hello

i just thought i would drop in a line since im new here and tell everyone my gackground as far as grand prixs are concerned... i bought a 1998 GP sedan about 5 years ago which had 118k on it..had absolutley no troubles out of it (i only paid 5K for it lol) and then here about a month ago found a black 2005 GP and traded in my old one...needless to say i was sad to see the old one go but i got 3200 for my trade which brought the price of the 05 down to 13000 after i jewed the dealer down to 16000 when he wanted 19000 lmfao.... my new one only has 27k on it also...i love it anyways...hello everyone and i will soon post pix of my old1 and my new one which i am sure to spend more $$$ on lol...peace

Welcome!

Any pics yet?

yeah i just work too much to get on and post them...i will get on it this weekend lol.

Welcome to the club! Cant wait to see pics!

here ya go....

pic of my old 98 gp....




and my new 05.....





sorry so dark...it was late when i got back home lol

...humm now lets see if my sig works.....

..lmao...guess not...i'll make another tomorrow...

slick looking ride...(since I am partial to black cars)

yeah i actually liked the color of my old one better (showed less dirt lol)

Thats a very good bargain for the car and its nice looking but black and white cars always get dirty real quick,(I have a white gp) thats why I wash mine once a week and wax it once a month.

also when you traded in the old gp how many miles was on it and was it a 3800 engine.

nope it had the 3.1L but that son of a gun had over 170K on it and the only things i ever did to it was a new EGR valve and a new water pump...not bad considering i paid 5000 for it at 118K and got 3800 for the trade in at 170K...i basically robbed that car dealership lol..especially since they really only wanted to give me 1900 for the trade...

Thats real good, (good bargain 101)(lol)but tell me when the egr valve and water pump went out what was the symptoms or how the car was acting so when it comes a time to replace a water pump or egr valve, I will know.

Nice!!!

when the EGR went out i had no clue until my check engine light (AKA THE DEVIL)came on. But the water pump..my temp gauge started acting real funny...moving up and down quite a bit...plus u could see the radiator fluid starting to leak a lil...one thing i have noticed is that past 100K the 3.1's "drink" alot more fluids than the 3.8's do ...example: oil, radiator, trans...etc... but the are still very very dependable overall.....

yep I can relate.

how did you get the dealership to drop 3k off the new car and add almost 2k to your trade?

my wife had bought a malibu from them a month b4 and I went in and told them my payment range I wanted and they conformed...I felt like God that day lol.....

Sounds like you got a great deal. Do the '05 have the supercharger, or was that added to the GT's in '06??

I really want the new GXP for my wife and I's family car, since they have 4 doors, and my GTP only has 2. We'll see, that is about 2yrs. down the road yet though. (hopefully)

dunno...i would guess they have a supercharged 3.8 in '05 but im not sure if its a gt or gxp..

The 06 GT's is when they put the supercharger in it.

they had supercharged 3.8's b4 '06 didnt they?

Yes they did have it but in for the 2004 year you had the base model, GT, GTP. For 2005 you had base model, GT, GTP, GXP. Then for 2006 they drop the GTP model and replaced it with the GT because of the GXP model so now its base model, GT, and GXP.

and optional comp G with GT or GXP for 2006 as well.

....confused lol

yes I know I tried.