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Looking at 99 GP with 122 K tonight .... any thoughts.

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Old 07-16-2003, 02:22 PM
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Default Looking at 99 GP with 122 K tonight .... any thoughts.

It has the 3.8 and appears to be a nice car. It would be for my wife as the Bonneville just doesn't do it for her. Anything I should be worried about. THey are asking $5995. Any thoughts on price or potential problems. Any help would be great. Looking after work. thanks
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122k miles is too much on a 99. Leave it be.
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It might be worth it to go and take a look, but thats a lot of miles for a 99

I'd be wary, still, it will give you an idea of what to look for and what to avoid
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See if a maintainence log was kept. If all the regular scheduled maintainence was done it shouldnt be in too horrible a shape.
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I know it'* a lot of miles. I'll take a look. Can't hurt I guess. Thanks.

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Damn my 93 has almost 20k less then that....
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I would avoid this one. Other than the color i had almost the same car and it wasnt that great. The tranny had problems at 70k and it had a lot of other little things in addition to its shoddy build quality.
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That intake manifold will go soon if it hasn't already i bet...
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