Guest Anonymous Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 This is the GP that I looked at tonight... Very similiar to the one Luke was looking at. I work with the guy that owns it. (actually his daughters) He is asking $1800. It's sitting at a car lot now so I went and looked at it tonight. After letting it sit with the TGP charging it's battery for awhile it started fine. It has 114,000 miles on it. But it's not the original motor. He told me it had a 2.8 but it blew up. I popped the hood and found a 3.1. The motor runs very smooth, no noises, revs easily and comes back to idle without missing a beat. I moved the shifter through the gears and found it goes into gear smoothly and you can hardly feel it. I looked the interior over pretty good also. Everything works the way is should. The headliner looks brand new. The back buckets look like they've never been sat in. Except there are no headrests? The carpet is dirty but I can clean that. No broken or cracked plastic or trim. I went to leave and realized I didn't pull the seat covers back to see what the front seats look like. Drivers side has a tiny tear, maybe 1/2" long, on the side of the thigh bolster. Easy fix. The passenger seat is absolutely perfect. Looks like it was never sat in either. Now for the problems... 1) Heater won't switch from defrost. Probably a vacuum line. Possibly not hooed back up after the engine swap. 2)Temp. and oil lights are on. The oil gage seems to work ok though. Maybe something not hooked up after swap. 3)When you turn the headlights on the dash goes so dim you can't see it. Bad cluster???? 4)There is one spot of rust on the whole body. Just below the gas lid there is a quarter sized hole. I can't figure out how it would get a rust hole in one spot when there is no rust on the whole rest of the body? OK, now it's your turn. What do you think? Ideas on the problems I listed? My g/f already said she wants it but I don't want to rush into it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleetwoodguy79 Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Hell yeah!!! Go for it! Sounds like a good deal to me, especially if most everything is checking out. See if he'd take $1500 for it though, can't hurt to try. Sounds like a couple of things haven't been hooked back up after swapping... should be a somewhat easy fix. Rust under the gas lid could be from prolonged spillage. Had a friend with a cutlass and did kinda the same thing. Go for it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbeast Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 The heater control issue is most likely the vacuum ball located in front of the drivers front tire isn't hooked up or the vacuum line at the tee below the drivers shock tower, just to the lower rear of the cruise control isn't hooked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 All these white grand prix's I don't know man. Seems to be a cult or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeZ34 Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Cult? What cult? There's no cult.. bwahaha Looks nice.. I'm glad to hear that yours turned out better than the one I was looking at. It actually sounds similar to the REALLY nice one that I looked at before, what options does it have? Looks like a good deal though, so you better get it before someone else snatches it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismellrealbad Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 1)that has to be bad vacuum line like brian and others told me about 2)you said the oil gauge seemed to work....did the temp guage work too? If so then fuck it just pull the bulbs out of the oil and temp sockets, unless someone knows why cuz i dont understand, that doesnt makes sense. 3)what kind of dash it digital or analog? im guess its digital, and you mentioned it had a 2.8 at one point which means it must have been an 88 or 89 and SEs for those years got a digital. Is the ENTIRE cluster dimming, like the backlights too or just the LCD portion? If it just the LCD portion i think shawn knows how to fix that. what i did is i just swapped that out of another cluster My car also doesnt have headrests in the back. i actually thought that was how they were suposed to be until i kept seeing all these pics of GPs and cuttys with backseat buckets with headrests and said to myself WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 what options does it have? It's got everything the TGP has except hud. PL, PW, PM, power seats, radio controls on wheel, power sunroof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RedCutlassSL Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 thats a lot it doesn't have that the TGP does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBuick Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 It's got everything the TGP has except hud. PL, PW, PM, power seats, radio controls on wheel, power sunroof So it has nothing. lololol -Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeZ34 Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 what options does it have? It's got everything the TGP has except hud. PL, PW, PM, power seats, radio controls on wheel, power sunroof. Aww your lucky! Did it have that cool 'Performance Sound' system? That was something I had never seen in a GP before. Wasn't much of a improvement in sound when you turned the switch on (turned on door speakers), but it was still pretty sweet. Just more fun options to play with! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBuick Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Why did my post get posted twice, with yours in between?? wtf. -Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeZ34 Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 hahaha I dunno.. but you can delete your own posts though.. Just click that little 'X' icon in the upper right corner of your message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 It's got everything the TGP has except hud. PL, PW, PM, power seats, radio controls on wheel, power sunroof. If you notice there is a period in there after I said no hud. That means end of sentence beginning of another. I understand some people don't use punctuation so they wouldn't know what it meant if they seen it anyway. Let me say it a little clearer. It DOES NOT have HUD. IT DOES HAVE every other option including the performance sound switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RedCutlassSL Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 oops, sorry. My bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 It's ok. I didn't mean to sound so grumpy. I'm just having a bad day and already had a bad night at work. :verymad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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