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Both your cars look nice! Soft Ride yours is incredible. and OldsManiac It'* always cool to see someone personalize their car.
Here'* my 2003. 261,000 miles and runs like new. The engine that is, the trans is just starting to slip a little.
Both your cars look nice! Soft Ride yours is incredible. and OldsManiac It'* always cool to see someone personalize their car.
Here'* my 2003. 261,000 miles and runs like new. The engine that is, the trans is just starting to slip a little.
lol hats about he nicest way anyone’* agreed or said my car isn’t nice Lol
but nice car, luckily you have a 2003 so the fact it took so long to get slipping makes sense because of the upgrades the 4t65e had in that year. Keep your car running till the end of time, your wallet and heart will be satisfied. If not for the fact we can still find park avenues rather easily for cheap, I would be pouring money into the rust on the body. I’m going to get a nice park avenue with no rust or simple rust issues and never winter use it.
I see you fixed your battery post situation, good man. That was the first thing I did to my car. Only because my battery followed me from my 98 base park avenue which I already converted, and I couldn’t fit the factory adapters over the top posts to screw into the side. Lol
bless her heart, she went too soon to the scrapyard in the sky. Got her for 450 and fixed her for less than 50(basic maintenance and spark plug wires in wrong order), and a magnet for the fuel gauge. Little did I know an impulse bid would start me on a rabbit hole path. Thank goodness it did. But 4 days before I was getting tired put on, it had a blowout and pulled me into a culvert at 55 in January 2019. The amount of physical work was... too much.well over 2k for every single suspension component and no telling what else.
but if it pleases y’all to know, 98 park avenue airbags smell like lutefisk
once these cars are rare, more so than currently, they will be relics of a forgone era in the minds of most (of those that don’t think so) but we will enjoy a low cost of ownership for many years in a smooth and pleasant riding and spacious experience
an experience, just what owning a park avenue or even a lesabre is like. That’* something I personally can’t say any car newer than 2001 has given me from drivinf(2001 olds aurora). My 2006 Hyundai is nicely built and cheap to own but... it’* just a to and from drive.
if you ever want to experience life as it was intended, get yourself a 2004/2005 ultras drivetrain or just another park avenue from those 2 years with a gen v supercharger. Hell,even 97-03 wouldn’t be bad just don’t count on it for the same level you do of your 03.
the only cars that can touch a park avenue for driving is a Lincoln town car till 2011 and a Chrysler 300 from god knows what years
the Lincoln.. isn’t the same, it’* for a brand of experiences that a roadmaster owner wants or desires. Full frame, towing maybe, shear off the line power, etc. a Chrysler 300, we won’t be talking about that
Thanks, I try to keep it clean. It'* still driving well after all these years & batteries are still working ok. Am at 9 years I think on the Odyssey.
Yours is much better than many I've seen. I remember once at a gas station the guy next to me also had a PA & when I lifted my hood to check the oil his jaw dropped.
Hey bud he says, how did you keep it so clean under the hood? My reply was hard detail work, power washing & LPS Pre-solve de-greaser. His had never ever been cleaned.
The wiper is a bit bent but still swipes ok too.
on the original subject, my agm northstar is on year 3 or 4, I’ve discharged it damn nearly complete 3 times and deep discharge about 4 and it still gives me the cranking ability in -30 degrees.
I just notice that the capacity seems to have taken a hit which is fair and I don’t complain since I’ve been a little harsh
it’* survived a frontal collision if you count my eating a culvert at speed early in its life (year 1, followed me from 2001 olds)
Hey OldsManiac, I was dead serious about liking what you did under your hood! I love it when people put their own touch to their car. I used to do stuff like you have on your car when I was much younger, (I'm 61) I'd find ways to jazz it up and paint stuff.
It'* interesting you mentioning my battery terminals, they were like that when I bought it and don't have any adapters on it. wonder if it came from the factory like that. the guy who had it before me always took it to the dealer for any work it needed. maybe they did it for him.
Alas, I have 3 pretty big rust holes underneath. 1 right behind each front wheel and 1 on the frame where the gas filler tube goes in. I'm waiting for my frame to break.
Hey OldsManiac, I was dead serious about liking what you did under your hood! I love it when people put their own touch to their car. I used to do stuff like you have on your car when I was much younger, (I'm 61) I'd find ways to jazz it up and paint stuff.
It'* interesting you mentioning my battery terminals, they were like that when I bought it and don't have any adapters on it. wonder if it came from the factory like that. the guy who had it before me always took it to the dealer for any work it needed. maybe they did it for him.
Alas, I have 3 pretty big rust holes underneath. 1 right behind each front wheel and 1 on the frame where the gas filler tube goes in. I'm waiting for my frame to break.
yeah someome converted it to top post. The original was a line that had two lugs that connects to adapters that were then screwed into the side. The idea was a simple cable from starter to battery and then a smaller portion looped back to the positive on the fuse box behind it. Then if you needed a cable replaced you kept the adapter and replaced the cable but I did the opposite threw away the adapters and just attached the lugs to the posts I have and then to a top post battery. Someone did yours with either new cables or professional Finish and cover on your positive so good work. Probably needed a cable early in life and locally sourced or found cables on the parts shelf that fit just as good.
yeah someome converted it to top post. The original was a line that had two lugs that connects to adapters that were then screwed into the side. The idea was a simple cable from starter to battery and then a smaller portion looped back to the positive on the fuse box behind it. Then if you needed a cable replaced you kept the adapter and replaced the cable but I did the opposite threw away the adapters and just attached the lugs to the posts I have and then to a top post battery. Someone did yours with either new cables or professional Finish and cover on your positive so good work. Probably needed a cable early in life and locally sourced or found cables on the parts shelf that fit just as good.
If you check out the "What This Fits," at https://www.wholesalegmpartsonline.c.../25695520.html the silly combined with even sillier lock nuts on the Park Avenue battery cable transition/junction blocks appear to be exclusive to only 1997-2002 Park Avenues. If you know otherwise please advise, and on that note we're going to make it a point to stop by my local GM dealer to confirm that it'* accurate info. So the car belonging to TommyB may have factory battery cables that way from the factory. (Update, at least on Autozone and O'reilly Auto the battery search provides mostly BCI 34 top post batteries for a 2003 Park Avenue with the exception of 34/78)
On our 2001 we're currently upgrading to an Odyssey Extreme 34/78, so it would be nice to know if that factory cable 3/8" lug/ring would fit fine on a marine top post battery terminal with a 5/16" stud. This seems to be the best/only option/compromise if you want a negative terminal that'* actually tailored to a negative top post. Have you guys/gals put the battery cable 3/8" lug/ring on a 5/16" stud without any resistance/shorting issues or second thoughts?
Sounds to me that any side terminal post battery group 78 should fit in, and then you should be able to find 800CCA +
The longer lasting deep cycles batteries today are now called AGM. Absorb glass mat, perform better in the cold last longer, & better sealed, so you wont get any terminal corrosion.
AGM = look for. Napa, AGM Exide AGM ,& the best Odyssey (which is virgin lead) are tough to beat.
How much more do the AGM batteries cost?
Should get a new battery for my '13 cruze soon. It still has the original battery.
Odyssey is the best and most $ due to virgin lead & Also NorthStar are up there in $ too.
East Pen/Dekka, Exide Edge Napa and so many re-branded names, cant think of them all.
The round type known as Optima AGM stay away from them. They do not have the same amount of plates or good volume, compared to the square types of AGM'*
What battery group number is in your 13 Cruise now?
