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It was not that long ago that buying a used car meant taking your chances. People would run the risk of purchasing a car with faulty equipment such as a poor engine, alternator, and transmission. Fortunately, there are now many websites and consumer reports that inform people of the best and worst used cars to buy.
In order to help avoid, buying a 'lemon,' the following is a list of the worst used cars to buy:
GMC Canyon 2004 to 2006 models: Used car dealers have been warned to keep away from the 2004 to 2006 models of the GMC Canyon primarily because of issues with the brake lights. Some reports indicate that they fail to come on when the brake is applied or they come on and do not go off even when the brake is no longer engaged.
Chrysler Sebring: Problems noted include: poor reliability, poor cabin quality, poor performance, and problems with the engine, air conditioning and heating systems.
Ford Explorer: Problems noted included: coolant and oil leaks, clanking timing belts, and ticking valves in the 4.6-liter engines.
Volkswagen Passat: The Volkswagen Passat has had a number of issues linked to its used models. These include steering problems, engine and engine cooling issues and problems with the fuel system.
Dodge Intrepid: Problems noted included: engine troubles with the 2000 model, faulty airbags and seatbelts, and electrical problems.
Pontiac Aztek: The Pontiac Aztek is widely acknowledged to be a mistake by GM, and with good reason. Problems with this vehicle include the brake system, issues with the heater and cooling systems, engine problems and electrical trouble. Some car pundits loathe this car because its engine is weak. Some drivers also found it rather ungainly to handle.
BMWs (With automatic transition): These cars are known for their excellent engineering, but not everyone is enthused about the automatic transition BMWs. A car buyer looking at a used BMW however should be aware of certain flaws. The automatic transmission has been found to have problems. In fact, many drivers have found that the automatic transmission is difficult to put into reverse at times. The cost for repairing it makes it an unwise choice for someone who can only afford a used vehicle.
Mazda RX-8: Used car buyers have also reported engine problems with Mazda RX-8.
Kia Sedona: Used car buyers have also reported engine problems with the Kia Sedona. Some consumers have also reportedly experienced rusting of the tailgate of the Sedona.
Cars that made the worst used cars list, among 1999 to 2008 models, listed in alphabetical order:
A - L
Audi A6 Allroad, Audi A8, BMW X5 (V8), Buick Rendezvous (AWD), Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Blazer, Chevrolet Colorado (4WD), Chevrolet S-10 (4WD), Chevrolet Uplander, Chevrolet Venture, Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Sebring convertible, Chrysler Town & Country (AWD), Dodge Grand Caravan (AWD), GMC Canyon (4WD), GMC Jimmy, GMC S-15 Sonoma (4WD) Jeep Grand Cherokee, Kia Sedona, and the Land Rover Discovery LR3
M - Z
Mazda RX-8, Oldsmobile Bravada, Oldsmobile Silhouette, Pontiac Aztek, Pontiac G6 (V6), Pontiac Montana, Montana SV6, Porsche Cayenne, Saturn Relay, Volkswagen Cabrio, Volkswagen Jetta (V6), Volkswagen New Beetle (turbo), Volkswagen Passat (V6, FWD), Volkswagen Touareg, and the Volvo XC90 (6-cyl.)
Today, used cars are less risk because there is more information out here about used cars. Consumer Reports magazine is a popular magazine for getting information about used cars. They compile their report based on driver experiences. There is thousands of information on the internet about used cars. As well, the federal government's vehicle defect notices and J.D. Power and Associates' reliability data makes it easy to trace general mechanical issues with used cars.
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The Magic of Yellowstone
That’s right – they’re all here in Yellowstone, and by the thousands. Ten thousand geo-thermal wonders – half of all that exist in the entire world. Two thousand buffalo. Twenty thousand elk. Plus a waterfall twice as high as Niagara Falls, a park that’s larger than two entire states, more than a thousand miles of trails, and historic hotels built for the rich a century ago – including the largest log structure in the world, the enormous Old Faithful Inn.
But that’s not all: You can fish or boat on the largest mountain lake – Lake Yellowstone – in all of North America (20 miles wide by 14 miles long – a shoreline of 110 miles!). And if the economy has you bummed about having to put off that African safari for a year or two, think instead of visiting “the largest sanctuary for western large mammals in the lower forty-eight states.” Granted, you won’t come face to face with a rhino. But a one-ton bison can be just as intimidating. And in addition to the elk and moose and griz and buffalo there are wolves, black bear, bighorn sheep, antelope, cougar, coyote, mule deer...and those are just the larger critters.
Are feathers your preference? Yellowstone is known to America’s 46 million birders for its trumpeter swans, osprey, bald eagles, golden eagles, white pelicans, sandhill cranes, great blue herons, Canada geese, ravens, magpies, killdeer, yellow-headed blackbirds, dippers, and more. Even if you can’t tell a bluebird from a duck you’ll get a kick out of the variety.
But enough of lists...you get the idea. There’s so much to see and it’s easy to get here.
There are airports nearby (West Yellowstone, Bozeman, Jackson...), should you choose to fly. But if lower gas prices have you thinking of a family road trip, of seeing the USA in your Chevrolet (other makes are allowed), know that just driving in can be a wonder. (“Wonderland,” by the way, was a common 19th century name for this place, before it became the world’s first national park way back in 1872 and was later officially monickered Yellowstone).
Five paved-road entrances beckon you to the heart of the park, a figure-eight road system designed to take the visitor to and through an unforgettable land. But even before you reach this huge quarter-million-acre thermal and animal sanctuary of Rocky Mountain wilderness, you’ll have traversed the “Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.” Like a jewel in a velvet box, the park is nearly surrounded by the Gallatin, Madison, Absaroka, Gros Ventre, Wind River, and Teton Mountains, plus five national forests. As the old saying goes, getting there is half the fun.
As the director of an active-travel tour company I’m often asked “What’s your favorite trip?” If I’m just back from somewhere I almost always answer wherever I’ve just been, because I’m thinking of the people – the guests and the guides – whom I’ve just enjoyed for a solid week.
But my favorite favorite place? You guessed it – Yellowstone. Much of the reason is all that I’ve already mentioned, the wondrous sights and even the sounds of the place – the whoosh and gurgle of exploding geysers, the bubbling, plopping sound of mud pots, the giggle of kids when seeing these things for the very first time (my guides are unanimous in preferring family trips for this precise reason). Clark’s Nutcrackers and huge black ravens fly overhead, making their distinctive sounds, while nearby buffalo grunt their displeasure at having to move to remain in the shade. There’s always something happening in the Park.
And then there are the stories. Dinnertime for group travel is when one hears what everyone has seen and experienced during the day, and in Yellowstone that adds up to a lot. That would be true even if you only drove through the Park and took the boardwalk strolls around the hissing pools and geysers. But the road system covers only two percent of what there is to see. Our tours take people off the roads and into the backcountry by mountain bike and on foot trails, and just north of the park boundary (still in the Yellowstone Ecosystem) by horse into the high country guided by real cowboys. You can imagine the stories that spill out at dinner after these activities.
For all the natural history of the array of animals and geologic wonders of Yellowstone, the Park’s human history is equally fascinating. We have to imagine the reactions of the Crow and Blackfoot and Shoshone Indians as they traveled through today’s Park lands, and of John Colter (a former member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) who was perhaps the first white man to see this region – alone and in winter to boot! Luckily, there are better records of mountain man Jim Bridger marveling at the sights two decades later in 1825..
Like Colter when he had attempted to tell the truth of what he’d seen, Bridger was faced with smiles and shaking heads when he reported boiling springs and petrified trees. So, in perfect fur-trapper style, he cranked things up a bit. He told, with a straight face, of catching trout deep in the cooler waters of those springs and pulling the fish up ever so slowly, cooking his dinner on the way out. The unstretched stories of petrified trees likewise weren’t believed, so they became “peetrified forests where peetrified birds sang peetrified songs.” He swore of the useful “eight-hour echo that you can wind up by shouting ‘Time to get up!’” when you went to bed.
Three somewhat scientific expeditions (1869 – 1871) were required to make Americans believe what had been earlier rumored, and all make interesting reading. But more fascinating, for its human element, is Truman Everts’ lengthy Scribner’s Monthly magazine article “Thirty-Seven Days of Peril” (now available as a book titled “Lost in Yellowstone”), in which he describes becoming separated from the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition and having to live in the wilds until rescued.
Though he took care of hundreds of wounded Civil War soldiers on the field at bloody Fredericksburg, he had trouble caring for himself after his horse bolted on day two of his separation from the group. “My blankets, gun, pistols, fishing tackle, matches – everything, except the clothing on my person, a couple of knives, and a small opera-glass were attached to the saddle.” Our tour guides point out to guests the plant that sustained him, today called the “Everts Thistle.” The poor lost man had been four days without food when he chanced upon one and, finding it “not unlike a radish,” ate several. (He cooked them in a “small, round, boiling spring, which I called my dinner-pot....”)
Everts was “overjoyed at this discovery” and, with “hunger allayed,” went to sleep beneath a tree – only to be awakened in the dark by the screech of a mountain lion. He hurriedly climbed the tree and kept the cat at bay by throwing branches and howling back. Hundreds of thistles, two minnows, some grasshoppers, a small bird and a month later, the man who found him reported, laconically, “He is alive and safe, but very low in flesh.” He wasn’t kidding, for Everts’ weight was guessed at only fifty pounds. Another writer, who interviewed his rescuer, described his condition more fully:
...he never saw so forlorn a looking human being as was Evarts [sic] when found. A few tattered rags upon an emaciated skeleton, frozen, scalded, singed and festered into the semblance of a two-legged animal, hideous beyond description....
Truman Everts was wasting away, but no one has ever been lost so long in Yellowstone and survived. The man had grit. In further proof of his staying power he married a second time at sixty-five, fathered a child at seventy-five, and died a decade later. (I include his tale not only because it is fascinating, but because his report’s publication in 1871 riveted the nation and helped the push toward saving this huge piece of wilderness as a national park.)
Don’t think human history becomes dull once Yellowstone becomes a park in 1872. Just five years later, when gold is discovered on the lands of the Nez Perce Indians and the tribe is ordered to a reservation, they chose a fighting retreat to Canada instead and routed themselves through Yellowstone. While in the Park they encountered a number of tourist parties, including that of a Mrs. George Cowan, who later wrote a lengthy description of their capture. Her husband, a Civil War veteran, was shot first through the thigh and only minutes later in the head by an Indian holding a pistol at point-blank range. Left for dead by the Nez Perce, he awakened after a few hours (the soft pistol ball had flattened against the skull and didn’t penetrate), but when he stood up he was seen by another Indian and shot – this time through the hip.
More hours passed as he faded in and out of consciousness. Then he came to and, hearing only silence, began crawling toward water (he no longer could walk). Five days later he’d covered the ten miles to a former camp at Lower Geyser Basin and was found by two Army scouts. They fed him, wrapped him in blankets against the night chill (almost all of Yellowstone is above 7,000’), built a warm fire and, explaining that they had to continue scouting and would send an Army patrol out to rescue him, rode off.
Later in the night a high wind blew the flames into the nearby trees, creating a forest fire; George Cowan barely managed to crawl away to safety, burning his hands and knees. But he was picked up later by an Army patrol and packed out of the park, then transferred to a wagon that flipped down a ravine when the horses bolted. Thankfully, its occupants had been tossed out before the descent. The thrice-up, burned, and now severely bruised Cowan required all fall and winter to recover from his visit to Yellowstone.
But don’t get the wrong idea. For every old-time story of someone lost, shot, or eaten by a bear (inevitably an Easterner who has tried to pet the nice griz or feed the black bear by hand), there are countless magazine articles written by visitors extolling the peaceable beauties of “Wonderland” (that name died a slow death). In fact, as early as 1883 a group of cycling enthusiasts pedaled the dirt roads on high-wheelers. John Muir, more often associated with Yosemite, visited two years later, and suffered nothing worse than the equivalent of a fender-bender today – he was thrown from his horse.
In 1887 Owen Wister, author of many Western novels (including The Virginian) and a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, wrote that the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River (the one that’s twice the height of Niagara Falls) is “the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.” Then he and his hell-raising buddies shocked the tourists by washing their underwear in a geyser, and bought blackberry brandy from a hotel clerk to “...check disturbances which drinking queer water from highly chemical brooks often raised in human interiors.” You’ll find the water purified today.
If Rudyard Kipling had ridden horses through the park with Wister’s band of cut-ups he might have enjoyed himself. Instead, thinking to see Wonderland on his long trip to London from India he managed to get stuck in a carriage with two “old people from Chicago”; the missus “chewed gum and talked about her symptoms,” while the husband at every geyser complained about the “dreffel [dreadful] waste of steam-power.” Whatever the cause, the author of The Jungle Book was not a happy man. He begins his article with “To-day I am in the Yellowstone Park, and I wish I were dead.” Things don’t improve much from there:
“The Park is just a howling wilderness of three thousand square miles, full of all imaginable freaks of a fiery nature.”
“The ground rings hollow as a kerosene-tin, and some day the Mammoth Hotel, guests and all, will sink into the caverns below and be turned into a stalactite.” [It hasn’t happened yet.]
“...we walked chattering to the uplands of Hell. They call it the Norris Geyser Basin on Earth...There were no terraces here, but all other horrors.”
Needless to say, Kipling wouldn’t have made it as a park ranger. Or as an Austin-Lehman Adventures guide!
I’ve written too much about this one-of-a-kind place on earth, and there’s still more than a century of history to tell...like the contingent of “Buffalo Soldiers” in 1896 who pedal to Mammoth Hot Springs from Fort Missoula and back (you’ll see photos of these stalwart bikers when you visit Old Faithful Inn) – a distance of 790 miles with full field kit; the next year they rode their heavy bikes with field gear from Montana to Missouri! And then there’s Teddy Roosevelt’s visit in 1903....
The tales go on and on, just like Old Faithful. So come, and add your own.
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Montana sV6, Chev uplander, who makes the engine?
I believe that the 3.5L engine in the 2006 models is the same that is in the Saturn Vue. From what I understand it is made by Honda, is this the same engine that is in the uplander which is also a 3.5L v6
No, he's actually right. There are for sure Buicks made in China, but those are not exported. They are sold right in China to the booming car buying public.
Anyway, the Saturn is the only one to use the 3.5 Honda engine. The other 3.5 used by the rest of the company is part of the new v6 family, which includes the new 3.9 engine. These engines replaced the 3.1, 3.4, and the 3.8 engines.
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