ok so ever since i bought my monte...which its only been a mth...ive been hearing some of the same things from diff ppl......im told that chevy's go bad shortly after 100k...mostly impalas and MC's...now ofcourse no1 went into detail about what actually supposedly goes wrong...but this is my 1st amercian car...and now ima lil scared...does anyone know if this is true...and also does anyone have a MC that over 100k and ifso whats the update on ur car

 

the engien on mine blew away at 168k miles, the tranny exploded at 185k. so they will last a bit you just gotta take care of them and make very sure to change fluids on a regular basis

 

not chevy's go bad, the 3.1's and the 3.4's blow their intake gaskets is probably what he's refering to, so if you have a 3.8 no issues, if you have the 3.1 or the 3.4 you might want to check into seing if the gaskets have been replaced for the newer design ones with the metal inserts in them

 

ya my 3400 started leaking the gaskets at around 70,000 so that is definitly a common problem for the 3100 and 3400 but if you have a 3800 you should be fine

 

I had a 98 Grand Prix GTP that had over 117K on it and I never had one problem with it ever. My next door neighbor just sold his 97 GTP and it had over 180K on it with no problems. Just maintain it and you should do fine.

 

I have a 95 Monte with 126,000 no problems (it has the 3.1L)
I also have a 91 Lumina with 237,000 no problems (it too has the 3.1L)
My 2006 Monte just turned 10.000 and no problems

 

gtp's are 3.8's no problems with those, and the 3.1 problem i dont think started till 97 or something like that...its whenever they switched to dexcool in the gm engines

 

Hey Wiz,

about when did they change that, I have a 2005 with the 3400 do you know what gaskets they used on the 05 3400?

Thanks,

Mike.

 

i bought my 00 with 80k on it and now i have over 125k and havent had to do anything major to it and it still runs like the day i got it

 

my monte is at 130k mi hasnt gone 'bad' yet, it needed the intake gaskets when i got it but otherwise its been pretty good. imo there are less and less of the 3.4 intakes leaking out there currently, i think the old style gaskets have vurtually all failed now and youre seeing cars with better gaskets installed, or cars new enough to of had better gaskets originally.

now recently i bought myself another chevy, 91 k1500 5.7 4wd, with 314,362 miles. now it wasnt 'bad', but it did smell pretty rotten untill some much needed cleaning.