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Davidmorelli

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  1. 12 hours ago, Barney Eaton said:

    Seems we forget that almost every cars needs maintenance and things fixed from time to time.    Some owners seem to think their Reatta is a money pit and decide to go with something different,  Of course we

    will never hear from them about the issues they might have with their new choice. 

    One of the scary things about newer cars are all the electronics.  What happens when a vehicle is 10 years old,  lets say you have a 2012 something.   Individual parts are getting unavailable,  the dealer and many parts 

    houses only carry a complete assembly.   Even if the pully on your power steering pump fails,  you end up buying a complete power steering pump.   Same thing with electronics.   What if your "display" fails,  you might as

    well have a 1988-89 Reatta with a CRT because you will be buying a new display assembly.   

    From an economic standpoint,  we would all be better off starting with a 2-4 year old used car and drive it for 2-3 years then do the same thing again.    If we look back over the last 10-15 years.... what vehicles do you thing will become collectable in another 15 (when they are the age of our Reattas)  very few except for some expensive exotics.     On top of that I just paid the insurance on my '11 pick-up and '17 Enclave and the insurance is almost 

    $100 per car per month..... but I can insure my Reatta (with mileage restrictions) for about $200 per year.    Maybe the answer is to own 3-4 Reattas insure them a antiques and rotate driving them to keep the mileage within the

    insurance limits.
     

    Acording to this. Here in our country we have for old cars like Historical licence plates. You make Historical aprovement and after that thez give you special licence plates. You must have car older 30 year. And insurance for this type of car is 1/12 cost of normal price so I pay around 20 usd for car per year. Thats why i drive daily this cars. I hate new cars. Or ok give me 70 000 usd for some cool new car. But still it didnt have this Soul 

  2. Oh wow Okey. Thanks you very much i will buy new maf from rockauto. The oem expensive one. I thing it will be the same reason. Yeah like you say. This cars are so good that they will be in our hearts forever. And yeah I love Reatas too. I live in small country in center of Europe (Czech Republic)  and I didnt have Amy of europeans car. For daily driving i have 1988 Pontiac 6000 STE 2,8 v6. My girl friend have this 1989 Buick Skylark limited. And for weekend driving i have my 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Medallion 318cui V8. And Last car i have is 1989 Ford Broco II 2,9 V6. Here in Europe are this cars so rare. But I love them all and I never sell them. Only buy others and others to colection. 😊😊😊

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  3. Hello, i am new here. But finaly Aster 3 years of searching finaly someone have the same problem like my girlfriends Buick Skylark 1989 3.3. 

    Exactly the same. Cold have no problems, run to operating temp. Turn off and restart and start run like crap and very rich only one possibility is to high rev engine shortly and after that run like no problem until next hot start. Didnt help the ICM? Its the Last thing that i didnt chaged too. Do you have some update? Thank you very much. I didnt have heart to rev engine like that every time. Thanks David. 

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