1985 Plymouth Voyager L review from North America

Carburetor failed 3 years ago and I had to replace it. Nobody has been able to set it right, but it still runs strong. The car stutters a bit when idle and it will sometimes turn off when not warmed up. This is bad because the car will want to turn off in the middle of a turn or while braking. It's not the car's fault, it's just that the carburetor was not installed right.

Clutch has been replaced twice, once every two years. It shouldn't die so often, but nobody can install the clutch right either (there aren't that many manual minivans)

Front engine mount arm had a crack, left engine mount got worn out due to the shaking caused by the front mount, this caused the car to shake a lot, making things inside the car rattle, such as the windows. I replaced the mounts rather cheaply due to the fact that I did the work myself.

The cloth on the ceiling got loose and started to sag, I ripped it off and painted the ceiling. I know that that's cheap, but I'm not big on unnecessary money spending.

Blue synthetic leather has started to crack on the bottom sides of the front seats.

Exhaust has a hole that needs patching, this makes the van sound very loud.

Some rust on roof and wheel wells, this can be easily fixed, but I still haven't gotten around to it.

Van is old so it burns some oil, it smokes a little, but it still passes the emission tests.

This car is very reliable despite everything that went wrong in it. The van is extremely dependable. I still own it today.

The only thing that I don't like about the van is that the carburetor and clutch are never installed quite right, but that's not the car's fault. This van has never given up on me.

The speedometer says that the car can go up to 85mph. I have taken it on the highway many times since I got it and it does indeed get to 85 and sometimes the needle gets past 85 and starts getting real close the the bottom of the console. It's fun to pass people in the highway in a packed minivan that looks like it might blow up any minute.

I have driven the van from Maryland to Montreal and Quebec in Canada. I have also taken the van down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Those are both 10 hour drives at least. My van didn't complain one bit, it drove strong the whole trip.

The van gets between 25-30mpg in highway, and 16-20 in city. That's mot bad for a car that is 18 years old.

The van can pick up at a decent speed, I've raced automatic versions of this van and my van handles itself very well, although it is not meant for racing it still wins.

The van has the original engine and I go it with 145,000 miles in it when it was 11 years old. It now has a proud 295,000 miles and it has not had any engine work done in it other than carburetor and the usual services.

I haven't found any other vans that are manual, such as mines. I guess this makes my van special, or me special, I don't know, but what I do know, is that the van will continue to be under my name for years to come. I'm proud of having an ugly, rusted and loud car because this car takes me where I want to go, when I want to go, and it never lets me down. The only times it fails is when I mess up and don't take care of it.

The 1985 Plymouth Voyager is an ugly duckling. It's a comfortable ride, but definitly not silent. It is a very reliable 7 passenger minivan, and it is also very simple to work on. The engine is a 4 cylinder 2.2 liter, but the manual transmission makes it feel more powerful. I think that my van is still alive due to it's simplicity. It's a simple engine with a simple transmission.

I owned an 1987, 4 cylinder 3.0 liter automatic version of this car and it failed because of the engine (a Mitsubishi engine) that came standards in those vans, also the transmission was starting to die.