well so far all I've had ever happen is the shifter interlock broke (under warranty) and there is still that annoying rattle in the steering column that was never fixed while under warranty (partly my fault!)

Other than that, its finally time for tires and brakes (originals still!) now I can finally get rid of those crappy warp-prone brake rotors.

 

You save up lots of dollars on earnings when you use the card for business. Got mine back above 2k again. It will work when I trade my s-10 for a colorado and keep on in the hhr. or get a second HHR (panel) and have 3 vehicles to choose from.

 

That's not to shabby to have that many miles and that's all that you have needed (yeah my experience with domestics is not to good)


Goose

 

yeah its been the most reliable car I've ever owned so far, and about 90% of every other car I've had was Japanese But again, this is also the newest car I've ever had.

 

How many miles would I expect to get out of my HHR? I'll bet my HHR will be gone somewhere in the 60,000 mile range. I have no reason to drive the car into the ground. I'll get rid of it before anything major goes wrong and let someone else worry about all the problems of a high mileage vehicle. I've never owned a vehicle for more than four years and the HHR is definitely not going to be the exception. When a car gets old it's time to buy a brand new one just like anything else in life. If I were to take a guess I don't think the HHR will make it 100,000 miles without some serious problems and major repairs coming up. It's a cheap car so it's not built to the highest last a lifetime quality.

 

We'll get 163,245 miles out of ours.

We aint never had no four banger for any length of time before. Never liked four cylinders, they are only half an engine!

V8's last me ten or so years and a couple hundred thousand. If they have carburetors then a carb rebuild always happens along the way.
V6's varied. I had a '63 Buick with a real out-of-balance v6 for only two years. It was a nice convertible that I put crushed velure in and cruised the college campus!
The Taurus SHO v6 got us twelve years and 160,000 miles.

The voyager mini van with its v6 got 250,00 miles with one four engines and five transmissions Don't ask!

Flat opposed air cooled six cylinders ( Corvairs ) I usually get 60-80-K before a reseal. They do run hot
We got 8,000 miles out of our '05 Vibe then ridded ourselves of its pox for the HHR.

The Buick Rainier has 31,k on it and will go out of factory warranty soon. We purchased the 90,000 mile extended one with it though since it has so much electronics. The navigation console gave out and was replaced by Buick, a two grand operation.

We do 25k-35k a year combined on both cars.

 

In your case, with a military discount and your GM card points, I'd say probably about $16.5K is a good price for auto being the only option. Auto was the only option on Stitch, and before all the bells and whistles I only paid about 16K for it with a GM Employee discount (courtesy of my wife).

As far as longevity ... prior to the HHR I've had a history of picking up end-life junkers and making them last just a little bit longer before scrapping them. The HHR was the first car I ever bought with less than 120K miles on it (at delivery, I recall with perfect clarity, there were exactly 14 miles on it), and I'd anticipate with the quality improvements GM has made in the last five years (which have them close to on par with Toyota in the '80s, BTW), I can probably get a quarter-mill out of Stitch before I need to put him out to pasture (or tub him out and turn him into a drag car. ). I say this based on my prior history with some of my junkers: my '79 Cadillac I got at 149K and nearly got to 200K with only one engine swap; my '86 Cadillac I got at 130K and due mainly to heavy body damage only got about another 30K out of it before the transmission took a crap on me; my '89 Firebird I picked up at 109K, drove it from Michigan to New York, and only had to get rid of it when a piston ring gave out at 125K.

 

I hope to get around 175K before I start pulling it around with a motorhome.Then it's anybody's guess.

 

My wife does not believe me, becouse I usually dont keep cars long, but I love the HHR, hopefully I have it for years and years (for me having a car for five plus years is long) I wish our HHR could be a car that we did not have to drive often, to keep it driving well. We put about 15,000 a year or so.