Deaddog Saloon
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ahtoxa
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So I'm in a rental Chevy Captiva, which GM is paying for. That's the good part.
The bad: dealership is still confirming the diagnosis. No word yet on part availability.
The UGLY: Do not, under any circumstance ever rent a Chevy Captiva. It's fleet-only for GM and for a good reason. Terrible seating (my back actually hurts now after 25 minute drive), terrible interior, terrible transmission and terrible engine. It's a 2.4 and is completely gutless in a 3800 pound(!) CUV. The trans is far worse than most autos and doesn't know what it's doing.
TTAC review I read, stated that when they rented it, they got 200 miles from roughly 13 gallons of gas. That's horrendous; I might as well drive a Silverado to Chicago.
The horrible economy was attributed to lack of power, forcing the engine to downshift up to 2 gears, just to stay at 80mph. Sadly, most of my drive will be at 80mph.
Oh well, at least I have a car so I can get to the office. They didn't have any other cars but the Impala and the Captiva on the lot, and now that I checked, I'd been better off with the Impala, as it gets better rated highway gas mileage.
P.S. I got 26 mpg driving it in almost ideal conditions on the way home - 55 mph country road with a light ever few miles. Accelerated gently.
The bad: dealership is still confirming the diagnosis. No word yet on part availability.
The UGLY: Do not, under any circumstance ever rent a Chevy Captiva. It's fleet-only for GM and for a good reason. Terrible seating (my back actually hurts now after 25 minute drive), terrible interior, terrible transmission and terrible engine. It's a 2.4 and is completely gutless in a 3800 pound(!) CUV. The trans is far worse than most autos and doesn't know what it's doing.
TTAC review I read, stated that when they rented it, they got 200 miles from roughly 13 gallons of gas. That's horrendous; I might as well drive a Silverado to Chicago.
The horrible economy was attributed to lack of power, forcing the engine to downshift up to 2 gears, just to stay at 80mph. Sadly, most of my drive will be at 80mph.
Oh well, at least I have a car so I can get to the office. They didn't have any other cars but the Impala and the Captiva on the lot, and now that I checked, I'd been better off with the Impala, as it gets better rated highway gas mileage.
P.S. I got 26 mpg driving it in almost ideal conditions on the way home - 55 mph country road with a light ever few miles. Accelerated gently.
ChrisJ
Active member
Hmm, I'd swear the 2.4 is the same thing that my mother's 2013 Equinox has and that didn't seem bad at all to me, in fact it's faster than her 4.3 2001 Blazer was.
Maybe there are different 2.4s?
ahtoxa
New member
Either way, the seating position is terrible with a lumbar that's way too aggressive and non-adjustable. There's no way, no way at all that I can spend 2000 miles in that seat by Tuesday.
Either way, I'm done bitching. Just waiting to see what the advisor says and I hope that I'll be in my car tonight. That'd be best case scenario.
Either way, I'm done bitching. Just waiting to see what the advisor says and I hope that I'll be in my car tonight. That'd be best case scenario.
ChrisJ
Active member
Cannot comment on how weird it is without seeing historical data on the subject. I've got a feeling out of all of the 1.4's in the world there are very few and if that is the case yea, it's pretty weird.
