Officially done, whats my car worth?
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Officially done, whats my car worth?
77,5XXish miles. Needs new fuel pump, needs new water pump.
Immaculate inside and out, monsoon sound, 6-speed, leather, WS6, window sticker still in the car.
Went out to crank it and when I did I looked under the car after running it a few minutes...yep, cooland slowly coursing down the front of the block , why am I not suprised? Anyways, I want out, I want something I can trust, I want something that wont leave me stranded. How much do you guys honestly think I can get for the car after and or before fixing these 2 problems? NADA trade-in is 14.2K and "avg retail" is 16.7K, the tires are ok, but need replacing soon (5-10K miles at the latest prolly). The rest of the car aside from the problems is immaculate and very well cared for/maintained. Sooo...what's she worth?
Immaculate inside and out, monsoon sound, 6-speed, leather, WS6, window sticker still in the car.
Went out to crank it and when I did I looked under the car after running it a few minutes...yep, cooland slowly coursing down the front of the block , why am I not suprised? Anyways, I want out, I want something I can trust, I want something that wont leave me stranded. How much do you guys honestly think I can get for the car after and or before fixing these 2 problems? NADA trade-in is 14.2K and "avg retail" is 16.7K, the tires are ok, but need replacing soon (5-10K miles at the latest prolly). The rest of the car aside from the problems is immaculate and very well cared for/maintained. Sooo...what's she worth?
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Originally Posted by Trust
Nevermind... what Mustang are you getting?
HOWEVER, if someone is ignorant enough to pay 15-16K for an 01 WS6, ill sell it! I know I sure got shafted. GM...NEVER AGAIN!
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Originally Posted by Ericbigmac83
Good luck with the stang, but you do know it will break just like everything else right?
PS. I drove that mustang for about 1/2 year after I went carb and payed a total of $75 maintenance on it I belive. I have had this WS6 for 2 months and my maintenance EASILY tops 1K. Maybe in 2008 GM will have learned how to sling a wrench and build a car. I sure HOPE the new camaro is better or Ford will just bury it with the underpowered mustang...again. If the new Camaro is better, maybe I'll go that route. Until then, if I can find a nice S2K or 350Z or something in my range, im taking it! No more piston slap until full temp and breaking down on the side of the road every day for me!
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#9
Originally Posted by Trust
Do you mind listing the problems you've had with it? Heres mine:
Porous block - had to replace the whole motor.
I win.
(I still have my car, and I love it!)
Porous block - had to replace the whole motor.
I win.
(I still have my car, and I love it!)
IAC
Waterpump
Fuel Pump
TC randomly turns off (did it 2 times?)
This POS is just like every other GM I hear about, nickle and dimes you to death until you either sell it horridly reduced or paste a smile on your face and spout some bullshit about "builds character...been through a lot...put a lot into her and shes worth it"
Oh, I just got rid of my temp tags a couple days ago...
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isnt the waterpumps on LS1s notorious for crapping out anyways? even if the car had an easy life and easy 80k miles, its still gonna go out sooner or later. and its an easy thing to replace.
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Originally Posted by Revelation Z28
isnt the waterpumps on LS1s notorious for crapping out anyways? even if the car had an easy life and easy 80k miles, its still gonna go out sooner or later. and its an easy thing to replace.
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The thing people dont understand is I have 0 brand loyalty. I want what works. If it says S2000 on the side, fine with me, if it says GM, ok, if it says SRT, okay. The point is, if it don't work, I dont want the ****. So far I have heard the S2K's "work" at least on both forums I am on LITERALLY the most prevalent topics are whether NXT or Meguirs is best and other mundane crap. Not "How do I afford to replace the fuel and water pump at once on my ******* birthday?" or "why did my wheelbearings die after 75K miles of easy driving?". This is BS.
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Originally Posted by BLKWS.6
T-tops that CONSTANTLY need silicon on them not to leak
IAC
Waterpump
Fuel Pump
TC randomly turns off (did it 2 times?)
This POS is just like every other GM I hear about, nickle and dimes you to death until you either sell it horridly reduced or paste a smile on your face and spout some bullshit about "builds character...been through a lot...put a lot into her and shes worth it"
Oh, I just got rid of my temp tags a couple days ago...
IAC
Waterpump
Fuel Pump
TC randomly turns off (did it 2 times?)
This POS is just like every other GM I hear about, nickle and dimes you to death until you either sell it horridly reduced or paste a smile on your face and spout some bullshit about "builds character...been through a lot...put a lot into her and shes worth it"
Oh, I just got rid of my temp tags a couple days ago...
Quit crying like a little girl already. Obviously general matinence is the end of the world to you. Do us all a favor, push your car off of a cliff and get bent. It's not our fault you got yourself a lemon car that was obviously beat to **** and not well maintained. You should have done your research and known what to look for.
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Originally Posted by lilbuddy1587
Quit crying like a little girl already. Obviously general matinence is the end of the world.
I checked with a few other LS1 owners. Apparently fuel pumps and water pumps and IAC's and wheel bearings all die easy on these cars. Anyone who says thats "general maintenance" has owned GM too long imho.
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Sounds like everything crapped out thats gonna, car should be good for another 100k now
Its not like the car has 15k on the clock, **** gets old. Although you might have gotten a lil bit of a lemon
Its not like the car has 15k on the clock, **** gets old. Although you might have gotten a lil bit of a lemon
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Originally Posted by BLKWS.6
T-tops that CONSTANTLY need silicon on them not to leak
IAC
Waterpump
Fuel Pump
TC randomly turns off (did it 2 times?)
This POS is just like every other GM I hear about, nickle and dimes you to death until you either sell it horridly reduced or paste a smile on your face and spout some bullshit about "builds character...been through a lot...put a lot into her and shes worth it"
Oh, I just got rid of my temp tags a couple days ago...
IAC
Waterpump
Fuel Pump
TC randomly turns off (did it 2 times?)
This POS is just like every other GM I hear about, nickle and dimes you to death until you either sell it horridly reduced or paste a smile on your face and spout some bullshit about "builds character...been through a lot...put a lot into her and shes worth it"
Oh, I just got rid of my temp tags a couple days ago...
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Originally Posted by Ericbigmac83
Sounds like everything crapped out thats gonna, car should be good for another 100k now
Its not like the car has 15k on the clock, **** gets old. Although you might have gotten a lil bit of a lemon
Its not like the car has 15k on the clock, **** gets old. Although you might have gotten a lil bit of a lemon
#19
Originally Posted by spare tire
If you dont mind me asking do you work on it yourself? If so I find it hard to believe that you put over 1K into your car with just those probs. I have had mine over a year and put 13K on it and the only prob I had with is that the trasmission went out, yes its an A4 and I did have a stall in it. I bought the car knowing that I was gonna do mods to it and that it would break sooner or later. I just dont think you should label all GM's as a pos just cause you had a couple of problems with your car. Thats just my .02 worth
Some stuff I do myself, some I dont. The wheelbearings a friend charged $75 to do...he spend more than that buying a slide-puller. I came out ahead (he works at a dealership). The fuel and waterpumps will be a biggy. $500 for the fuel from GM and $360 from elsewhere. Between college and other things I dont have the time or the place to drop the tank and tend to that so either a friend or someone else will get that chore. The waterpump, god knows thats a bitch. I did it on my 5.0 and it was soooo easy, on this thing HOLY CRAP! tonnes of stuff. Will prolly take half a day to get the radiator and all out and then there is the NIGHTMARE of getting the coolant in without hotpockets. Another LS1tech member almost killed their car doing it, and a mechanic (certified) was the one doing it! its a bitch!
Friend next door owns a 90K miles 00 TA "I used to love it, now its just a pice of ****" -Him
Other friend- "I bought my 01 WS6 and the cam bearings were already copperized and I had a ton of other things to fix"
Other friend- "after overheating it a couple times the mechanic finally got the pockets out of the cooling system, im glad I got the last waterpump, there is a high demand for them"
Me- "its a POS and will soon have all-new moving parts at this rate".
Just take a look at this board. 90% of the posts are "my XXX died".
Go to www.s2kca.com most of their posts are "I love my S, what should I name it?"
I hazard a guess that these 4th gens arent the most reliable things out there...