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Car Forum / Oldsmobile Cars / March 2004Farewell to my Aurora...
Last week, when my 97 Aurora was in getting it's THIRD A/C compressor, I got a bad call from the mechanic... The head gasket went bad and the engine was sucking coolant on the #5 cylinder. I *knew* something wasn't right when my coolant went low for no apparent reason and I couldn't see anything wrong externally on the car and no puddles. What was a slow leak had become a *big* leak. The cost to replace the gaskets was US$4400 *minimum*. A new *engine* would have been almost USD$8000!!! The car's KBB low value was US$3500. I think at that point it was a no-brainer to get rid of the thing. Looking back, that car was the biggest LEMON I have ever bought... Here's a list of parts that had to be replaced during the 6 years I owned the car. I've put the cost down where I could remember it. - 1 Water pump - 1 Delco/BOSE stereo USD$1600 - 1 Driver Information Center (that thing that displays your milage, etc) USD$2000 - 2 A/C Compressors USD$2000 (each) - 1 Alternator - 1 Signal indicator switch that sent a short through the car and ended up costing me almost USD$2000 *alone* to fix. I got 1500 for it on trade and bought a Buick Century. A car that has been very highly rated and was *consistantly* held in high favor among local car service shops in my area... Looking back, I could have paid CASH for the Century with what I've paid in *service* for the last few years on the Aurora. I also have a 98 chevy cavalier.. in the 5 years I've owned that I've put all of about 1500 bucks into it.. Definitely a better purchase on my part... Olds... I'm glad you're shutting down. Quality is obviously NOT a priority. You actually spent all that money on getting those things fixed? You spent $1600 dollars on a bose stereo? Are you nutty? You could have gone to best buy and got an after market CD/DVD/GPS system with speakers and subs that would have blown that bose system out of the water. Yes, Oldsmobile made a few lemons here and there, but I think you're parents forgot to add brains to your skull... > Last week, when my 97 Aurora was in getting it's THIRD A/C compressor, > I got a bad call from the mechanic... The head gasket went bad and [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > Olds... I'm glad you're shutting down. Quality is obviously NOT a > priority. > You actually spent all that money on getting those things fixed? You spent > $1600 dollars on a bose stereo? Are you nutty? You could have gone to best > buy and got an after market CD/DVD/GPS system with speakers and subs that > would have blown that bose system out of the water. Well, first.. you smacktard - you can't put just ANYthing into a luxury-class car. You can't replace the stereo with whatever-the-hell-you-want because on the Aurora the stereo is integrated with the Driver Information Center. Secondly, I will admit that some of those were, in fact, warranty replacements - including the stereo... Because you are right.. I'd *never* have paid for that out-of-pocket... Lastly, when you're still paying for the car its a little difficult to decide you're just not going to fix those things.. Otherwise I'd have dumped it long ago. I decided instead to drive it to death after I paid it off - rather than have another car payment. I just hoped 'death' would take a little longer, considering it had the famed "northstar engine" in it... > Yes, Oldsmobile made a few lemons here and there, but I think you're parents > forgot to add brains to your skull... Yea I'm sure you're all that in your blinged-out 76 pinto.... >>Last week, when my 97 Aurora was in getting it's THIRD A/C compressor, >>I got a bad call from the mechanic... The head gasket went bad and [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>Olds... I'm glad you're shutting down. Quality is obviously NOT a >>priority. LMFAO, blinged-out? Nah, I don't think so... I have a 2002 Alero SVT. Worth a lot more than your Aurora brand new when your sh.t wasn't jacked. > > You actually spent all that money on getting those things fixed? You spent > > $1600 dollars on a bose stereo? Are you nutty? You could have gone to best [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > >>Olds... I'm glad you're shutting down. Quality is obviously NOT a > >>priority. > LMFAO, blinged-out? Nah, I don't think so... > > I have a 2002 Alero SVT. Worth a lot more than your Aurora brand new when > your sh.t wasn't jacked. ooooh... An Alero... *bows before your bigness*... not. not just any Alero... an SVT > > LMFAO, blinged-out? Nah, I don't think so... > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > not. >not just any Alero... an SVT So? Might as well have said the Pinto Limited Edition for all I care... :P Olds sucks... I'm glad they're dying... I own a standard issue '99 Alero V6 GL whatever with a lot of options on it. I bought it used because the resale value on GM and other "domestic" cars is so dismal as to make used ones very affordable. They are a poor value new, but a good value used. Just the reverse of a Toyota or Honda, where they are a good value new, but they are so expensive used that they are a poor value there. I am very happy with my Alero, more than I thought I would be when I bought it. Good power, great fuel economy, body seems tight and solid, dash has so many lights it looks like a pinball machine when you start it up at night. If it turns to crap in two more years, so what? Lee Richardson > Olds sucks... I'm glad they're dying... >I bought it used because the resale value on GM and other "domestic" cars is >so dismal as to make used ones very affordable. They are a poor value >new, but a good value used. I think you make an excellent point here. I just bought a Buick century for my wife to use for the kid hauler... It's an 03.. still has much of the 3/36 warranty on it, I extended that to 100k.. and still got away for less than 12k (with trading in my lemon of an Aurora).... Oh well.. lesson learned I suppose... I knew it was a mistake to buy that damn Aurora, but did it anyway. I just came here to vent.. I mean it was such a lemon that it surprised me... The Cavalier I have tho, I bought used and it's continued to be a great car... Very low maintenance... Looking4Chubbies can pop off all he wants - I figure he's just pissed because he couldn't afford a *used* Aurora.. ;) Hey chubby.. Lemme know if this happens to you... Read the part on the Alero... http://showcase.netins.net/web/tiptontempo/Common03/2003-12-20.htm Here's more details: http://www.alero.info/ Yea the Alero is real quality ride... You'd have been better off with the Pinto... I don't understand you're facinations with Pintos. Either you miss this car dearly, or your parents are still driving one. > Hey chubby.. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Yea the Alero is real quality ride... You'd have been better off with > the Pinto... >I don't understand you're facinations with Pintos. Either you miss this car >dearly, or your parents are still driving one. Your mother said she still enjoys hers.... My mother passed away 4 years ago a.shole > >I don't understand you're facinations with Pintos. Either you miss this car > >dearly, or your parents are still driving one. > > Your mother said she still enjoys hers.... > My mother passed away 4 years ago a.shole Pot.. kettle.. black... You need some, They make good popcorn, and are you racist? > > My mother passed away 4 years ago a.shole > > Pot.. kettle.. black... You really *are* a retard, y'know that? I'll translate what I *meant* earlier, smacktard... "*Now* look who's calling who an a.shole. I come here to vent about a shitty car, and all you can do is rag on me? f.ck you. Hope your mom is enjoying her pinto, a.shole." > You need some, They make good popcorn, and are you racist? > >>>My mother passed away 4 years ago a.shole >> >>Pot.. kettle.. black... Welcome to power of the Internet! > You really *are* a retard, y'know that? I'll translate what I *meant* > earlier, smacktard... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >> > >>Pot.. kettle.. black... Whatever... >Welcome to power of the Internet! > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> >> >>Pot.. kettle.. black... exactly.... > Whatever... > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >> >> > >> >>Pot.. kettle.. black... It's killing ya to try to get the last word isn't it? >exactly.... > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> >> >> >> >>Pot.. kettle.. black... hmmmm... no, not really. It's just that I have a lot of free time on my hands and I get to check this froup often. Eventually I won't respond. Hey, how's your Pinto driving? > It's killing ya to try to get the last word isn't it? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >> >> >> > >> >> >>Pot.. kettle.. black... >hmmmm... no, not really. It's just that I have a lot of free time on my >hands That much is painfully obvious. >Eventually I won't respond. I can only hope... >Hey, how's your Pinto driving? Never owned one. But they were kinda an interesting POS in their own right... The ghett0 crowd sure seemed to like blinging those out in their day as well as the Escort later on... > Never owned one. But they were kinda an interesting POS in their own > right... The ghett0 crowd sure seemed to like blinging those out in > their day as well as the Escort later on... LMFAO... My ghetto a.s neighbor has Ford Festiva with a wing on the top and Rims that are worth more than the car itself! > >hmmmm... no, not really. It's just that I have a lot of free time on my > >hands [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > >Hey, how's your Pinto driving?> >> Never owned one. But they were kinda an interesting POS in their own >> right... The ghett0 crowd sure seemed to like blinging those out in >> their day as well as the Escort later on... > >LMFAO... My ghetto a.s neighbor has Ford Festiva with a wing on the top and >Rims that are worth more than the car itself! See?!? That's exactly what I mean.... :D Ok, you made me laugh, you can have the last word
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