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Originally Posted by jensenracing77
i have a 2000 Silhouette also, i changed the intake gasket after i got it and had the transmission rebuilt at 100K. the trans was because the original owner pulled a boat with it all the time. other than that it has ben a wonderful van. we love ours. we were fortunate enough to buy a used one so the former owner took the big hit on the price. i don't think any van holds it's value as well as other automobiles do.
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I didn't take the hit either. We took as trade last year and the trans was going into full line pressure and hard shifting. We were going to send it to auction so I made on offer and took it home a fixed it myself. It has not been a bad vehicle (other than my wife constantly gripping about headlights) but I think it could have been so much better of a vehicle.
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Originally Posted by Tucker442
As of this writing i have 2 of these now a 2002 that i bought new and a 2000 that i bought last summer cuz my daughter loved moms van so much. If you guys don't like these vans thats fine but i have to say that both of them have been problem free for the enitre time i have owned them. Just today i did the oil again in the 02 model, it was still full at 4800 miles from the last change. Both these vans have their original transmissions and i do filters at 15 k, complete flush at 60k and they both still work 100%. The 02 and 2000 have both had intakes gaskets done at some time in theif life but the cost was covered by GM they know they messed them up in the original design. I have changed them both over to regular green anitfreeze because of the Dexcool issues and the heat and cooling are just fine, both still have the original radiator, front and rear heater cores with no problems. I am an exception to the rule?? How could you not like a vehicle that just needs oil changes and brakes about every 50k. To me this is almost a no maintance vehicle.
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I'm not really having any mechanical problems (yet) its just the quality and feel of the vehicle compared to others out there with similar miles and similar original cost.