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anyone on here ever have a plymouth acclaim or a dodge spirit, im gettin a 1989 plymouth acclaim and wandering if the car is proan to any specific problems, thanks for anyones help in advance

82 cappy

 

I have seen a dodge spirit my cousin owned go through hell and high water and still come out strong. She ran it out of oil and the engine locked, I went to look at it and I couldn't get the engine to turn with a wrench and told her it would need a motor. She is a single mother with no job and is on a state assistance program for a car and mantiance so she called them up and they took it to a shop and they broke the engine free. the car ran like before and didn't smoke or anything. i am still to this day baffled on how they got that engine turning again without putting any parts to it

 

well thats good news for her and for me .......my aunt had a dodge spirit, she drove the car for a good year, year and half never changed the oil, and it finally blew up, it may have been long !!!

 

dont those spirits have a mazda 2000 engine in em? .... if so, those little tirds are bullet proof.

 

i know some of them do, i dont believe they all do though

 

i know dodge used the mitsu 3.0 in caravans. the engine is awesome but the tranny is weak in the knees

 

you beat me too it bill, the engines available were the, 2.5, 2.5 turbo, 2.2 turbo, and the 3.0 mitsubushi v-6.....my brothers first car was a dodge daytona and it had the 3.0, the tranny went and it would have been 1500 for a new one even from the junk yard, his dad had the same problem with his caravan, good motor, but a bad tranny

 

I just junked our 1996 caravan that i bought a year ago for 350 bucks and put a 100 dollar fuel pump on it. during the year it was with me it hauled a pair of transmissions to new york (16 hours round trip), rescued me in lancaster, pa (6 hour round trip), picked up all of the extra pieces for my kammback in new jersey (8 hour round trip) and made countless trips to pittsburg (6 hour round trip). it rolled across the scales and netted me $327 that went right towards my 94 cherokee. I love cars that make me money

 

what waas wrong that ou junked it ?

 

I had a '92 plymouth acclaim with the 2.5. I payed $500 for it with 116,000 miles on the odometer, cold a/c and extra clean interior.It was white so that was the years the paint flaked off, mostly hood,trunk and roof which made the outside look bad.I spent a couple bucks on spray paint and just scuffed and painted those areas.It came out nice and the car was great transportation getting 27 mpg.

 

So what engine is in the '89 Acclaim you are getting?

 

not sure yet, the lady im gettin it from knows, absolutely nothing about cars and think basically anything older than 2000 is a hunk of junk, she especially hates this car and thus doesnt know anything about and doesnt want to know anything about

 

transmission started slipping in 2nd gear then started in first. when it went over the scale it would only pull itself during idle. a set of forks through the left windows took it to it's final resting place

 

sometimes, thats just the way it has to end plus there is no collectors value for them yet, and im not sure there ever will be,so what else could you do ? fix it and then sell it as a work van ? you would make your money back then, so it was probably the best route to take

 

if it was worth a transmission i would have put one in it. the body was just plain rotten and the only reason it was on the road is because I have a friend who will slap a sticker on my cars for the usual cost and a case of beer