How Many Miles on Your Lumina

[Garfield2]

Our 1993 Chevy Lumina with the 3.1 L engine has over 210,000 miles on it. I thought it more dependable on a recent vacation trip to Nebraska than our 1993 Buick Park Avenue. I replaced the ball joints and the drivers side tie rod end, and my daughter and I aligned it to 3/8" toe in. Drove beautifully. Checked the mileage and we were getting between 34.4 and 34.6 MPG. I run Valvoline 10-30 Synthetic oil in it. Only problem we had the whole trip was a leak in the heater hose just under the intake at the air. Got another 4" piece of heater hose, replaced it with the existing clamps, and we were off again. Cost of repair.. nada! My friend in Oshkosh, NE had a piece of 3/4" heater hose in his quanset. Drives and stears wonderful!! New tires on it and only thing is some rust and some of the interior lights? may not be working.

Wouldn't sell it for $3000.00 as I conside it a great car for gas mileage and well built .. will get me there and back!

[Holaday1185]

1997 Lumina LS: 200,000 original miles
-Only replaced the alternator and water pump

-Car runs like a champ

[goodol55]

I have a 1990 Lumina Euro 3.1 2 door which I have owned since new. It has 261,000 miles. Original Powertrain. 3rd computer, 3rd alternator 4th battery.
My problem. BAD Ventilation air flow, and I have disassembled everything. I posted to a thread on this repeatedly and no one answered. Any Ideas?

[gw84]

That's awesome! Original engine and tranny??? Can you describe the problem in more detail? Or post a link to the thread?

[Xale]

113k miles on my 1999 Lumina 3.8L engine. I've only put like 1000 of those miles on.

[1993LUMINATOR]

Originally Posted by goodol55

I have a 1990 Lumina Euro 3.1 2 door which I have owned since new. It has 261,000 miles. Original Powertrain. 3rd computer, 3rd alternator 4th battery.
My problem. BAD Ventilation air flow, and I have disassembled everything. I posted to a thread on this repeatedly and no one answered. Any Ideas?

hell ya dude ORGINAL drivetrain mm mm good same with me l got 320miles
my orginal had 444miles befor l crashed her

[gw84]

Originally Posted by 1993LUMINATOR

hell ya dude ORGINAL drivetrain mm mm good same with me l got 320miles
my orginal had 444miles befor l crashed her

Are you tryin to say that you had one with 444 thousand miles on it??? Now you have one with 320 thousand? If so that is so cool. You should post a picture of your odometer. It's not often you see a vehicle, let alone a passenger sedan with that many!

[1993LUMINATOR]

ya man l had a 91 4door base cost me 1grand Road legal had 310,xxxmiles then 1year later 444,xxxmiles and l crashed it..not every day a tie rod breaks at 120 and compleatly tears one side out and makes you spin outa controll then into a ditch then finaly stopping into a hydro pole at 40ish

my current 91 Euro 305miles now 1month later 322miles "as of tonight" minor problems but hey it has brakes

[1993LUMINATOR]

l forgot to add l do have pics, But l'm not allowed to Post Attachments

[Lumina91]

91 Lumina 242,000

[maxman]

'99 Lumina LTZ 3.8L. 195,000. Runs great. Gets down and moves with lots of power. I pull two snowmobiles in the winter and a fiberglass boat in the summer. Sometimes (most the time) difficult to pull boat out of water because of the front wheel drive. Had to replace valve in tranny at 90,000 because it hopped and jumped when it shifted. It is starting to come back. A/C clutch started chattering and was too lazy to fix and to cheap to pay someone so now I suffer in the heat. Had to replace window control and lock control on drivers door likely do to rolling down window with snow and water on windshied. Replaced ball joints, tie rods, and rear struts. Bought for $3,000 at 80,000 miles.

Interesting that I found out tonight that the center brake light works but the tail light brake lights do not. Fuses are fine and so are bulbs. Richie Straff above stated the same thing and says it is multi-function switch.

Have to remove steel bars under hood to get at fuses, battery, and A/C coupling. WTF? Why 3 fuse blocks? 1 inside passenger door and 1 under each steel bar under the hood. Cannot even open fuse block becuase of the damn bars.

[gw84]

Originally Posted by maxman

'99 Lumina LTZ 3.8L. 195,000. Runs great. Gets down and moves with lots of power.

Wow. I'm impressed. I hope my '99 LTZ will last that long. Just bought it a month ago with 64XXX miles. I'll be swapping back and forth between it and my '93 lumina (186K).

[mr_west]

92 Lumina euro
2 door
165,000km
runs great. I just put a cold air intake on it, and i baught some xeon head light,(brite baby blue).

I painted the stock mags, now they are shinny gun metal black.
and i slaped a sound system in it,
ALPINE cd player, and speaker.
2 12INCH premier sub woofers.

My car is going to fall apart, lol 800rms BOOM!
Goto my site if u wanta see it, http://www.mr-west.piczo.com
click (my car).

[uH8THECHEVY]

1991 Chevy Lumina 3.1 128,000 miles The second pic was taken before the paint job

[1993LUMINATOR]

ok heres my update,
my Lumina Euro 348,xxxThousand Miles AS OF TONIGHT
all orginal ohya

my problem(s)
1,my lower intake gaskits are gone Again 4th time l am not doing it again
2,driver rear shock/strut thing is bust fluid everywhere explains why my car is eating passenger side rear tires on the inner edges
3,my driver transaxle boot has a rock hole in it "Great" l tucktaped the junk out it and pumped it full of wheel bearing grease
4, My tranny is showing signs of city driving Abuse "my brother uses it for schoold down in sarnin past year:
5, theres actuly nothing elss wrong regular maintence and TLC is all shes ever needed
l'v had fuel millage issues for while but hell my first 93 got me 32mph highway and 26mph norammly
this cars getting 18city and about 23highway personally l think the tanks smaller casue $40 goes much farther in this euro then it did in my 93