Some weather and atmospheric conditions can create a chemical fallout. Airborne pollutants can fall upon and attack painted surfaces on the vehicle. This damage can take two forms: blotchy, ring-shaped discolorations, and small, irregular dark spots etched into the paint surface.
Although no defect in the paint job causes this, we will repair, at no charge to the owner, the surfaces of new vehicles damaged by this fallout condition within 12 months or 12,000 miles (20 000 km) of purchase, whichever occurs first.
Chevrolet Cobalt Service & Repair Manual. Relearn
Initialization Sequence
The EBCM performs one initialization
test each ignition cycle. The initialization of the EBCM occurs when the
EBCM detects the there is a minimum of 500 RPM from the ECM by means of
a serial data message and the stop lamp switch is not applied. The initial ...