2005 Buick Lesabre

[RDR]

I'm running 38 in the front and 36 in the back. I'll mess with the TPM when I get back. I didn't bring my laptop. I need to update the software to clear anything. It is only good up to 2002 OBD II vehicles.

[cvcman]

ive had a 1994 Lesabre, 1998 Bonneville ( 3.8 motor ), 1999 park Ave and now a 2000 Lsabre Limited....the first 3 I put over 200k miles on with very little done other than tires brakes etc...the 99 had about 180k and I needed to replace the plastic intake...100.00 at Advanced Auto for the redesigned model...I did the repair in my garage in about 2 hrs total...very easy..
The 2000 I have now I bought at a dealer the day it was traded..it had 2k miles on it and never sen snow..It has about 70k on it now...its loaded , heated leather etc...these are great cars and run forever...my 98 Bonneville I sold with 242k on it for $2000.00 and he drove it to 300k and sold it for 600.00

[RDR]

Cars up there have a lot harder life than down here. When I'm in Naples for 2 weeks I get about 2 months of transmission shifting and brake use down here. If it is winter up there if I'm just going the 1 mile to downtown I don't warm it up. It doesn't make any sense to me to run the car 15 minutes to have heat. Since I am dressed for being outside I just put the windows down so my breath doesn't fog up the windshield. It doesn't matter if it is zero out.

I forgot how nice the 3.8 is compared to my 3.1 Lumina. I guess I drove the Lumina long enough to forget the power or my 1990 Delta 88.

So far since I got back from Fla. all I have done is drive it back and forth to town. Lately my wife's mail route cars have been giving me fits. The last few years she has averaged one breakdown per year. The last couple of weeks are making up for having it easy.

[Walt 2002]

[QUOTE=mla2ofus;2256873]They have a very expensive little sensor in each valve stem that sends a signal to the computer. (how do they check tire pressure?)

The 2005 Buick LaSabre does not use that system.

Walt Conner

[cvcman]

none of them uses that valve stem system....again the 3800 has issues with the poor designed intake which was changed with the new engines but the issue has a easy fix and you can still pile on miles...decent gas mileage for a big car...we took my Lesabre to NC last April, had both our road bikes in the back seat,luggage in the trunk and avg mileage as 27/28 running 75 mph most of the way...

[RDR]

Got lucky today in an unlucky way. With a couple of starts today to unload the car from the Farmer's Market Sat. the last time I went to start it it turned about a half turn and everything went dead. I pulled the rear seat and checked the terminals. The + wasn't tight. It didn't matter. Turns out the battery crapped out. The "lucky" was it happened in my driveway, not at the airport picking up my wife at 6:20pm. The 75 month Napa battery was 4.5 years old. A new one is $179. O'reilly's was $122. Since the Napa battery didn't come close to 75 months and it was in the car when I bought it, guess which one is in the car now?

Two other things are different. My digital on board volt meter doesn't jump from 12.? to 15.? volts all of the time. It sits on 14.6. When it starts it doesn't have a spark knock.

The thing that got my attention when it first acted up was all of the clicking in the dash and under the back seat. I still have my '98 Lumina and am seriously thinking of getting it out for my next trip.