How many miles can you get out of a Chrysler PT Cruiser?
220,000 or more miles. Everything major issue would have happened would have happened by now. Since you have properly maintained this car it will last a long time. Cars are designed to last forever with proper maintenance. The time to get rid of this car is when you are tired of looking at it. You can keep driving it for 3 more years and save 300 a month toward your new car.
Can you use synthetic oil in a 2002 PT cruiser?
Why yes you can ..my recomendation is if motor is a bit dirty id do a cheap oil flush by buying some in expensive conventional oil and a fresh filter and running it a hundred or two miles and then drain every bit of that out and take off the filter too and then use the synthetic oil and fresh filter so it gets a clean startMyself i use nothing else but Royal Purple full synthetic and a K and N oil filter and you should be good to go for 10 - 15 thousand miles of course adding as needed along the way. I also will change the filter around 7500 and add as needed just to keep it clean. I believe my 2 small block chevys that are pushing about 275, 000 with no repairs as testemony to the royal purples quality. Dont be scared by the price it ends up way cheaper in the end with way less changes needed over the life of vehicle ok thanks happy motoring
Why do people despise the Chrysler PT Cruiser?
The PT Cruiser is… well it's depressing. It aimed to be an affordable, reliable, hot-rod throwback that was aimed at the savvy consumer.It wound up being one of Chrysler’s biggest disasters.For one, the cooling system is horribly underdeveloped, to where the slightest malfunction leads to a popped head gasket. And, because the issue tends to compound, you wind up with gasket after gasket popping unless you replace the entire cooling system at a time.Then, the interior components were made as cheap as humanly possible, and you wind up with many broken door handles, vents, buttons, electrical gremlins, busted hatch shocks, torn seats, cracked dashes…But I'm not one for bias here. I was a MOPAR ride or die chick for the better part of my life, and I tried really hard to defend the PT Loser… but there really isn’t anything redeeming about it. No exceptional reliability, no performance in place of it, no luxury, and its not even cost effective as a means of basic transportation. 19MPG? My 1987 gets 35 (edit: Celica)…All in all, it was a gigantic flop that honestly spat in the face of the automobile industry. It's not alone in that position, but it does manage to also be the ugliest member of the list…At least the DeLorean had gull wings…And to edit, no I'm not actually a chick. It's just a joke… cause people say… that.I think I'm funny.
My PT Cruiser is having transmission problems what to do?
Hi PT experts! I have a 2001 PT Cruiser with 161,000 miles. Have had it 4 1/2 yrs. bought at 18,000 miles. At about 100K I had many repairs to it and everything was fine until the other day. I am taking it to transmission repair shop today as only in the morning the last 3 days, it is in drive, but then acts like it is in neutral. At this point car hasn't been used for approx 10 hrs. The rest of the day it's fine. Any advice if major repair needed?
What used car with 100k miles would you recommend buying? I see very few used cars with less than 100k on them now.
I feel your frustration and pain. I find very few used cars in my area with less than 200k miles, and the sellers want like-new prices on them especially if it’s a truck.But that, I think, says something. If I’m seeing a good chunk of vehicles with 200k miles, buying something with only 100k on them is only at “half-life” compared to the ones I normally see.Anything made by Toyota or Honda, short of the Prius (or other hybrid, unless you want to invest in a battery pack) would do in my book. I myself know the older Jeep Cherokees regularly live to 250k miles, and I’ve owned a PT Cruiser and a Ford Expedition with over 200k (and that Expedition, when I took it in to get the front ball joints replaced, the mechanic pointed out that they were the ORIGINAL ball joints, as was nearly every other suspension part, and they were all in otherwise great shape). Really, any modern car is designed to live a long life, it would be easier to point out the cars not to own - Chevy HHR, anything Acura (yes, I know Acura is part of Honda, but I’ve seen several people now with transmissions going out at around 120k miles) - and I would probably put the PT Cruiser on this list, for the fact that a simple repair does get really expensive: The heater cores are known to go out, and repairing it requires removal of the whole dashboard - a two day intensive operation by a mechanic.