Hello Fellow Bonneville Owners

[Toby Hanson]

Hello everyone!

A couple weeks ago I bought a 2000 Bonneville SSEi. It's got about 157,000 miles on it and I paid $3000 for it. I bought it from a former GM Master Tech who lives a couple miles from my home. He had gone through the car and done quite a bit of maintenance and repair work on it. It has new brakes all around, a new steering rack, and a few other recent fixes. I just put in a new downstream O2 sensor today. I still have to clean up the headlight lenses and replace the parking brake pedal mechanism. Other than that it's in fine shape and I've been driving it daily since I bought it.

It's a replacement for my previous daily driver, a '97 LeSabre Custom with over 200,000 miles on it. I've always been a Buick man. I like the soft ride and gentle handling typical of Buicks. I would have bought another LeSabre but this Bonneville was for sale close to me and I decided to try it out. Once I drove it with the supercharger and the crisp handling I was sold on it. Prior to the most recent one I've owned a couple of other LeSabres: a 1982, an 83, an 84, a 92, a 93, and a 96. I do a lot of driving so I put miles on the cars quickly.

I also own a couple other vehicles which I drive semi-regularly: a 2000 Chevy Blazer LS, a 1995 Chevy Suburban LT, and a 1993 GMC S-15 Sonoma SLE 2WD truck. As such, I've been quite active on the Blazer Forum and the S-10 Forum since they both have really knowledgeable and friendly people there.

I look forward to learning a lot about the world of Bonnevilles from all of you!

[96 SSEi]

welcome to the club buddy:you have picked the correct forum. The SSEi is a sweet ride isn't it?

[nos4blood70]

Welcome!

[agrazela]

GM hater, eh?

[00Beast]

97 LeSabre with an S/C? That wasn't a factory option...

Welcome! Talk to harofreak00 about the parking brake mech. He'll get you a new one in no-time flat!

[Toby Hanson]

The LeSabre didn't have a supercharger. The Bonneville I bought does. The LeSabre was a very solid ride but never had the kind of acceleration that a supercharger affords.

[Toby Hanson]

Here's a link to a few pictures of the new ride:

http://imgur.com/a/ZtJIw

[Benvw99]

Polish those headlights up and it will really look nice. Faded headlights can date the car and take away from how nice it can look

[Toby Hanson]

Polish those headlights up and it will really look nice. Faded headlights can date the car and take away from how nice it can look

That's one of my next projects. I really don't like the yellowed, faded headlights so I'll be polishing those up sometime in the next couple of days. The car could also use a good vacuuming on the inside. The previous owner had a dog so there's still a good amount of dog hair in the car and I'd like to get that all cleaned up.