2000/2001 Yellow purchase
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Burning Brakes
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From: Grove city Ohio
2000/2001 Yellow purchase
2000/2001 yellow with removeable top is my color and in my price range. Should I stay away from these because of the oil consumption issue. If this is true I will get a 99 red one. Only interested in 50k or less mile in well above average condition. Thx
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If you find one for the correct price, and it's mechanically sound, buy it. But don't make your buying decision just because of the oil issue. These cars could have other problems that are more costly.
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Burning Brakes
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Thank you all for the welcome opinions. Please continue to comment on this thread as it sounds like the 01 has many improvement. But the improvement come with oil consumption issues.
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I wouldn't worry about a little oil being used, It all depends on hard you drive the car, 2002 here and no oil issues at all. I would get an oil catch can in any case.
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Yes, some '00-'01 cars, especially the 6-speeds, had the oil consumption issue but not all did. Hard to tell which ones might but I wouldn't discount buying those years just because of that.
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the yellow comment was a joke. He got to it before I did.
Really, even those cars that had oil consumption issues didn't go though THAT much oil. It was an annoyance more than anything and GM didn't fix them unless it was extreme (VERY FEW).
Like others have said, do not let that be your first or biggest concern.
Buy a nice car and enjoy.
GL and Safe driving
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