years. Cobalts are pretty decent. Way better than the later Cavaliers.

Nice. Thanks for the video.

Timken makes the best wheel bearings. And fluid film that underside NOW!!!

lol yea I sorta cringed when you said you wanted to use that big truck as your daily driver, nice to see you considering efficiency now

Most GM cars from 2006-2009 have cheap blower motors that’ll go out a lot. I bought a aura xr and im on my second one

Great deal you got here, Liked, StaySafe

Hey I also bought a Chevy today a Chevrolet Spark 1.2 30,000 miles 2014 3795 pounds I like yours,cheers.

The fanciest feature on those base model cobalts were the aux ports in the stereos hahaha

Love the concept of buying real cheap cars. I have several cars that I bought for $500 or less. The only difference is that mine get home on a flatbed.

Looks the same car as my grand mother has, except her car is a 2010 and automatic. And too bad for the blower that doesn't blow... Is the air conditionning is working ?

Not a bad deal....rust is a given in New England....live in NY and have same issues. Should make a good daily driver!!

Congratulations!! Rock Auto can help you fix the other issues.

My Stepdad was driving a 2007 Chevy Cobalt for the last 6 years or so it was a 4 cylinder stick shift car. He had to replace the engine but besides that he just got rid of it because it was rusting away. And replaced it with a 2015 Chevy Colorado. He loved the car but wanted something nicer.

How do you always find so cheap vehicles because I’ve been looking into buying a Chevy Colorado like yours and that’s how I started following your progress with it because I was looking how good they are

Nice find.

That shooting in the background was probably Scotty Kilmer coming to get you 😂

A manual transmission cobalt FFE gets close to or about 40- 41 miles per gallon!

back in 1/2012, my wife was driving her 09 vibe and I got a 09 cobalt. 2/2020, I still have both vehicles. the vibe has 141k miles and the cobalt has 151k miles. they are cheap to drive. I don't want to get rid of them. my wife is driving a 2020 honda pilot now bought new. lol

Well it's a Chevy Cobalt they've been pretty garbage econo boxes not as bad as the neons

Your new car is not junk. No one should underestimate an econobox. Great gas mileage. Easy to drive and park. When gas goes up eventually, there will be many, including myself, wishing they hadn't bought a luxotank to cruise around in.

My cobalt had 270,000 when I got rid of it. At that point everything started to break

I would reccomend for fuel milage something with a tdi engine, they can get almost 50 on highway, and one would think vw would keep making it for that reason but apperantly not, it is probsbly because of the emissions scandle of the 80s, and a funny thing is my grandpa worked for vw in the 80s😂

Next episode ... I bought a Smart to get groceries. Haha, I kind of like this car. Not much that can break down and probably all easy fixes. I wonder how insurances and taxes work in the US.

What blows my mind is alot of older cars get better mileage. My mom had a Honda crx that got almost 50 MPG.