Hello,
I picked up a 2004 Grand Prix GT in 2014. She was kept in a garage by a grandma who drove it to church and to the grocery store, and had less than 65,000 miles and was kept very nice.
In the intervening years she has been a reliable daily runner for my 70 mile round trip commute. I'm pushing 140,000 miles and only major issue I had was a troubling stalling situation on the freeway when the MAP sensor suddenly failed. (I replaced the PCV valve at the time just for good measure)
She needs some TLC now that the winter is (mostly) over in Wisconsin. So I have some planned maintenance and things I want to do.
-Struts and Links
-Fuel Sending unit (currently shows full all the time)
-Noisy wheel bearing
-Brakes - Rotors and Pads
-Coolant Flush
-New Battery cables as mine are rather messed up.
-Detailing. The winter was brutal and the mess is real.
-Replace DS sideview mirror. The one I had was damaged in a parking lot, so I got a gray (my car is silver) one to get through the winter, but I've found a silver one.
I would love to hear suggestions of things I can do to make her really her best for the next few years. This all started because a lot of maintenance came up at once and I started car shopping and honestly, i'm not ready for the expense or the change of life of a new car, I really like my Pontiac and for a few monthly payments that would go to a used G8, SS or Challenger, I could really put some TLC and maybe even improvements to her, but I don't really know where to start in terms of performance. She has a small oil leak but I stay on top of it and I do my changes very regularly. Otherwise she has no major issues but if I can get a bit more growl out of her without too much modification, that would be cool too.
I'm handy enough to do all the above work myself with a bit of help from my dad for the two-person jobs, but I know very little about tuning or modifying a car.
