sehaare
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- Joined
- October 25, 2008
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- City, State
- Chicagoland, IL
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 98XLT 4WD SOHC,94XLT gone
1998 XLT SOHC that I've had since the day it rolled off the showroom floor.
It replaced the 1994 XLT that I bought new. It's got about 160K on it. it Survived: being t-boned (and totaled and then bought back), the last 15 years of Chicagoland Road salt, and a new driver (daughter). I've done 95% of all the maintenance on it from the first day including replacing all the suspension and steering components up front, differential and tranny fluids, coolant flushes, brakes, a front hub. I had the timing belt tensioner recall done on the SOHC back when it first came out and paid to have the rear end differential rebuilt a few years when I was out of town and my daughter needed to commute to college>
I'm only home between jobs for a week and it had a noise up front. so ,I didn't have time to look at it myself and took it in to a local shop that I had used for alignments in the past. They diagnosed the noise as coming from the front differential and wanted just under $600 to look at it further to determine what need to be replaced. So I told them that the car is worth barely more than the $600 and to just leave it as is. It looks like I'll be saying goodbye to an old family friend. Hopefully my daughter can save up enough for another car before this one finally dies.
It replaced the 1994 XLT that I bought new. It's got about 160K on it. it Survived: being t-boned (and totaled and then bought back), the last 15 years of Chicagoland Road salt, and a new driver (daughter). I've done 95% of all the maintenance on it from the first day including replacing all the suspension and steering components up front, differential and tranny fluids, coolant flushes, brakes, a front hub. I had the timing belt tensioner recall done on the SOHC back when it first came out and paid to have the rear end differential rebuilt a few years when I was out of town and my daughter needed to commute to college>
I'm only home between jobs for a week and it had a noise up front. so ,I didn't have time to look at it myself and took it in to a local shop that I had used for alignments in the past. They diagnosed the noise as coming from the front differential and wanted just under $600 to look at it further to determine what need to be replaced. So I told them that the car is worth barely more than the $600 and to just leave it as is. It looks like I'll be saying goodbye to an old family friend. Hopefully my daughter can save up enough for another car before this one finally dies.