1995 Grand Am

[tkd_guy89]

Hey Guys, I'm new to the forum. I also do not anything about cars except for changing the tire, oil change, ect. But for the more complicated parts of cars, I'm an idiot. Anyway, I'm looking into modding my grand am. Here are some pictures of my car. Its has 117,000 miles on it( it was previous owned by my step mom and my grandma). There are a few repairs that I need to fix first. But I'm just doing a little bit at a time and I have a very low budget(I'm 17 btw)

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v220/artist89/?sc=1&addtype=local

[DSMMAN]

Welcome

[bballr4567]

:welcome:

Doesnt look bad at all. Give her a lil love and she be pretty nice.

[tkd_guy89]

Ahh thank you guys. As soon as I get the needed repairs done. I'll start doing some awsome mods to it.

[bballr4567]

What needs to be done to it?

[tkd_guy89]

Well first off the windows don't roll down correctly. Some piece inside ( I believe the x-piece that lifts the windows up) is weak and needs to be replaced. Retail for it is like $250 for the whole kit, he said I can't buy the individual parts for that year, he said like the year after they made them so you could buy each part, but my uncle who worked for pontiac and he is still a mechanic, can get it for me like around $180. and thats per door. So right now I'm just fixing the drivers side.

Heres a list, that one was the only one I needed to explain(have you or anyone else had the problem before? and what did you do about it)

Drivers door-180
Fix some very small like, smaller then a dime rust spots-???
A scuff mark(its white)-????
Fix dent on the passenger side-???

Then thats it for the needed repairs.

[bballr4567]

Man hit up the eBay. You can find window regulators really cheap usually. I know for my car I can get them for like $50. Word of caution, never go to the stealership to get parts. lol

At least it doesnt have any mechinal problems as of yet so you are doing especially good there.

[ManktheTank19]

Yea I agree...hit up ebay and :welcome:

Nice car by the way :)

[tkd_guy89]

Ahh, yeah, I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. I'm thinking of going with an orange light theme since the other lights are already orange or maybe I'll go with red.

[tkd_guy89]

I'lll post pictures of the scratches and rust spots to see what you guys think of what I should do.

[Big Joe]

:woot: for 4th gens

[XoticGA]

Looks nice!


Welcome to the nuthouse :wave:

[wiseojelly]

^ what she said. :)

[The Artist]

you can also check out uh... ah shit whats the name of the site... http://www.gaownersclub.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_censored.gif... hang on...

[The Artist]

I can't think of it, but someone help me out here... its like uh parts website that is cheap. I think grand am is in the name, but I can't remember it. I ordered my window regulator (roll up) for like 75 shipped

[tkd_guy89]

Ok, I uploaded the pictures of the scratch marks, here is the link again to my album

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v220/artist89/?sc=1&addtype=local

and so far thanks for all the advice you guys have given me.

[Nighthawk243]

Originally posted by tkd_guy89
I'lll post pictures of the scratches and rust spots to see what you guys think of what I should do.

As far as scratches and rust spots... repair them. usually with rust, you would need to get it down to bare metal, which sometimes that may mean grinding down alot... even getting into welding if need be. I had to have welding work done on my 1995 since it rusted through on the rear bumper mounts and part of the trunk area. I used some bondo putty to smooth the rough spots out. Anyways, you would also need to do some sand blasting.

As far as the scratches, buffing would probably work wonders if it is not deep... but if they're really bad, you may get away with using touchup if they're small, but you may need to repaint the area entirely if it is really horrid. I have a keymark on the passenger side of my door, and i plan on trying to just use touchup to fix it.




and by the way... the pics of the tape deck brought back nightmares of the time when the only thing I could listen to was the radio or Soundgarten's Superunknown... You could easily get a replacement head unit for pretty cheap. Its not difficult to put one in, the hardest part is just the fact that you need to be a contortionist in order to pull all the dash panels off.