Northstar engine
DH & I have been thinking of buying a Caddy DTS. A good friend of ours just got slammed with a $5800.00 repair bill to replace "the seal" in his Caddy. He was told it wasn't a matter of if the s...
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Big Katuna wrote:
Head gaskets. Not all fail, but like Clint Eastwood said
"Do you feel lucky. punk?"
The 2005 and ups are supposed to be better, but if you read the forums (Google is great) people are still having problems.
I had a 99 DeVille. Loved it, lost sleep over its reliability.
Dash blower went south. Sometimes it would blow, other times not.
$1000 to replace. Had to lower the engine cradle down to remove blower from firewall. Motor alone was like $600.
Cadillacs are just too complicated to keep longer than 3-4 years.
Thats why used ones are so cheap.
Sigh. And they are such nice comfy cars too. The creampuff we looked at is a 2011 Luxury II. 45k miles and $24k price tag. I'd hate to spend $$ and then get socked with a big repair bill. I was hoping for some good news here. But... want the truth warts and all.
