I am from Stonewall Manitoba and purchased a 2002 saturn sl sedan 1.9.Is this a decent car?It has 115,000KM on it.Was hoping to get info on what to watch for.

 

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Welcome to the forum. About the only thing I can say to watch for is oil consumption. Especially if you have the DOHC engine.

 

Why do they burn so much oil?Can I fix it without too much cost?

 

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I just run a thicker oil in mine. In the summer here, I use 20w-50. In the winter I switched to a 10w-40. Of course, you being so far north, I don't know if you can do that in the winter. Summer might be okay for you. Maybe a 10W-30? Don't know why they use oil, it's just a characteristic of the 1.9 DOHC as far as I can tell. Mine still uses about a quart between 5,000 mile changes, but I don't think that's too bad.

 

A quart in 5000km is not bad probably only valve guides