Hey all
Nothing special, really. I recently became the owner of a fairly clean 2006 GP base. It's had a light tune-up (I'm told) and a new water pump, hoses, tensioner pulley,etc... Carfax records show that the car sat for almost 3 years in Iowa before it was eventually sold and ended up in the hands of a local dealership. The car has been significantly apart and repaired in it's life but there are no records of accidents on file, so I almost wonder if it was purchased running from an auction, fixed and resprayed the original color (Kind of a Champagne Pearl color). I've had to do a lot of things that the guy who reassembled the car never did...like correctly screwing in the dome light/glasses storage assembly, finding the short in the interior lights (pinched positive cable between the bracket and ground) and a few other small things. CD player doesn't work properly and one of the LED's is out. I'll get a newer head unit with bluetooth and all of that eventually. The car needs struts pretty badly - Rock Auto has Monroe strut assemblies with new coil springs for 82 bucks a piece and they look easy to replace so I'll probably do that myself.
Big thing right now is that damn P1811 code. Local trans shop said they could fix it for 1000 or rebuild it for 1800. I did a LOT of online research and before I spend big bucks I'm going to do the TransGo shift kit with a new quality filter, diff lube retainer and Amsoil synthetic. We shall see what happens. The PO told me they dropped the pan and did a filter but I think he's full of poop because the oil doesn't look that fresh to me. Smells okay but it's not "new red" color and they only owned the car for like...a month or two. His kid drove it over the summer, they realized the tranny was not right and decided to get rid of it rather than fix it since his kid was going off to college anyway and it was going to sit around. I traded them a vintage car for it. It was a good trade.
Anyway.. The car is solid and very clean inside so I'm going to dump some money into it and hopefully drive it for a long time. My wife had an 05 G6 that we loved until she wrecked it so I'm glad to be back in the Pontiac fam. Seem to have their own issues but I'm a mechanic anyway (not for a living, I like doing it as a hobby and not having to do it all day every day) so I'm not too worried about most of them.
Also - random but if anyone reads this maybe you can help - Earlier I floored it onto the highway and something was clicking fairly fast up front as I was accelerating...it didn't sound like any kind of detonation I've ever heard...sounded mechanical. Any ideas as to WTF that was? First time I've ever heard it.
Sorry that was long and rambling and all that just for a base model. lol
Nothing special, really. I recently became the owner of a fairly clean 2006 GP base. It's had a light tune-up (I'm told) and a new water pump, hoses, tensioner pulley,etc... Carfax records show that the car sat for almost 3 years in Iowa before it was eventually sold and ended up in the hands of a local dealership. The car has been significantly apart and repaired in it's life but there are no records of accidents on file, so I almost wonder if it was purchased running from an auction, fixed and resprayed the original color (Kind of a Champagne Pearl color). I've had to do a lot of things that the guy who reassembled the car never did...like correctly screwing in the dome light/glasses storage assembly, finding the short in the interior lights (pinched positive cable between the bracket and ground) and a few other small things. CD player doesn't work properly and one of the LED's is out. I'll get a newer head unit with bluetooth and all of that eventually. The car needs struts pretty badly - Rock Auto has Monroe strut assemblies with new coil springs for 82 bucks a piece and they look easy to replace so I'll probably do that myself.
Big thing right now is that damn P1811 code. Local trans shop said they could fix it for 1000 or rebuild it for 1800. I did a LOT of online research and before I spend big bucks I'm going to do the TransGo shift kit with a new quality filter, diff lube retainer and Amsoil synthetic. We shall see what happens. The PO told me they dropped the pan and did a filter but I think he's full of poop because the oil doesn't look that fresh to me. Smells okay but it's not "new red" color and they only owned the car for like...a month or two. His kid drove it over the summer, they realized the tranny was not right and decided to get rid of it rather than fix it since his kid was going off to college anyway and it was going to sit around. I traded them a vintage car for it. It was a good trade.
Anyway.. The car is solid and very clean inside so I'm going to dump some money into it and hopefully drive it for a long time. My wife had an 05 G6 that we loved until she wrecked it so I'm glad to be back in the Pontiac fam. Seem to have their own issues but I'm a mechanic anyway (not for a living, I like doing it as a hobby and not having to do it all day every day) so I'm not too worried about most of them.
Also - random but if anyone reads this maybe you can help - Earlier I floored it onto the highway and something was clicking fairly fast up front as I was accelerating...it didn't sound like any kind of detonation I've ever heard...sounded mechanical. Any ideas as to WTF that was? First time I've ever heard it.
Sorry that was long and rambling and all that just for a base model. lol
