What Do You DISLIKE About Your Grand Prix?

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Originally Posted by whitehead

Cheap plastic dash makes lots of noise. Also would have been happy to get a bigger engine in her :th_laugh-lol3: . But hey who wouldnt?

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a bigger engine would be a huge plus i agree!

yea the SE should have been 200hp, the GT being supecharged with maybe more like 260hp, and the GTP with a v8 making 300hpish

Wow guys... there already isn't any space under the hood.

also, guy above me here.... THATS WHAT THE LAST GEN GP WAS!@#

If you want a QUALITY CAR.... thats RWD... with a V8... buy a G8...

stop b!tching about **** you ALREADY KNEW when you bought the damned thing.

and the guy who thinks stock 3800 exhaust sounds bad... LOL thats THE best sounding exhaust for these cars...

I guess I'm just lucky. Got a 2000 Regal with 126,000 miles. Not a single creak in the interior (although it is a bit cheap as well), no leaking rack as i've seen mentioned, no comlaints about the handling (however I have GMPP front and rear sway bars), both heated seats have never failed and they get alot of use, i have had to replace the wheel bearings twice this year alone (mostly the fact that snow plows destroyed most of the roads around here last winter and it they were never repaved). I guess the grand prixs just didnt get as much attention on the assembly line lol.

Things that bother me about this car are the premature failure of lights on the instrument/control panel, The lights for the seat heater controls, A/C, radio display, the shifter lights in the center console, The car is only four years old, I see a lot of people have had similar problems, expenses have been only maintenance, Oil changes, Transmission fluid/filters, plugs/wires, brakes, oh and the battery died in the heat of the 100' summer here in NC. But other than that it has been a great car, no other complaints,

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Originally Posted by matt5112

Wow guys... there already isn't any space under the hood.

also, guy above me here.... THATS WHAT THE LAST GEN GP WAS!@#

If you want a QUALITY CAR.... thats RWD... with a V8... buy a G8...

stop b!tching about **** you ALREADY KNEW when you bought the damned thing.

and the guy who thinks stock 3800 exhaust sounds bad... LOL thats THE best sounding exhaust for these cars...

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EXACTLY to everything Matt Said

And about the exhaust, what do you expect with unequal length exhaust.

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Originally Posted by matt5112

and the guy who thinks stock 3800 exhaust sounds bad... LOL thats THE best sounding exhaust for these cars...

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So true. The stock dual GT/GTP exhaust on a 97-03 car is the best sound you will ever get out of a 3800.

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Originally Posted by DC1263

Things that bother me about this car are the premature failure of lights on the instrument/control panel, The lights for the seat heater controls, A/C, radio display, the shifter lights in the center console, The car is only four years old,

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It must be a 04+ deal for some reason...the only light that ever burned out on my 01 is the fog lamp "on" indicator. I notice a lot of 04+ cars complain about the dash lights.

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Originally Posted by Juanmiguel

1. headlights are useless

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I may be resolving that issue soon. I just bought a set of the aftermarket black painted headlights and a set of Morimoto Mini H1 projectors. Gonna retrofit them soon. Depending on how easy it is I might do that as some side work and sell them.

LOL unless you're pro you will NOT want to build these and sell them... that or you'll end up wanting $500+ a set.

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Originally Posted by matt5112

LOL unless you're pro you will NOT want to build these and sell them... that or you'll end up wanting $500+ a set.

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well it's gonna be almost $400 in parts, so ya. I know these are easy to do on other cars with more space, I did them on a friends Cobalt. Probably gonna be tougher due to space, but it's worth a shot.

Oh its worth it for yourself but to make them will be quite another thing.

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Originally Posted by SuperSport

It must be a 04+ deal for some reason...the only light that ever burned out on my 01 is the fog lamp "on" indicator. I notice a lot of 04+ cars complain about the dash lights.

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I guess so I know my 06 has burned out alot of the instrament lights, 1 piece of interior rattles...right above the guages :th_angry-teeth:

Off road dude,,, Had that same rattle right above my guages. When your driving and it's rattling take a credit card and slide it up into the seam between the upper and lower pieces of the dash where they overlap, see if it goes away, mine did immediately, if it does goes away then take an old credit card and cut a strip a 1/4" or so off the short end and slide it up in there, worked for me, now if I could just get some time to work on the lighting issue.

yeah I was debating of sticking a piece of cardboard in there but just too lazy I guess...haha

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Originally Posted by unzip2000

ys even my 08 gp is low on cold air. my gf complains that my 97 eclipse has way better cold than the 08 gp. and i have never done any service on my 97 eclipse besides cleaning the front ac condenser. should try that out on my gp too.

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May be because the Eclipse hasn't run long enough for the HVAC to fail.

gotta agree the door pannels. i feel the 03 style interior is better than the 04

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Originally Posted by TorqueAutoMotiv

door panels and that cheap trim on them

Window regulators

the fact that you have to drop the cradle even for the most basic of jobs like a oil pan gasket

the auto dimming rearview mirrors are crap im on my third one

and the power steering rack is junk i have yet to see a gp with some miles on it with out a leaking rack

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Got the 94. 3.4 GTP.
Power steering is a POS. Reservoir O-ring had to be doubled up to stop leaks, the PS is noisy and not very powerful. Not like "stiff" but just sluggish.

The interior set-up sucks, the cupholders are under the climate control and the ash tray is akwardly placed.

The center console breaks if you even lok at it wrong (I rigged the thing with wood screws finally)

Everything under the hood is HELL to work on. Gyod, even to replace the battery you have to remove the washer reservoir and that bar.

All that I can live with, but the PS is annoying.