I bought an '02 SL2-5speed with 229,000km for $250. Car looked pretty clean, and sure enough after a few days of work replacing all the brakes, backup lamp switch, a few other minor items and all the fluids it passed E-test and safety with no probs! Cleaned up the car looks good in and out, other than a bit of nastiness on the leading edge of the hood. It drives nice too, nice and straight and quiet.

Question; When I changed the transmission fluid, which looked like it had never been changed, I refilled the trans with AC Delco Dex3 as recommended. But shifting seems notchier now than it did with the dirty old transmission oil. Any ideas? The clutch works nice and it shifts OK, just not as smoothly as before the trans oil change.

Here's my ride!

 

Looks like you got a pretty good deal there, I recently sold my 02 SL for $800. It had 275k miles on it, but everything was in perfect order and it was clean. I never changed the transmission fluid because it was always red when I checked it. It had the original clutch in it too.

I told the buyer that I'd refund a nickel per mile for every mile less than 16k they got if the car became undrivable for any mechanical breakdown. I would not cover an accident.

 

That looks like you just STOLE it!!! Sweet deal and enjoy!

Only thing I can think of would be to bleed out the slave cylinder again? My Exploder gets a little touchy when that needs done.

 

Thanks for the tip on the slave cylinder. Funny, I've driven the car about 500km now and it is shifting with less effort than it was when I first changed the trans oil. I did get a great deal on the car, the woman who owned it was going to scrap it so I bought it from her for scrap value. The car had been sitting for a couple years and was very dirty but solid. With my parts, doing the work myself, safety check and e-test plus the initial 250 bucks the car cost me $634!! So I'm stoked not only at the deal I got but what a decent little car it is to drive. It even looks good in and out now that it's clean.

 

Awesome. Now, DH would drool over the Javelin - gonna have to post pics of that too.

Of course, I'm technologically challenged and have to have someone do the photo stuff for me, but sw2cam did set up my avatar

 

I still haven't figured out how to post pictures either, Ginny. But in all fairness to myself, I've had two brain surgeries and lost my ability to read and comprehend schematics and blue prints. I have to just look at stuff and try to figure it out. It sucks, but it's better than being dead.

 

For photos I just opened an account on photobucket.com, then follow their instructions to download pics to the site. After that I copy the img code and paste here. I don't know if that is the easiest way to do it, but works for me

 

Great looking car for the money!