10 year owner of L200
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10 year owner of L200
Just joined this forum. I bought my 2001 L200 10 yrs ago. Here is some info on it;
There is known issues with the L series 2.2 timing chains. There was a recall on a small window of vehicles around 99 or 2000 I think. The issue is the timing chain oiler orifice was designed too small and would not oil the chain properly especially when the oil didnt get changed enough. GM blamed it on customers not changing their oil enough. That is a crock. Mine broke at 106k miles. It wrecked the head from valve interference. cost me $750 to do it myself. I put in the new upgraded oiler / tensioner that GM came up with. Unfortunately, my car was not included in the recall for some reason. I actually had lawyers from Chicago trying to get me to go in on a lawsuit on this issue. I declined due to the time requirements of pursuing this case.
I have also had to replace the following;
A/C condenser
Front wheel bearings
Fuel pump - leaking due to cracks in plastic at return line connection area.
Fuel filler neck - rusted to nearly nothing.
Struts all around
Other than these, a pretty decent car. around 30 MPG hwy.
There is known issues with the L series 2.2 timing chains. There was a recall on a small window of vehicles around 99 or 2000 I think. The issue is the timing chain oiler orifice was designed too small and would not oil the chain properly especially when the oil didnt get changed enough. GM blamed it on customers not changing their oil enough. That is a crock. Mine broke at 106k miles. It wrecked the head from valve interference. cost me $750 to do it myself. I put in the new upgraded oiler / tensioner that GM came up with. Unfortunately, my car was not included in the recall for some reason. I actually had lawyers from Chicago trying to get me to go in on a lawsuit on this issue. I declined due to the time requirements of pursuing this case.
I have also had to replace the following;
A/C condenser
Front wheel bearings
Fuel pump - leaking due to cracks in plastic at return line connection area.
Fuel filler neck - rusted to nearly nothing.
Struts all around
Other than these, a pretty decent car. around 30 MPG hwy.
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Hey Dave, welcome from another tardy poster! I'm on my first Saturn, a '95 SL1 that we recently purchased w/84K (yep, actual) on it. A few little things to fix up, but it runs really well and I'm enjoying the 35+ mpg.
192K is nothing to sneeze at, lots of cars from that era don't make it that far!
192K is nothing to sneeze at, lots of cars from that era don't make it that far!
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