If it has a plastic divider in the middle of the rear bench, it’s an 82.These plastic things were bad enough in the X and A bodies front seats, but in the back seat, it was far worse.I had completely forgotten about those dividers. And while things may have improved somewhat since ’82, and the car wasn’t terrible, it very much left me with the impression that no one at GM sweated any details at all. The engine was not responsive – like it had a very heavy flywheel to counter vibration. Ma had a ’75 Skyhawk and Buick dealer was like ‘get this outta here’ when brought in for a minor recall in ’77.Not so much that the 82s were lame, but then GM insisted on keeping the J’s the same for eons, acting as if ‘we know better’.I think you may be overstating it slightly.
Nor was this a case of GM spending lots of money to endow the J-car with unique engineering features that really went nowhere, much like the Oldsmobile Toronado. ).I bought a new ’84 Cavalier (Type 10 Hatchback). That said, I think that every new generation of small car that comes out of Lordstown since the 1990’s has gotten better. The carbureted 4 refused to start, so my wife had to drive me in the fuel-injected Volvo (which started without a hiccup) to the nearest Metro stop, from which I was able to reach the airport.I considered the J-cars as a used car in the early 1990s.
Yet, looking back on my Mom’s Type 10 coupe, it honestly wasn’t as bad as I remember it then. All Rights Reserved. Same problem and yet another service bulletin for an open sensor in the Passlock system that was refusing to release the key.10 years later and it’s finally working as planned. Surprisingly, well only to GM and the service department at the dealership, an aftermarket set of lifters totally cured the ticking, and he drove that truck until 2014, when he finally traded it for a Ram 1500 4×4.A friend of mine has rebuilt many 5.3s and other GM truck motors and the main problems he sees with them are bad intake manifolds and intake gaskets. I don’t know why former owners of domestic 80’s cars can remember every squeek and problem–I’ve been in the parts end of the business since that time and we heard owners of imports complain about their cars just as much as Detroit cars only they would always say “best car I’ve ever owned though”To some extent, yeah, people remembering those Accords as “great” have selective memory.PhilL and others… My memories align with yours. It could have- and really should have- been so much better.A once common sight as a Vauxhall on UK roads.The SRI 130 was popular with boy racers and was often wrapped round trees,the rust monster and wear and tear saw most Cavaliers off.Ahhhhh,the Chevy Cavalier. But that was a very reliable, durable little car. GM exploited customers’ loyalty to dump its lazily designed, half-assed junk on them, which is not a very nice way to behave.I rented a late-model Cavalier in 2005 when my 2004 Accent was killed in a flood. I helped him tear two of them apart recently and both looked fantastic inside.

The mystery is why they gyrated so wildly between botched overreach (Corvair, Vega) and phoned-in afterthought (Chevette). Eat it clowns. Year in, year out. In the mid 90s, they moved into an upscale, beautiful building and have remained successful to this day. It was far “too big” for an average european consumer. Make sure to put a bowtie in the middle of that one and a wreath & crest in that one so that no one gets confused.The dual headlights of the first Cavaliers are worth noting in the context of the Cimarron fiasco. Weird & WackyWe use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. But I could remove the key driving down the road. I did not stop him from buying another one, however.I never knew Cavaliers were intended to be anything other than cheap fleet type cars.Every other kid drove those old square type Cavaliers when I was in HS and that’s just what they’ve always been to me, cheap junk cars.I know, hindsight is 20/20 vision, but one still is astonished every time to hear such accounts. I was still a little surprised that despite many years of other makers’ improvements, they were ALL Hondas & Toyotas.LOL. There were a number of things wrong with the car and I eventually grew to hate being under the hood of that thing. The feds made the automakers add them in the early 80s to keep someone from sitting in the center position if no seat belts were present. The K-Car with all its lack of refinement compared to the imports, was still a better car than the J-bodies, even if the Cavaliers seemed better equipped.I’ll take a K-Car any day, but isn’t it funny that the Cavalier lasted so long? There was probably some arrogance involved. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website. The washer fluid lines never worked right. This sin seems particularly unforgivable, as GM must have been finishing its development as it was clear they had screwed up the launch of the Citation. My experience with the Cavalier is pretty much as you described it in the article.

To keep peace in the family, she bought the J2000; a decision that she regrets to this day. She sold it with about 140,000 miles on it and still comments on that car and its greatness. They actually started off with 2.84 gearing and then switched to a 3.18 and a 3.43 for some cars. They’re going by reliability statistics, which of course are inexact. Although torque got a little bump, horsepower stayed the same, at 88.


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