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2001 Daewoo Puerto Rico Lanos engine and engine cooling problems

14 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the engine and engine cooling on the 2001 Daewoo Puerto Rico Lanos70% of all complaints for this model year.

14
Engine and Engine Cooling complaints
70%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
1 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • There is an electrical smell when using the heater, the window will not defrost causing the entire car to fog up making visibility impossible especially when it is raining , 4 times the vehicle has filled up with smoke due to the oil filter not functioning correctly, on occasion it looks like the…

    filed Jun 4, 2007

  • Dt: the contact stated the local dealer where the vehicle was purchased refused to do the recall work (04v357000). The manufacturer will only respond by stating to take it back to the dealer the vehicle was purchased from. The contact is trying to get the recall work done on their vehicle.

    filed Aug 21, 2006

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Engine and Engine Cooling problems in other Lanos years

YearReportsShare
2000 Lanos1763%
Lanos engine and engine cooling problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.