So I've had an 04 intrepid ES (OTIS /w homelink, leather, sunroof) for 5-6 years and while I've had my fair share of issues with it, all things considered the car took quite well to heavy daily use and I really enjoyed it. I'm going to say the entire time I owned the Intrepid I had serious 300m envy.
The intrepid finally gave up earlier in the week, likely spun a bearing but also getting some heavy clatter in the top end. I had really thought it wouldn't last through the winter so I'm happy I got well into spring with it. At 260,000 kms on the clock the body is starting to need some serious attention despite my best efforts to keep on top of it - brakes, transmission, suspension among various sensor/CEL problems along with some really terrible gas mileage. It was time to let go.
Enter the 2004 300m special. Just picked it up a few hours ago so still dealing with how amazingly similar the car is to the intrepid, and appreciating all the toys in the special.
So despite a very clean safety inspection sheet, there are a few issues already with the 300m.. Hoping to get some advice on fixing this stuff up. Also keeping this as a "build thread" to keep me focused on preserving what appears to be a very solid car with 120,000 kms. Keep in mind i'm no expert and am still quite new to the car
- CD changer and factory stereo is gone. Looks like someone crammed in a fairly basic JVC deck. Going to steal the cubby pocket thing from my intrepid since the pocket area between the deck and the ashtray is empty :baseballbat:
- Check Engine light. haven't pulled codes, this came up on the drive home. Got an ODBII scanner for my android phone so i'll get back on this.
- Speedometer stuck at 0... Looks like the speedo pin is tucked on the right/lower side of the pin at zero. Could've sworn this was working during my test drive.... further checks to come
- exhaust.. so I'm not sure but it might not be factory. Only the drivers side exhaust tip is there. Thought there should be two, correct me if i'm wrong. The space in the ground effects for the other is there, but a look under the car's butt shows just pipe from the axle back to the driver's tip. (pic coming, sorry)
-Going to do a full fluid change on just about everything for piece of mind.
The intrepid finally gave up earlier in the week, likely spun a bearing but also getting some heavy clatter in the top end. I had really thought it wouldn't last through the winter so I'm happy I got well into spring with it. At 260,000 kms on the clock the body is starting to need some serious attention despite my best efforts to keep on top of it - brakes, transmission, suspension among various sensor/CEL problems along with some really terrible gas mileage. It was time to let go.
Enter the 2004 300m special. Just picked it up a few hours ago so still dealing with how amazingly similar the car is to the intrepid, and appreciating all the toys in the special.
So despite a very clean safety inspection sheet, there are a few issues already with the 300m.. Hoping to get some advice on fixing this stuff up. Also keeping this as a "build thread" to keep me focused on preserving what appears to be a very solid car with 120,000 kms. Keep in mind i'm no expert and am still quite new to the car
- CD changer and factory stereo is gone. Looks like someone crammed in a fairly basic JVC deck. Going to steal the cubby pocket thing from my intrepid since the pocket area between the deck and the ashtray is empty :baseballbat:
- Check Engine light. haven't pulled codes, this came up on the drive home. Got an ODBII scanner for my android phone so i'll get back on this.
- Speedometer stuck at 0... Looks like the speedo pin is tucked on the right/lower side of the pin at zero. Could've sworn this was working during my test drive.... further checks to come
- exhaust.. so I'm not sure but it might not be factory. Only the drivers side exhaust tip is there. Thought there should be two, correct me if i'm wrong. The space in the ground effects for the other is there, but a look under the car's butt shows just pipe from the axle back to the driver's tip. (pic coming, sorry)
-Going to do a full fluid change on just about everything for piece of mind.