The engine over heats.
The car used to hesitate when I took it on the highway, but I took it to the dealer and it took 750 dollars to fix it.
The muffler is all rusty and about ready to fall off.
The car is pretty fast but nothing super special.
The seats are pretty comfy.
And the heating and air conditioning keep the at a nice temperature all year round.
The rear tail light is cracked, resulting is moisture in the trunk.
And the fog lights are a pain in the ass to replace.
I've had my 1995 Grand Prix since '97 and have loved every minute of ownership. Although there has been about $2000 worth of repairs over the past 11 years (O2 sensor, gasket, injectors, o-ring, knock sensor, MAP sensor), overall this car has been very reliable. Just a few spots of rust starting to show and the left side muffler (original) has a hole in it. I would absolutely buy another.
I have a 1995 Grand Prix SE with the 3.1L V6 in good shape that I bought used with 120,000 miles on it.
When I first got the car, it was terrible on gas, driving it easy and really trying to get good mileage still gave me just under 17MPG on average. My previous car had been a 1990 Grand Prix SE also with a 3.1L that I also bought used, and I had had a similar problem with that. Diagnostic codes revealed nothing helpful.
After numerous times in the shop and repeatedly getting it back and being told "it's fixed" and having no change, I finally decided to take a pot-shot-in-the-dark and do it myself. I bought a good used coil pack from the junk yard for $20 and put it in, much to my relief, it fixed it. When I realized the same thing seemed to be going on with the '95 GP I decided to gamble on that one too. My $20 gamble paid off again, the mileage immediately jumped from under 17MPG to over 22MPG when driving normally around town, and not flat and level, this town has lots of hills. On the highway I now get 28+MPG if I'm driving it easy.
What I learned from my experiences is that diagnostic codes apparently DO NOT tell it all. Between wasted gas and too many times in several different repair shops and hearing "it's fixed" and paying the bill only to find that nothing was different, I REALLY wish that I had taken the $20 and the time to do it myself and gambled a lot sooner... TWICE!!! I could have saved myself a lot of money... Oh well, live and learn.
BTW, if you've got a heavy foot on the gas pedal, these cars will suck down the gas pretty fast no matter how good it's running.
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