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  1. I still check in from time to time. My Reatta gets little to no use and I seem to spend more time keeping it up the best I can with my limited budget than I do actually driving it. I have put maybe 20k on the clock since buying it maybe 13 years ago or so. I don’t mind the expense because I derive a lot of pride from it when I do actually drive it. I call it the “Six Million Dollar car” for obvious reasons. This forum is always the first site to pop up when using Google if I am researching an issue or a Reatta related problem so there’s that.
  2. Here is a picture of the bad coil pack. It would appear that one of the connectors broke off. My mechanic said that he tried a new pack with my old/new ICM and that didn’t work so he replaced both. I guess they don’t make ‘em like they used to.
  3. Will look at the parts when I pick up the car to see if there is a date code. He said that one of the coils had failed.
  4. Padgett, I think you were right. I was going from memory but I know that I bought the OEM parts and they were not cheap. I did not have any problems with the car until I did. No codes or check engine light.
  5. About a year and a half ago I got my 1988 out of storage. Before putting it in storage it was having stalling issues, especially when it was real hot, and I read on this site that it could that a failing coil pack/ICM that can cause this. i bought a new set mail order and made sure it was Delco brand. I held on to it in box(s) for a year and when it was time to pull the car out of storage my mechanic replaced them along with some other items. It was still stalling after a bunch of work and another mechanic traced it to a vacuum leak. No problems since then on that front. Anyway, I have had a wonky battery that while newish had been worn down some due to a bad alternator. I replaced the alternator about the same time as the other work and had to replace the battery last week when my car wouldn’t start and the battery wouldn’t even accept a jump or charge. Problem solved I thought......well no. The car still wouldn’t start but I could tell that it certainly wasn’t the battery and I was thinking a bad fuel pump. Had it towed to my mechanic and he checked it out today and said that the problem was the coil pack and ICM. It was not opening one of the injectors he said or maybe it wasn’t getting spark, not sure. I had to think and then remembered I had just replaced those items. He said that he used replacements from Oreilly’s and I mentioned that I had used Delco but he said that he had to replace both to match. Not sure if he thought it through or maybe both were shot but that seems unlikely. I have put less than 2,000 miles on it since getting it out of storage......probably half of that honestly. What are the odds that a brand new Delco coil pack would fail after such a short time? Is it possible? Should I just pay up and forget the whole episode or should I obsess about it endlessly until I forget about it?😀 Maybe someone else here has had a similar experience that they could share. thanks, Luke
  6. I just love the prototype interior, especially the vertical CD player. Funny thing is just a few days ago I was thinking (after gazing at my circa 1985 Boombox with vertical CD player) just how great that would had made the interior look. So futuristic looking especially with the other electronics that the Reatta had......real or imagined.
  7. Here is my TPMS system as noted in my previous post. It is actually mounted below the visor not above.
  8. About 7 or 8 years ago I had a aftermarket TPMS installed. I think the thing cost around $200 with the sensors. It still works to this day but eventually the batteries will go out. It constantly monitors the tire pressure, tire temp, and gives a warning if a tire is low. I had it mounted above the drivers side sun visor.
  9. Well I went the DIY route. I ordered a couple of patches off of eBay and used contact cement to glue them down. Looks pretty good.....I just hope they stay on for a long time. I don’t use the car much so they won’t get too much wear and tear. BTW, the mats were purchased from Lloyd’s Mats if anyone is curious.
  10. Thanks Ronnie. I like your suggestion but I would be too worried about overspray and the paint running. I usually have better results painting something when it is lying flat. The tape thing was just a thought after picking up a large piece that came off and noticed that it was not brittle but bendable like tape.
  11. That is a big help, thanks. I guess next you are also going to tell me that Dubuque isn’t the Capital of Iowa. Or that the sun doesn’t orbit the Earth?
  12. Imagine a strip of that black coating say 6 or 7 inches by about 1/2 inch high no longer there.
  13. Not sure if this is the same as mine but I had issues with mine for years stalling, rough idle, no start, etc. and my mechanic changed out virtually every part imaginable. Turns out it was a vacuum leak at the throttle body I believe it was.
  14. I know that this topic has been covered here before but I still had another question regarding this. I scraped the top part of the front bumper along with a little bit of the black bumper guard recently. I searched the forums and found some good info. I took one guys advise and used 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper and used that to remove the scratches on the chrome part and then polished with wadding cloth. The problem is that when I masked off the lower part a lot of old peeling black paint came with it when removed. So what would had been an easy paint touch-up job became much worse. Truthfully the front bumper was peeling in numerous spots before but now there is a longish strip of that black coating gone. It is not really worth it to me to bring it to a paint shop as it is not really that important as to spend $$ on, but is there any paint that I can use to fill in a largish area that would blend well without spraying it? Maybe also some kind of tape or something that would adhere to the bumper and blend in well and become semi-permanent? Thanks for any tips tips they are much appreciated. Luke
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