Re: Way, way OT, car purchase decision

Posted by Brokenwrench on February 16, 2005 at 04:36:12 from (69.128.199.153):

In Reply to: Way, way OT, car purchase decision posted by Timothee on February 15, 2005 at 19:03:49:

Hello Timothy, I disagree with that theory of buy something new. Don"t matter what the payment is, new cars lose alot of value over the first year. Even what you pay for a low mile lease return is still plenty high, and some of the cheaper models may not be all that reliable 50,000
down the road, and I would guess with the miles you run, you don"t want to go car shopping every
year and a half. Your on the right track with the Bonneville, GM has a proven winner with the 3.8. (and I"m a bit of a Ford fan). I,m also a tranny rebuilder. I"ve worked on some of these older GM fwd"s with way over 300,000 miles on them. People want to fix them because they ride nice and the motors tend to be very long lived.
Admittedly, I"m not overly scared of miles if maintenence has been done on the vehicle, so I would lean toward the 99, or another one that is privately owned, where you can see the maintenence records. The 97 & 98 have the same tranny 4T60E, good tranny especially after 96 when they updated some of the components. The 99
has a 4T65E which is a very similar tranny, but fully computer controlled. Also a good tranny. In 2000/2001 GM made some cost saving changes to a
couple of parts, and that seemed to cause more headaches. So if buying used and purely from a tranny standpoint, I"d stay in the 97-99 area. Now my disclaimer, being a shop owner, is that you can have trouble with any make,model,year vehicle, and my opinion is just that, an opinion.
Hope this helps. Brokenwrench

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