I've owned like 4 of these Chrysler minivans now... they are fucking indestructible. I briefly had a blue automatic one that I never took photos of, it had the 3.0 Mitsu V6 and was a piece of shit and I got rid of it in a week. I'm sure a lot of people have had good luck with the 3.0 Mitsu, but every 3.0 Mitsu engine I've owned has had major problems over and over again.
The white/gold one had the Mitsu 2.6 and that engine was a complete piece of shit. If you remember a massive traffic jam one morning on the bridge between Langley and Maple Ridge, it was because my engine threw a rod coming down the ramp into Langley...
The 2.5 and 2.5 turbo is incredibly stout. When my life was completely fucked during COVID for not taking the vaccine, I drove my 2.5 with the 5-speed manual transmission, with a blown head gasket from Maple Ridge to Kelowna back and forth twice to move on the same day, steam pouring out the exhaust and had to refill the radiator several times, but the engine never gave up. The van STILL runs 3 years later, but I did have to finally change the fuel pump after it died on me this summer.
Before COVID I was rockin' this 2.5 manual 5 speed turbo van and it was sick, I sold it so I could buy another turbo, 5 speed car, but that's another post...
The white van with the Daisy wheels, I paid $1000 for during COVID, it came with snow tires and a ton of parts, I put nearly 40,000 kilometers on it, zero oil changes, just topped it up, the only maintenance was brake pads... guess how much Lordco wanted for pads? $180! Fuck that!
I got brake pads for it from RockAuto... $10 on clearance. The shipping was more expensive. Beat the ever living fuck out of this van going up and down the mountain to where I lived in Big White for over 2 years and it never left me stranded. Absolutely zero maintenance. It just would not die until the $40 fuel pump croaked this summer. No BCAA so it was a shitty $200 tow, that sucked.
