Note , you can repair the front lower bumper, and two fiber glass suppliers make replacement lower fiber glass fender panels. these replacements are much stronger too. The headlights are all but unobtainable, new in the box, but the old ones can be polished and clear coated back to new, with little trouble. Tail lights may craze after awhile, and they have to be purchased used, and are not cheap if in nice shape. The main mechanical issue is the water pumps will leak, and take many hours of labor to fix, and we had to pull the turbo on my 2008 to get access. The 2007s only have the timing chain guide wear issue, which is expensive to fix, but the factory upgraded the internals, starting in 2008. If the guides are failing, you will see stuff caught in the VTT valve actuator screens. BC coilover shocks are not that expensive, and made a big difference in handling.
Correct only thing I will say mine is a 2008 and had the timing chain wear issue when I went ahead and changed it at a little over 100k miles one of the plastic guides was already broken.
The info on the 2007 MY chain guide is wrong. I had a 2008 Redline and the guide went bad at 86k, you hear the ticking at startup. I have another redline with like 67k miles, I’m the original owner and it has not had the guide replaced yet.
I thought the motors were pretty solid but I'm thinking non turbo version. Didn't realize they had timing guide issues. Didn't know about the differential either. I'm starting to understand why these are so cheap around my area. Struggling to find parts sucks, that's no good. I found one with 50,000 KMS for $13,000 here in Canada. Looks mint but skeptical to buy it due to parts are difficult or impossible to find now. I guess there's companies making stuff like windshields and tops but for how long?
Note on the headliner: The insulated top haedliner was an option on 2006 solstices, idk about 07. by 2008 the insulated headliner top was standard on all cars. I dont know if 2007 skys had the possibility of being built without that option.
All Saturns had the headliner, it was only the base level Solstice that didn’t have the headliner, it was an extra charge option. I think all GXPs came with the headliner option.
I am struggling with a couple of things and I would love to chat with you about upcoming mods. I don’t see anywhere on here where I can email you, how do we communicate?
