1999 Pontiac Grand Am GT - 3.4 liter - intake manifold leaking oil on the exhaust manifold - clear coat peeling on passenger side - noises coming from car

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RE: 99 Grand Am GT problems

Back at it again just wrote about the expensive intake job to be done, back in mid november, the noise I was hearing from the front well it's now two front wheel berings, two outer tie rod ends, 1 powersteering pump, and transmisson is slipping. This hunk of crap only has 76 000 kms.

Can't GM make a quality car any more, i guess not. Every one that i talk to i let them know what a piece of crap i own and advise them to go to an IMPORT.

I think that GM should really do something about their quality controll, and their customer service and to add to the heavily expensive line up repairs engine is starting to over heat and frequent stalling while idoling! 1 thing to say, "selling POS car as soon as it's out of the shop AGAIN!"

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RE: 1999 Pontiac Grand Am GT - 3.4 liter - intake manifold leaking oil on the exhaust manifold - clear coat peeling on passenger side - noises coming from car

I'v owned my 99 GA for 1 year now bought it with 32000kms

boy what a deal i got, car looks great, goes like heck, lots of pep, paid $15000 for it so heck i fugured i couldn't go wrong!

I' v owned ponitac products all my life but there's one thing i can say, i'm not buying another. HUGE dissapointment!

I have the 3.4l in this car the intake manifold is leaking oil on to the exhaust manifold, (great smell of burnt oil in the cabbin) my clear coat is pealing on the passenger side, and i'm getting a lot of expensive noises coming from the front steering and the drives, needless to say the powersteering pump sounds like a generator running, noisy as h#!@.

i did an accident check on the car because i thought that might be the reason the claer coat was peeling, NOT from that! and that problem every one has with a beautiful pontiac ,the manifold leak.

I can't find any mechanic place that will do it cheaper than $850.00 beacuse of something to do with the lifters! (apperantly they can't tell me exactly what the big secret of it is) but it's going to take 8.5h to do it!

well for a final thought, the pontiac's look good on the outside, and that's seems like that's what theyre tyring to sell! Not worried about GM quality!