Faults:

Front brakes changed every 24,000 miles due to wearing out.

Engine swap at 96,000 miles, and that engine blew a cylinder at 108,000, and then sold it for 350.00.

General Comments:

One of the better cars I've owned, even though it didn't look great. Wish I still had it today. Does anyone know of someone selling one?

Faults:

Just to be fair, I'll first admit that I purchased this car from a little old lady who barely used it.

This model was carbureted... and one of the first problems I noticed shortly after purchase was the huge billowing white clouds the exhaust belched out.

The car began stalling on me repeatedly... so I had the carburetor replaced (upon Chrysler's advice).

The car continued to stall repeatedly, so I had the carburetor checked out again. Chrysler said the fuel lines were mucked up... so they replaced the lines AND the gas tank.

To this day, my dad believes the car sat too long without being run before I purchased it. This may have caused the interior of the gas tank to either rust or corrode, leaving particulates in the tank (therefore gumming up the fuel lines, carburetor, etc...).

General Comments:

Beyond the bad stuff, when this car was running I actually was quite fond of it. It was comfortable. It ran smoothly, and kept up with traffic when it had to.

When my father took it off my hands after I bought my first new car (Honda Civic Hatchback), and after the correct repairs had been made... it actually served him well for a year or so before he unloaded it. But to this day I view it as an unreliable car... that I look back on kind of fondly (how weird is that?).

Faults:

Not too much..

The ignition control unit filed early in it's life. But that was replaced under warranty.

After about 8 years and 100 000km, both ball joints were replaced, brakes on all four corners were redone, and the clutch was replaced. The total bill came to about $1000Can.

We sadly had to pull it off the road after 11 years because the sub-frame was too badly rusted.

General Comments:

We loved this car. It started up every time even in the coldest of weather.

There were a lot of times on cold days when we would have to jump start much newer fuel injected cars.

The car did not owe us a penny. It did what it had to do for much longer than it was probably designed to.