I have a 91' olds cutlass cierra. The things that I KNOW are going out on it, are the windows, brakes, and struts...I am interested in restoring the whole car, to a fairly new condition...any help, advice, or knowledge of websites? And please dont tell me to get another car, I have 4, they are all projects for specific reasons.
2007-10-01 17:08:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
That is a very common car, you should be able to find parts at local junk yards. These body was shared with many others so I thing that will be no much of a hassle to find parts. I would say Google and maybe eBay and tons of luck.
I would say, the harder parts will be the plastic pieces. Beside, you could restore it on a different way, like taking all the chrome pieces, change the stile a bit. A lot of people do that, since the chrome moldings are hard to find or fix. Find another set of aftermarket rims that might go with the car. You might want to play with different stiles, you might get some nice and with taste.
2007-10-01 17:18:54 · answer #1 · answered by spammer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Before you start, take it to a shop and have it inspected for any collision damage and rustout. If its been crunched and repaired find another body and swap parts. Once a newer uni-body type car has been crashed their never the same again. Last thing you want to do is put all that hard work into a bad body.
2007-10-01 17:41:48 · answer #2 · answered by John S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An advise? Fix your car but don't restore it.
A good and complete restoration will cost you far more than what the car is worth, and quite possibly more than the brand new price of the car. Unless you have a sentimental attachment to the car, have plenty of money to feed your hobby, and you KNOW you are spending way too much money, I don't suggest it.
2007-10-01 17:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't call it a restoration because it probably isn't that bad. a restoration is when you take something that is junk and make it new. but with that car you should have no problem fixing it up because most of the parts are still available and there are tons of those cars in the junkyards, so you should easily be able to find anything you need.
2007-10-01 19:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by pimpjon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a 91... it can't be THAT bad off. Now you want to see a project, I'm working on a 79 Dodge Magnum XE, and they stopped making parts for it about 15 years ago...
2007-10-01 17:10:55 · answer #5 · answered by spazzagorilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only think i can tell you is when you do the brakes you better off going buying a flairing tool the fittings you need and buying a roll of tubing and just doing the whole brake system new pad and if it has back drums new wheel cylinders and hardware
2007-10-01 17:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by carnut22288 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
votech schools such as auto body and mech and eng over haull lear now to do the math in order to figher the size from stander to mm to one thouse of an inch to fractions good math is inportant to a good mech or aoto repair tech or body man but gress and paint dont mix if your thinking you can do both not in the same shopjust dont work
2016-05-18 22:42:26 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hayne's manual for the car
2007-10-01 17:11:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was funny
2007-10-01 17:28:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋