Neon up for grabs

[58classiccars]

Hi all, I have Just bought a Saab 9000 so I want to get rid of my Chrysler Neon. Its a 1998 lx model. She is m o ted untill march o9 and the tax runs out at the end of Aug 08.I use this car every day and its bloody good on petrol but she has the following problems, The car has lots of small dents, and the rear ns leg needs looking at, as she has a lumping noise when the car has a load in it.The colour is purple. Does anyone want to swap me something for her. I bought it off Ebay, the listing number was, 120264582751, She is in the same condition as on the pics. see ya

[Cavcraft]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 26_fvi%3D1

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Weighbridge!

[Volksy]

I quite like these, what are they actually like? Frameless windows FTW!

[retrogeezer]

I quite like them too....had one as a hire car in the states. Wasn't as nice as the V6 Dodge Intrepid though!

[gtd2000]

I'm not sure what the major issue is with these cars - they have a bad rep everywhere it seems.Funny thing is they use Mitsubishi engines and should be pretty reliable - but for whatever reason they depreciate worse than a Lada back in the day?

[Milford Cubicle]

I've heard that parts prices are extortionate

[gtd2000]

I've heard that parts prices are extortionate

Having lived in the USA 2001~2007 I find all car parts prices extortionate in the UK ;)Must be particularly bad for these then? Prolly get 'em from the USA a lot cheaper even with shipping then?

[andrew e]

Ignition Key a barrel probs like Voyagers mind.

[Father Ted]

Please move closer to the North West as I have sudden need of a cheap taxed and tested shitter for a couple of months.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'll defo be wanting one of these in a few years where there are none left.Always enjoy reading this story about the Neon.http://www.ag.auburn.edu/users/parmega/articles/neon/

[r.welfare]

Quality rental car abuse there I thought the Neon had a Chrysler-developed engine - updated K-Car lump, no?

[andrew e]

Excellent piece !Didn't neon's only have 3 speed auto's if they were rental spec only?

[garethj]

As we're wandering nicely, I :heart: the Chrysler Concorde, looks like a much bigger version of the Neon

 

[gtd2000]

Quality rental car abuse there

 

I thought the Neon had a Chrysler-developed engine - updated K-Car lump, no?

The Chrysler Neon engine is a small straight-4 piston engine designed originally for the Dodge and Plymouth Neon compact car. It was loosely based on the Chrysler K engine and the Rover K engine, sharing the same 87.5 mm bore. The SOHC cylinder head on the 2.0 is similar to that on Mitsubishi's "Orion" 4G15B, and the DOHC head from the 2.0 and 2.4 is similar to Mitsubishi's "Sirius" 4G63B. The DOHC head was deveolped by Chrysler with input from the Chrysler-Lamborghini team that developed the Chrysler/Lamborghini Formula 1 V12 engine in the early 1990s[1]. The Neon engine itself is the loose basis for the Tritec engine.

 

Beginning in 2005, the Neon engine began phasing out in favor of the new Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance joint-venture engine.

 

The 2.0 and 2.4 L variants were built at Saltillo Engine in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. The 2.0 was also built at Trenton Engine in Trenton, Michigan.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Neon_engine

 

The Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance LLC, or GEMA, is a manufacturing arm of Global Engine Alliance LLC, which is a joint venture of Chrysler, Mitsubishi Motors, and Hyundai Motor Company for developing a line of shared engines

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Eng ... g_Alliance

[r.welfare]

Allpar.com suggests Slant Six ancestry in the early Neon lump - sounds about right for a Merkin manufacturer - IIRC the first US versions of the Cavalier had an OHV 2L lump created by chopping two cylinders off a 3L six dating back to the Cro-Magnon era I thought all Neon autos - up until the very last ones - had a 3-speed auto - Wikipedia seems to indicate that from '02 on a 4spd was fitted, but I'm pretty sure they'd dropped it in this country by then.

[500tops]

58classiccars, did you win the car you were selling?

[Cavcraft]

I think the eBay link was from when he bought the car, not him selling it with one account and bidding on it on another.

[58classiccars]

58classiccars, did you win the car you were selling?

yes I did buy the car, and its not to bad to drive, but the main thing to put me off the car is all the small dents, but you cant see them in the pics.

[whitevanman]

58classiccars, did you win the car you were selling?

yes I did buy the car, and its not to bad to drive, but the main thing to put me off the car is all the small dents, but you cant see them in the pics.

where are you about in this Country of ours? as I'd be very interested if your even reasonably close to the Borderline

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The BMW Mini engine also has its roots in the Neon unit - some tuners have used the 2 litre gut in the Mini 1600 block or something.

[155V6]

If I remember rightly,you could get 2-door Neons in the US.

[58classiccars]

Hi all, the neon is now gone, a chap made me a good offer for her so its now his. Funny thing is she looked very nice as he took her up the road.All the best.