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Default JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

Have picked up a cheap 2014 auto Cruze with 105K, contrary to most advice offered.

Terrible knock from it, haven’t had a chance to put in the air yet.

Is there any specific element to look at, or is it just run-of-the-mill diagnosis?
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Engine knock, suspension knock?

How cheap is cheap CB… Risky investment?? Might strike it lucky and find an old Bintang bogan who’ll buy it for his Mrs and park it in the garage next to his VZ SV6 with HRT seat covers and fake HSV body kit.
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Do you have a good collection of AccaDacca CDs. ?
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For all the Cruze owners out there.



sorry CB.
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Do you have a good collection of AccaDacca CDs. ?
Actually, yes!
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Have picked up a cheap 2014 auto Cruze with 105K, contrary to most advice offered.

Terrible knock from it, haven’t had a chance to put in the air yet.

Is there any specific element to look at, or is it just run-of-the-mill diagnosis?
Have you checked the boot?
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Good point; no!
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Do you have a good collection of AccaDacca CDs. ?
Play them at volume setting 11, problem gone.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

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Engine knock, suspension knock?

How cheap is cheap CB… Risky investment?? Might strike it lucky and find an old Bintang bogan who’ll buy it for his Mrs and park it in the garage next to his VZ SV6 with HRT seat covers and fake HSV body kit.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

$500, five months’ non-concessional registration, clean PPSR, good black leather. Cold AC, a few bruises, but nearly full of petrol too.


No oil on the dipstick, I’m tipping a holed sump or stripped and lost sump plug.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

Worth more in parts, couldn't get a grille or a front bumper for one a few months back, paid $500 for a bumper in the end.
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"No oil on the dipstick, I’m tipping a holed sump or stripped and lost sump plug."

I'm tipping the previous owner had no idea.

I have a son like that. Years he blew the clutch in his 4WD, and I had to go rescue him.
Out of curiosity, pulled the dipstick out and not smidgen of oil on it, I must be not seeing things, did it a few times, same result. He had never checked it in over a year. Told him he as lucky just to blow the clutch and not the engine. How does this happen.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

Previous owner was fully imported, no speak Ingris. So you may be right. They certainly struggled to know the position of the car relative to minor obstacles.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

Seems Ok for what it is.
I don't understand why just because you don't speak our language, you don't know how to park, put oil in an engine, get on a bus, get on a train, buy a ticket.etc etc.
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Default Re: JH Cruze 1.8 Knock

I can only assume that in other countries, the social cachet of car ownership brought with it starry-eyed lackeys hoping to elevate themselves by association. Those people being the ones who checked or repaired stuff…
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