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02-05-2012, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by BullittSVT
You know if replacement parts are expensive or not on these cars? Curious how much these cars cost to keep running.
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Aside from the suspension being a pile of crap. They are cheap enough if ya do your own work. I've had mine now for over 5 years and still love the car. The only real big things that went were common ****. Throw out bearing, water pump, radiator and the battery. I'm not including brakes, oil changes and normal maintenance tho.
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2004 GTO GMM shifter Spohn stuff, tint and my love......
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02-05-2012, 10:58 AM
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I love it. How does the power feel compare to a fbody with the same mods? My cousin got one right as I graduated hs and they were new enough to to finance and I started looking for one but apparently the only color combo I wanted is extremely rare.
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02-05-2012, 03:50 PM
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^ In the put you seat factor, feels alot more powerful. I love taking rides in my friends goat
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02-10-2012, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Kat
Aside from the suspension being a pile of crap. They are cheap enough if ya do your own work. I've had mine now for over 5 years and still love the car. The only real big things that went were common ****. Throw out bearing, water pump, radiator and the battery. I'm not including brakes, oil changes and normal maintenance tho.
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Don't forget the ****** support bearing on the driveshaft.
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What is a opti?
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02-10-2012, 08:08 AM
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You mean carrier bearing?
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02-10-2012, 02:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kat
Aside from the suspension being a pile of crap. They are cheap enough if ya do your own work. I've had mine now for over 5 years and still love the car. The only real big things that went were common ****. Throw out bearing, water pump, radiator and the battery. I'm not including brakes, oil changes and normal maintenance tho.
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By "suspension being a pile of crap" you mean in design or it wears poorly?
Before I bought my cruze I looked at some used stuff, including GTOs. OP is right, prices are all over the place. But I did not want a high mileage one or an accident case. I ran into that with G8s too. Plus no more Pontiac means less value to me. BTDT, I passed on dead nameplates. After that I ran out of used cars I liked lol.
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop
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02-10-2012, 04:53 PM
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Wears poorly. After about 20k most of it is shot. Especially the struts and shocks. After rebuilding mine, it was a totally different car. And yes I drove the car when when it had less than 5k on it when Alex bought the car new.
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02-10-2012, 10:16 PM
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nice car im jelly...now someone else that laughs at me at red lights with that ls motor
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02-12-2012, 09:39 AM
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nice car
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02-13-2012, 11:03 PM
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Very nice ride! Good luck with it
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