A Sad Day, the LeSabre is off to the Big Highway in the Sky...

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/1997-buick-park-avenue-ultra/1484246409

 

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/2003-buick-lesabre/1484140628

 

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/buick-park-avenue-ultra/1481178694

 

These are only the first 5 listings locally today, they all must come down here with seniors to retire.



https://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/d/orlando-2003-buick-lesabre/7054685882.html

https://orlando.craigslist.org/ctd/d/sanford-2004-buick-lesabre/7053046365.html

https://spacecoast.craigslist.org/cto/d/melbourne-2002-buick-lesabre/7065003659.html

https://spacecoast.craigslist.org/ctd/d/melbourne-2002-buick-lesabre/7064697023.html

https://spacecoast.craigslist.org/cto/d/palm-bay-05-buick-lesabre-4700-out-the/7060385927.html

 

The supercharged cars require more expensive fuel but have the metal intake manifold; the non sc cars have the failure guaranteed plastic intake manifold. So you’re going to pay slowly (with more power) for the sc car vs. lot every 50-60k for the (slower) na car.
Patrick

 

All nice cars Sean, but miled out or close enough to it to be an issue; - Thanks for posting them, but I'm not about to spend another $2500 or so on a car only to have to replace it again in another year. Most cars built these days are relatively trouble free up to 250,000 km; after that, they start costing. I've found most Buicks of that vintage haven't had anything other than routine stuff done to them, so by 200,000 things are starting to show signs, and most people are like myself, they don't want to toss a ton of money into an increasingly worthless car. It's easier to just find a better one and scrap the old one.
My Toyota has 104,000 km on it, just over 60,000 miles, and it was free. Can't really go wrong with that; - I'm hoping that this is the last beater until retirement. If not, I'll get rid of it while it's still worth something and get a beater truck which I need anyway. If I was to look for another car, I'd only look at another LeSabre, and while the supercharged cars are nice, when they go wrong, they're impossible or at the very least, expensive to fix. And the likelihood of something going wrong after 200,000 km is somewhat increased. Parts availability in Canada for these things was always poor, so if anything does go wrong, the car will end up sitting until the stuff comes up from the States, and I can't afford to have that happen.