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Kat 02-05-2012 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by BullittSVT (Post 808596)
You know if replacement parts are expensive or not on these cars? Curious how much these cars cost to keep running.

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.

WayFast84 02-05-2012 09:58 AM

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.

BullittSVT 02-05-2012 02:50 PM

^ In the put you seat factor, feels alot more powerful. I love taking rides in my friends goat

spina74 02-10-2012 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Kat (Post 808601)
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.

Don't forget the ****** support bearing on the driveshaft.

sweetbmxrider 02-10-2012 07:08 AM

You mean carrier bearing?

BonzoHansen 02-10-2012 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kat (Post 808601)
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.

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.

Kat 02-10-2012 03:53 PM

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.

townsend 02-10-2012 09:16 PM

nice car im jelly...now someone else that laughs at me at red lights with that ls motor

Fast92RS 02-12-2012 08:39 AM

nice car

T69SS 02-13-2012 10:03 PM

Very nice ride! Good luck with it


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