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looking for a late model prizm by drmeyer
May 10, 2001 (8:23 pm)
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Can anyone help me in locating a 98' or later prizm with 5 spd. with 5ok miles or less under $10,000. Can you suggest some web sites i might try to locate one.
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Buy New 2001 LSI Prizm (Answer to # 427) by kunze1
May 11, 2001 (9:55 pm)
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The 2001 Prizm LSI you mentioned with the alloy wheels and CD player as only options is exactly the car I bought in silver 6 weeks ago. I bought my 5 speed, for $13k even ($17k window sticker). Got factory rebate at that time of $1500, GM card rebate of $1400, and dealer down to a couple hundred over invoice. Purchased in the Twin Cites area. Your $14,300 deal you mentioned is a very good deal on this new car, especially if you are not using the GM card for a big reduction like I did. By the way, with gas prices heading up I am loving the mileage, which started out at 37.5 mpg, and most recently went up to 39mpg on a tank full. (Mostly highway driving.) Biggest (minor) complaint so far, is that high cross wind days seem to want to move the car around a little more on the road than ideal, but I can live with it. When I go to replace tires down the road, I will take a good look at the stability rating for possible improvement.
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by y2ksport
May 12, 2001 (4:51 am)
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drmeyer:

Check out the Auto Trader:

http://www.autotrader.com/findacar/index.jtmpl?ac_afflt=none&borschtid=68297049781591539225

There are a lot of dealers and private individuals listings

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Here's a better idea! by pat HOST
May 12, 2001 (7:18 am)
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You can get to edmunds.com's partner Auto Trader through this edmunds.com Edmunds UsedPowerShopper link. You can use this service to either look for a used vehicle or list a used vehicle for sale. Auto Trader is the partnered source for this service.
 
Check it out.
 
After all, it would only be polite to use the edmunds entry point as a thank you to Edmunds.com for providing these wonderful free message boards, don't you think?
 

 
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Looking to get a Prizm by sailorbeavis
May 12, 2001 (6:48 pm)
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Hi, everyone,
 
I wonder if anyone a little more knowledgeable about cars than I am can help me. I currently drive a 1986 Mercury Topaz - a small (mid-size in its day) sedan that, for all its woes, is a car that I like very much. Its gas mileage is great (for a 1986 Ford), it's comfortable in both driveability and roominess, and it's a very sturdy car. However, because of its age, I can't really keep it any longer. Parts are getting harder to find and it eventually will suffer some sort of problem that will probably be more costly to fix than the down payment on a new Ferrari.
 
So I'm looking for a new(er) car. I'm not looking for anything auspicious. I don't want a sportscar, I don't want a luxury sedan, rather, something economical that has decent performance (i.e. won't get me killed on the highway), as well as roominess. I like the looks of the Prizm / Corolla. I figured I'd ask the usual questions:
 
1. Has anyone had any major problems or dislikes about their Prizm, any sticking points I should be worried about?
 
2. Does Chevrolet provide decent after-purchase service?
 
3. I attend a college that is fairly far from home, so I log a LOT of highway miles. Is it a good highway car, or should I pick up something with a V6, like a Malibu?
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Sincerely,
 
Josh Rutherford
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kunze1 by ken126
May 13, 2001 (4:22 am)
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I bought the prizm yesterday, taupe cashmere LSI, with 5 speed, alloy wheels and cd. I ended up paying 13,100 with my gm card rebate. With the 1500 factory + gm card rebate the car ends up being a great bargain. I just got rid of my 90 prizm with 311,000 miles on it!!!! Hopefully the new one does the same. One note, The alloy wheels are not as nice looking as I thought they would be, but its still nicer than hubcaps.
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Response to growling noise in front of Geo Prizm by bullockf
May 15, 2001 (4:36 pm)
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I own a '95 Geo Prizm with 75,000 miles on it. I too am experiencing the same growling noise on low speeds. It stops when the car completely stops. I have had no luck fixing the problem. Have you had any other responses to your dilemma?
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Prizm - The Dark Side.... by 3904
May 18, 2001 (12:00 am)
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Until recently, my wife and I owned a 99 Prizm. It was a reliable, economical, and fun to drive car in spite of the engine whine and the tilt steering wheel (that apparently was some sort of engineering joke).
 
Than in February, my wife and daughter were involved in an traffic accident that completely destroyed our Prizm. PLEASE BE WARNED, LIKE MOST SMALL CARS, THE PRIZM DOES NOT FARE WELL IN SERIOUS TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INVOLVING LARGER VEHICLES!!!! My wife and daughter survived the accident with only minor injuries but will never set foot inside another small car. You can't really appreciate how "in expensively" made the Prizm is until you see one AFTER an accident.
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to kunze by ken126
May 18, 2001 (6:30 am)
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Brought my 5 speed prizm to the dealer today for a rotating noise which happens when i depress the clutch going over 30 mph. It also happens when I am crusing but it is not as apparent. To me this is not normal, but the dealer says this is probably normal because the transmission is a 3 bearing only one. Whatever the heck that means.
Does your car make any kind of abnormal sounds when you press the clutch to shift when you are moving?

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