AWORD ON TIMING BELTS FROM AN AVEO OWNER...NOT FROM ME SO TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT! If you are the owner of a chevy aveo, i can give you some advice on preventing timning belt failure, gm bought timing belts from a unknown junk company in 2003 always buy a GATES timing belt, also buy a aluminum tensioner and pulley and not the factory recomended plastic tensioner/pulley for the timing belt the water pumps should immediately be replaced also with a all aluminum light weight pump with a silver aluminum drive gear, dont buy a water pump with a black or dark steel drive gear, its way to hot and puts more stress on the belt, while aluminum realeases heat faster then plain metal remember, aluminum tensioners/pulleys.all aluminum water pump, gates timing belt. never use or buy a GM power grip fake belt from GM, its not a true GATES belt. buy directly from GATES only. if gates dont have the aluminum tensioners/pulleys, buy a beck amely tensioner, as Jong as its aluminum, plastic tensioners are a very poor choice as tension, because the rubber belt and the pl trys to stick to one another when there is alot of heat. kind of like a weld. this is one mistake by deawoo and GM. when these 1.6 engines get hot they transfer alot of heat threw the water pump, unfortunately some old fasion style water pumps send heat threw the pulleys causing belt failures and people dont even know what it is, its because the black drive gears on the ends which the timing belt turns is melting the belt slowly. buy a all aluminum pump and this will solve that problem. anti-freeze should be green only and not red. fill your aveo 50/50 with green anti-freeze and use the coldest thermostat availible. all timing belts are suppose to last the life of the entire vehicle especailly on a 1.6 engine. follow these steps and the aveo's belts will never break again. GM has hid this from you so you heep getting ripped off and spending thousands on repairs. tic wheel