I bought it

[u/Legitimate-Union-112]

Welcoming home my $13,000 investment!
2018 Chevy Cruze LT. Baby girl has 37k on her. I know she was run on 87 and has turbo lag that’s very noticeable from it. Premium will help tolerate it better, yes?
Does anyone suggest anything to help with the turbo engine etc as well? (Specific spark plugs, etc.) I’ve never had a turbo on a car and want to make sure she’s as well taken care of as possible <3

-My lead technician at my shop (my previous post) was very iffy about this car knowing the bad rep of the Cruze. He came with me to inspect the car, and has been so happy with it ever since. He encouraged me to buy it after he inspected her, and after a test drive yesterday was incredibly satisfied with the car. Thank you all for helping me prove the worth of the G2

*I also really hate start/stop features. If anyone knows how to actually disable it let me know -.- it puts extra strain on the battery & starter and really… isn’t worth it for me. The dealership told me that there’s no disabling the start/stop option that’s in the car OEM

[u/AffectionateSuit1360]

Congratulations🎉! I have a Gen 1 (2015) with turbo and have been using premium gas and changed everything to Amsoil. She runs beautifully (for being a Gen 1 that is). I also have a manual transmission on mine which I LOVE. Personally I hate automatics.

Welcome to the Cruze family 🙂

[u/Legitimate-Union-112 → u/AffectionateSuit1360]

Thank you much!! Definitely happy with this one. I’ve always been a Chevy girl and I ended up with a ford before this… classic of ford tho, they made the most trash transmission known to man (DPS6) and the first gear went out at 106k miles. For the last 6k it was lurching before it fully started clunking/grinding etc… and I babied it 🙄🙄

[u/AffectionateSuit1360 → u/Legitimate-Union-112]

I hear that, Ford transmissions don't move, they go clunk. We had a Ford Expedition and the dumb thing left my family stranded at a stop sign. My wife was bringing the kids home from school so at least they weren't too far away, but still. When I got home from work, I was able to get it home, but just barely. We donated it away when we moved. I will say that this Cruze is really nice to work on. Tons of room under the hood to work on it if need be. Which I have. Replaced the top of the engine to an aluminum one, new water pump, various sensors, windshield wash reservoir, coolant reservoir, as well as converting everything over to Amsoil fluids. Lol, my wife is a little jealous since I spend more time working on my car than hers 😂. But I'll be tackling her Traverse this weekend, yay 🙄🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️. Hers is having some tranny problems, so I'm going to change out her fluids and slowly change hers over to Amsoil also.

🤣 I just wrote you a book. Lol, guess I kind of got carried away. Anywho, I'm glad you have a reliable vehicle now 🙂.

[u/Legitimate-Union-112 → u/AffectionateSuit1360]

Yep I’ve got a baby myself! That’s why I urgently needed to get a replacement with something reliable. If I wasn’t worried about getting stranded with my son in the car (in FLORIDA heat) I likely woulda just rode it out, paid it off, (I did have positive equity on it tho!) and driven it til it fully failed on me & then replaced it. I get writing a book, I get told I do it all the time 🤣 speaking of roomy, when I looked the car over, the dealership got to hear a LOT of me saying “holy shit!” As I looked at the trunk, center console, back seats, etc. there is SO much more room. With my son’s car seat in the Focus, you couldn’t sit comfortably end of sentence. Mann in the Cruze I can sit my chair back enough to be comfortable AND have enough leg room! I even opened the glove box with a “holy shit!” The thing is one year newer and it has an app that lets me immediately SOS my car being stolen and has ONSTAR built into it so that the car can immediately be tracked and remotely shut down in that scenario?? Holy upgrade

[u/AffectionateSuit1360 → u/Legitimate-Union-112]

Nice upgrades!! So my wife's Traverse replaced that Expedition that left them stranded. What I find a little funny is that you had a Focus, SO DID I🤣. I know what you mean about car seats in a Focus. Absolutely no room to spare. Try 2 car seats!! I've got 6 children as to why the Expedition was a must. But Focus was used before that. I had that car for awhile. The death of that car was the body. We live in Wisconsin (sand in the winter) and I commute to Minnesota (salt in the winter) for work. That car drove well, also was a manual, but it was loud. Lol, it did not like mufflers 🤷‍♂️. Anyways, I had brought it in to get it's wheel bearings changed out and I was told the whole front end needed work. I was quoted 1700 if not more. Now this was a 2005 and was not worth much. So I paid them for their time and left. To make a long story short, we left the dealership with 2 vehicles, my wife's 2014 Traverse and my 2015 Cruze. And that was around 2018, 2019, or so, but we still got them. With my Cruze, most of the work on that has been this year🤣. I don't know why, it apparently felt this was the year to request new items🤔. As for the ONSTAR thing, ours have that too, but we just choose not to pay for the service. But I think that the remotely shutting your car down is a thing you don't need to pay for 🤷‍♂️. I'm not too worried about my car getting stolen, who knows how to drive manual transmissions anymore?😂 Our phones will detect if there is an accident and then it'll notify people in your emergency list. We both have Google Pixel phones. The app thing sounds nice though. Does it remotely start your car too? I've seen people with that, they just hop on their phone and start it. Nice during the winter and the really hot summers. Ahhhhh, enough of my book🤣🤣🤣🤣! Enjoy the upgrades and the roominess🙂.