Acclaim

[CieraSL92]

Anybody have any experience with these? I'm looking at a car for my mother. Basically around town kinda car, maybe a trip to Maine/NH once in awhile.

I have a picture of it around somewhere-body looks mint. Guy said it's a 1993 Plymouth Acclaim auto with a 4-cylinder w/133k. If your not familar with it, it's based on the same platform (at least they look alike) as the Dodge spirit and the Chrysler Acclaim.

I could probably handle most of the stuff, but does this suffer from the same tranny issues the caravans had?

[Pontiac6ksteawd]

Underpowered, around town cars. The engines have known problems with head gasket failures. They also have a timing belt, so find out when it was last changed. Weakest part of these cars are the tranny. They love failing. But last longer with the 4 cyl cause of the low power.

[a1veedubber]

The short answer to your question is yes, they have the very same issues. IMHO these are far better cars when equipped with the 3.0l v6. My father has a 94 or so Lebaron that is the very same car, it has pretty good power with the six.

[Burgundy Ciera]

They are basicly just a redesigned K car, same crappy 2.2 engine, gutless, and as mentioned above they blow head gaskets and have timing belt issues.

[CieraSL92]

Yeah I passed on it.