JaredBevisLaw
New member
Hello,
I have been contacted about an issue with one of these 2018 Sonic Turbos. It seems that my potential client bought this vehicle new two years ago. It is still under warranty. She started noticing a power loss and took it a local dealer (not the actual one she bought it from). They have since basically kept it for going on about 90 days now. They have replaced the turbo twice now according the the paperwork given to me, and are not replacing the pistons. It seems whatever is happening is causing oil to get in the turbo and engine and whatever they are doing seems to only be correcting the symptoms and not the cause. This has me wondering if these vehicles have a fundamental failure that they just cannot fix without replacing the entire engine, or something along those lines that would end up being more costly for them to do.
I am working on a letter from my law office to them for them to respond and explain to me the reason she has been without a car for so long and why they can't seem to repair it without something else happening when they test drive it afterwards. But I have found personally that these forums are a great source of knowledge and wanted to see if there were any known issues with these turbo engines in this particular car that would cause them to fail to a point where something along the lines of a complete overhaul would be necessary, or if it was not common at all. Perhaps a manufacturing defect?
Thanks for any knowledge you can share.
I have been contacted about an issue with one of these 2018 Sonic Turbos. It seems that my potential client bought this vehicle new two years ago. It is still under warranty. She started noticing a power loss and took it a local dealer (not the actual one she bought it from). They have since basically kept it for going on about 90 days now. They have replaced the turbo twice now according the the paperwork given to me, and are not replacing the pistons. It seems whatever is happening is causing oil to get in the turbo and engine and whatever they are doing seems to only be correcting the symptoms and not the cause. This has me wondering if these vehicles have a fundamental failure that they just cannot fix without replacing the entire engine, or something along those lines that would end up being more costly for them to do.
I am working on a letter from my law office to them for them to respond and explain to me the reason she has been without a car for so long and why they can't seem to repair it without something else happening when they test drive it afterwards. But I have found personally that these forums are a great source of knowledge and wanted to see if there were any known issues with these turbo engines in this particular car that would cause them to fail to a point where something along the lines of a complete overhaul would be necessary, or if it was not common at all. Perhaps a manufacturing defect?
Thanks for any knowledge you can share.
