Money Pit Horror Story: 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP

Bought the car from a dealership in 2012 with 78000 miles and now it has about 92000 miles. Everything pretty much went wrong despite the little I drove it.

I have owned the car for four years and have had close to $20000 worth of work done in terms on parts and labor I spent about $2000 (not including basic maintenance)on my own money in parts and labor not covered by my warranty. This year alone had 8K worth of parts and labor under my warranty. Also, I had $800 since owning the car in deductables. Had a new steering rack, AC unit and water pump put in after a massive coolant leak this year alone. The car is running great now and basically had an entire new front end, supercharger, gaskets and suspension in the past four years among other things but I need to sell it especially before my warranty expires.

As a recent college grad with a part time job as of now, I cannot afford this car anymore especially without a warranty. I had a repair alone that cost almost $4000 which was mainly labor in one shot which was covered by warranty but now that its expiring, I cannot handle the costs anymore. I have student loans to pay off and this car has been nothing but issues in the time I had it. Hoping to sell it soon before anything breaks. It passed inspection and is running fine after my water pump was replaced ($1000) dealership but $100 deductible.

I babied the car despite all of its problems, always used synthetic oil, premium fuel also known as 93 Octane as required, detailed it frequently and waxed once a month. Its a real head turner and looks brand new. Too bad its been nothing but problems.I will never buy a used car over 5 years old again especially with over 60K in miles are bound to have issues.

What do you guys think? Anyone else can relate? Also which site is better to sell Cars.com or Autotrader? Had too many scammers email and text me on Craigslist and refuse to use that site again.

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Damn you unlucky, I mob a 92 towncar. Had a couple sensors fail and needed replacing, other than that no problems. Probably Pontiac's fault. My 96 bonneville was same story, had any problem you can think of til I wrecked the bitch. Fuckin' glad that thing is dead.

>Complains that wear items wear out
>Can't wrench himself on a basic ass 3800 which you can work on blindfolded they're so simple

Sounds like you need to git gud kiddo. I mean seriously I did a water pump in an hour on a 3800 for $60 myself.

My recommendation for your next car: Subaru Forester so you have room to get rammed by your boyfriend.

You're gay as fuck dude

I bought a 21 year old Jag with almost 300,000 km and found it easy to do everything myself-and even then, there wasn't much going wrong outside of me drifting it into a curb. Nu males, I swear.

This, get the forester.

3800 is a pos

should have got the GTO or Fox Body

>3800 is a POS
But you're wrong kiddo

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>implying a stock 3800 isnt a pos
its a pos

just because dingdong in your vid there sunk alot of money into a 3800 doesnt make it a good motor

my ls1 stock would rekt its shit 300rwhp and 400ftlb

That's funny, I had an impala with the 3800. Got the car with 115,000 miles on it, finally sold it with 289,400 on the odo. Auto trans still worked great, motor was going strong and only leaked from the valve covers once which I fixed. Only thing I ever replace was the tensioner pulley, cv axles because the boots were cracking, wheel hubs and tie rods. Beyond basic shit like belts, fluid changes and plugs it never had anything else done. Oh, I had the trans fluid changed and filter changed at 180k because factory fluid.
Friend of mine bought it off of me for $1800. He's put over 20,000 on it so far and all hes done was plugs and new wires, and changed the alternator because the bearing was beginning to make noise.

But user, the LS1 and entire LS series of engines are the best engines ever created, of all time

of all time!!!

The engine is made well, but everything else on the car especially the wheel bearings and gaskets are known to fail.