Loved the ssei’s too. Had one, engine went kaboom. Maybe my wife will find a pic lol.
This was a black on black 95 STS I had. Originally belonged to a member of the Calgary flames. Can’t recall his name though. I bought it off his bro in law needing a new transmission. Turned out to be only a bad solenoid (still required half the trans to come apart though).
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Lovely. Those rims were 95 only and were the best rims to come on that generation STS IMO. I've posted this (and pics at some point), but my parents had a 95 in Forest Green on 'Mushroom'....Bought it nearly new (it was the demo used by the dealership owners wife for a few months). They actually still have it, but it's been off the road for a couple years, sitting in the back of the garage. Perfectly presentable and roadworthy still, they just wanted something different and got the Quattroporte, but didn't get rid of the STS...It's a miracle car that somehow still has the original headgaskets with something like 315K of Toronto commuting on it....
My Aunt and Uncle had a 94 STS up until just a few years ago. It too had well over 300,000 km on it. It leaked oil, the drip was growing so they decided to let it go. The famous half case leak (big $$ to fix). It was 15 yr old me that suggested to my Uncle to check out the STS when he was shopping for a luxury car. They had it only a few weeks when the little resistance chip on the key somehow got jammed up in the ignition, left them stranded at a hockey game in -15 weather unable to start the car. He was furious and figured for sure that he got sucked into buying another domestic lemon. Was largely a trouble free car after that, they were well pleased with it through the years. I really like that style of STS, they turn my head to this day.
Our was pretty good too. It does also have the half-case oil leak, meh, not unusual in a household of British Cars, it fit in. My dad did rebuild the rear suspension/air leveling system at one point, I also remember an overhaul on the A/C system, a suspension bits up front, and all of the steel brake lines. No major component failures though. He was having issues getting parts towards the end of it's tenure as a DD....I remember some metal coolant line that goes to the heater core ruptured, it was nearly impossible to access it at the back of the engine, and the part was unavailable everywhere. Ended up fabricating something to make it work.
