Faults:
Front coil springs original equipment broke at 200,000 km. Replaced both and replaced the left one again. The right was still broken, but not a problem.
At about the vehicle's 7th year, I made a habit of getting it rust-proofed by Krown each year I owned it. It really did help save the car as the area I lived in was very hard on the car. I also had some yearly touch-up bodywork done to keep the car looking good. I never had it totally painted just touched up. When I sent the car to Car Heaven in August of 2004, it still looked good.
I had some other suspension problems with upper control arm assemblies in the front end and twice replaced the upper ball joints in the rear.
General Comments:
This car was happiest in the highway cruising all day at 120 kilometres an hour! It was responsive and handled very well the whole 10 years I owned it.
I would often get comments on the car and different passengers could not believe the car was the age it was and the kilometers it had on it.
I absolutely loved the car and driving it and it broke me heart when I could no longer keep spending money on it to keep driving it.
The 195 60 R14 tires standard on it were well matched to the car. The only thing I noticed having worn out several sets of tires, was the sensitivity of the car to a tire that wasn't exactly weighted the same. The car would pull one way or another until I put the tire on the back. Then it was fine. Cross rotating the tires on the front was recommended by my mechanic, but when I did, the car simply pulled the other way. Only solution was to put the culprit tire on the back or purchase a new set for the front.