1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE review from North America

Not too much major stuff has gone wrong with my car.

Since I had the car the driver side power window motor was slow until one day it stopped working. Very hard to replace. Other motors are starting to slow also.

Alternator went at about 130,000 but that is something you can expect.

Power steering hose started to leak and needed to be replaced (2005)

Most recent was the heater core. The inlet and outlet to the heater core was plastic (stupid design in my mind) so it just had too much and the plastic broke and both hoses fell out. It was time consuming to change not necessarily hard.

Power door locks will unlock themselves at random. Fixed that by putting a switch on the power lock fuse.

That's all the stuff I had to deal with. That's not saying what was replaced before I got it. Like I said nothing really major has gone with it.

I love the 2.4L engine. It is so quick. It has 150 rated horsepower and the V6 has 155 rated horsepower. It makes sense to have the lighter, better gas mileage, peppier 4 cylinder.

I wish it had the 5 speed manual, but what can you do, you don't get a choice with a used car.

I am going to keep this car until the water pump dies. The engineers who designed this engine made the water pump driven by the timing chain so it's a 8-9 hour professional job!

All in all I am very satisfied with this car. I bought it for $2000 in 2003 and it was worth every penny. I'm hoping I can have many more fun miles ahead.