The 1988-91 Buick Reatta Is an Underappreciated Classic - MotorTrend Thats like asking to make a cardboard box like a steel safe. I'd just like to have an idea when I do have the time in the future to sit down with this thing, a Haynes Manual, and a rebuild kit. Free shipping for many products! After living with a pre-production Reatta for a week, we have much to report. They will start being displayed as soon as you enter diagnostics. Happen. A dedicated assembly line the Reatta Craft Centre spelled Euro-style to summon the wanted aura was created in Lansing, Michigan, where the cars would be partially hand-built by workers specially trained for the task in a series of successive staging areas, with the paintwork handled by PPG Industries, also on a dedicated line. RyanCooper After the fasteners are removed, lift the front connection up first and then pull the pipe out of the rear. The Reatta lasted from 1988 to 1991 and was originally intended to build upon Buick's resurging performance brands, such as the Regal Grand National and GNX. Contact Us - DO NOT EMAIL CAR QUESTIONS. Notably, the GN stopped selling well whenitwas downsized. Or rather, too many othersalreadythere. "You can sell an old man a young man's car, but you can't sell a young man an old man's car" 1988 Buick Reatta VEHICLE TYPE front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door coupe PRICE AS TESTED (C/D EST) $29,000 ENGINE TYPE pushrod 12-valve V-6, iron block and heads, port fuel. I've checked the fuses inside the car. Reatta Owners Journal - Fuel Pump Troubleshooting The customers said, 'Give us comfort. If no codes it could be anything weak in secondary ignition (ICM, coils, plug wires, plugs. Upon close examination, you'll find no new and exciting technological breakthroughs in the Reatta. We said to ourselves, 'Hey, if we're really going to be market-driven, we have to look at what they tell us.' The rear connection is secured by two long bolts under the heat shield for the throttle cables. To. You didnt already forget the Buick Cascada, did you? It glides along the Interstates and keeps it composure on lumpy surface streets. The Reatta also had four-wheel independent suspension and four-wheel disc brakes with ABS. "The more we dug into it, the more we found that there was a group of buyers who wanted a kind of sporty orientation but still wanted a practical carone, quite frankly, that a fairly well heeled guy could give his wife. For all of the hoopla and marketing hype when it debuted in 1987 as a 1988 model it fell with a thud. Employees were really into those cars and worked hard to make sure that each one had good finish and quality," he said. The Reatta isn't beautiful, but neither is it off-putting. The Reattas second year was better 7,009 found buyers but this still not even 50 percent of GMs target number, and GM was not in tolerant mode by this time because of the Fiero Fiasco and the money-hemorhagging Allante project (GM was airmailing partially completed Allantes to Italy for completion, then airmailing them back to the states). Long trips in the Reatta should indeed be painless. Ive had this car for about 8 months and have had minimal problems. The only issues he has with his cars are electrical gremlins that seem to occur if he lets them sit for more than a month: stalling and hesitation with the computer fuel injection, and the need to replace mass airflow and O2 sensors. Reatta Owners Journal isa group of Buick Reatta owners and enthusiasts who enjoy discussing the Buick Reatta automobile and sharing information about it. Its basic design still thwarts easy control of subsystems; you can't, for instance, adjust the climate control or the stereo when the engine gauges are on the screen. Once you know that the power to the electronics is OK, then could be either connections at the BCM or CPS or either of those modules has gone south. Now we're up to the how and the where of the development saga. Buick Reatta Powered by Invision Community. Calibradores traseros y soportes para Buick Reatta The top cloth or vinyl was manually lowered and closed and had a glass rather than plastic rear window, with an embedded electric defroster grid.