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Originally Posted by WelmoedJ
...My DeLorean is one of the few (approx. 100-150 cars) that have been painted. Not factory though, as the factory didn't have a paint street nor a permit to set one up. Painting was permitted by the big boss, but dealers had to take care of the job.
My Pontiac is a late 95 model and therefore designated as being a 96er.
Most of the problems were in the first 3 (warranty) years, fortunately.
If I'm correct these cars were built in Austria. A week ago I have replaced the spark plugs; man oh man, that's a hell of a job on a 6 cylinder car. Took me about 3 hours for the rear ones.
One of the major changes I made was rewiring the main lights. The factory wiring was way too light to provide good power to the lamps. I rewired using 2.5 mm2 wire and for each unit its own relay. That improved the light by 50%. I also made all units work when the high beam is turned on.
I started doing my own maintenance after I found that the workshop that did service the car previously, never replaced the oil filter (it still had the factory sticker on it after removing). I knew why: the filter seized so tightly that it ruptured totally upon attempts to remove it.
Now I actually don't need a big car like this one, but it drives well, is comfortable and most of all it's worth nothing for trading in. So I keep it as long as possible, at least until the engine gives in. An overhaul is a bit too much for the car's age and for me.
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Back to this thread on that topic...The idea athat these were built in Austria is interesting...GM surely has a plant somewhere there.
As for the headlights, I was to comment that at least your DeLorean has standard sealed beams headlights, the type that delivered the light beam where it belongs...and replacement was cheap, with new reflector, lens and bulb....I do not find the profiled light contraptions of todays cars very interesting..blasting the light all across the earth......so inefficient that you need 100W bulbs to try to deliver what was obtained with a 30watt sealedbeam... ANd indeed, right from the start, I had installed relays for my TS headbeams, fed directly at the alternator output, with all units working on HI ; all the internal wiring just feeds the relay coil; what a difference..I had done the same for all my cars for decades. ..but those modern plastic lenses are doomed after the years anyway. I've seen cars of similar years in Europe that still had glass lenses....how about yours ? (90 to 92 had glass lenses here...93 and on... plastic.