Hey guys, relatively new user here. Name's Gabe.
I've been looking for a GTP for about 3 months. Up here in Maine there aren't too many of them around, especially with the body in decent shape. After a few leads didn't pan out, I finally got my car today. It's a 2002 GTP in black. 130,000 miles. Picked it up for 2600. I had to go all the way to Mass to pick her up. After driving the car 200+ miles home, I'm pretty impressed. Pretty much everything I was hoping it to be and the body seems to be in very good shape.
Here's a picture:
No closeup because shes fairly dirty after driving her home in some snowy conditions...will post more pics soon when weather is nicer. For now she's stock other than a cold air intake that was put on by a previous owner.
She does have a couple of quirks which I can't say I'm surprised with for a 12 year old car. First off the car has a pretty pronounced shaking when on the gas at about 45mph, goes away at 50+, then comes back but not nearly as bad around 70, again only when on the gas. I've searched around a bit and found a few people that described pretty much the exact same issue. Both of the threads I found said that replacing the cv axles were the culprit, so I'm fairly sure that's what I'm dealing with. Was wondering what I should expect for a repair bill on that if I take the car to a shop?
Another thing I noticed after I got the car home was that when starting it up at idle there is a very high pitched whining noise seemingly at random, sounds kind of like a camera flash but not quite as loud, and seems to come from the pulleys/belts but kind of hard to pinpoint. Doesn't happen with any gas. After searching around for this I wasn't as successful in finding results. Any ideas what that might be specifically? It doesn't seem like something that would be a major issue but I'm by no means an expert so..
Also feel free to recommend some visual mods. My first plans there are probably ebay LED tails, and MAYBE projectors as well, unsure if I want smoked or not though. After that, tint. After that..not sure.
Thanks for any help, I plan to be a regular here in the future!
