94SLSDOHCUTT94 Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I've finally made up my mind on what I'm going to do about getting a new car. I've decided to keep the Cutt instead of selling it, because I only paid $1200 for it, and that was 3 years ago. I dont need to sell it to get a new one, because the car I found was a 1995 Cadillac Eldorado fully loaded with heated leather seats and a moonroof, with the 275/300 northstar 4.6L V8 with 83,000 miles and get this, it's sitting on factory 18's. The book value on this car nears close to $8000 and I found this one for $5100, clean carfax report showing only one owner, and an immaculate pearl white paintjob. This is one classy looking car. I havent driven it yet so I dont know how it goes down the road but I'm assuming everything is A-OK. Alright, dont get me wrong I love my Cutt and the 3.4 in it(yes.....I love the 3.4)but I just need an upgrade, on the luxury side and the power side. This 4200lb+ car pulls 0-60 in 7.5 seconds, that's one upgrade I dont think I can pass up for the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomFE3 Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 w00t caddies are sweet, v8s rule, good choice, nice price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurneroftheRice Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I want a Caddy ElDorado... It seems like the boss version of the Monte/Lumina 3.4 Think of it, a square-ish 2 door car with a FWD DOHC for a motor how can it not be better? Leather Heated Seats, 270-290hp V8 the only thing its missing is a 5-speed and thats a null spot in a caddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaroonRegal Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Solution number cool: Buy the caddy, swap out the engine, have one damn fast Cutty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimp19 Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Nice choice when I was car shopping a couple months ago I was looking for a 4.6 Eldorado or Seville, a 4th gen F-body or antother Lt1 Caprice. I was also going to sell my Cutty but know I wont get my moneys worth and its much better in the snow then my Firebird. So atleast for now I have 2 cars if I can get $2000 for my Cutty then I'll consider selling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I wanna see pics of the "factory 18's" on a '95 Cadillac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatGoSplat Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Nice car! Although there were no factory 18" wheels. I think you can get aftermarket lookalikes that take a factory center cap though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOut Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 You may want to reconsider the Caddy. The struts on those cars are notorious for wearing out around 100k miles and if it has the active suspension, which it will if its an ETC, the struts alone are $750 a piece, and they CANNOT be swapped out with traditional passive struts. You'll also want to check for the typical 4.6 oil leak, and when the last time the water pump was changed (its a real bitch, no room and it requires a special tool). Aside from that the only other common issue I know about is the vehicle speed sensor which is inside the transmission and likes to break around the 100k interval. Too bad GMF isn't still up and running, it was a terrific resource for Caddy's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94SLSDOHCUTT94 Posted January 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I cant get pics of the car I'm looking at, but I found a '93 with the same rims on it except they dont have the caddi centercaps. They look like the "vogue" rims that came on the newer eldo's http://www.autotrader.com/findacar/inc/vdetail/img_popup.jtmpl?search_type=used&car_id=152810069 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 vogues are tires NOT rims..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94SLSDOHCUTT94 Posted January 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I'll take your word for it just because I had never heard of them before and while I was looking I saw at least 4 98+ eldo's advertising "vogue rims" so I took their word for it. I've never really paid much attention to caddies before just because I thought anything decent was out of my price range, but now once I started looking I realized they are some bad ass caddies out there with low miles and tons of one-owners for practically nothing. $40,000 caddies 8 years ago are now selling for $5-6K. The depreciation on these cars seems to be more than average to me? anything know why or heard anything like this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38662&item=2453411877 Vogues are white wall tires that are normally only put on "pimped" cadillacs. I am just poking fun at ya, caddies are very nice but they depreciate very quickly just like almost all american cars...just a fact of life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatGoSplat Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 $40,000 caddies 8 years ago are now selling for $5-6K. The depreciation on these cars seems to be more than average to me? anything know why or heard anything like this before? That's pretty normal depreciation for an American car. American cars don't hold their value worth crap. 94-96 Impala SS being the exception to the rule. I would never buy an American car brand new, because just wait a year or two and you can buy the same car for half off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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