1993 Pontiac Grand Am SE 2.3 Quad 4 from North America
Summary:
Fun to drive, yet unreliable
Faults:
The car eats through brakes, as I've replaced them every 18 months.
The driver's side front power window started sticking at 80,000 miles.
Stalling problems twice.
Short somewhere that causes the battery gauge to go all over the place and also the fuse for the horn to keep breaking.
Replaced the solenoid switch January 2001 ($300 - from what the dealer told me this is common).
General Comments:
Some parts of the car are put together well -
- for example, I replaced the original muffler at 97,000 miles and the suspension still shows very few signs of wear.
The car is fun to drive and handles/responds fairly well, but hasn't convinced me that I made the right decision (I'm switching back to a Ford).
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Don't Know
Review Date: 4th June, 2001
3rd Dec 2002, 05:27
I have a 1993 Grand Am, SE two door coupe. And I also had a monster of a hesitation problem. The car would run fine when I initially started it, but after it warmed up it would hesitate badly, to the point I thought I might get hit at a traffic light or two.
Turns out after some testing, that the wire assembly that runs from wherever to the spark plugs had reached the end of their life. It's a harness type setup so I had to replace all of them, but they weren't fully transmitting the electric signal from whatever controls them to the spark plugs to spark. And when they were they were doing it intermittently so the cylinders weren't sparking in the right order.
I forget how much it was to replace them, and like I said the shop that I did it at (which I trust) said cause of design changes in the 93-95 model years, they're replaced as a one piece harness. After I replaced them however, my hesitation problem has gone away and not come back since.
Bello
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