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Here is our 1990 Reatta. We are technically second owners but it was bought by my wife’s parents brand new.

Welcome to the forum!! How hard replacing the struts will be depends on what tools you have available and your mechanical skill level. It also depends on the amount of rust you encounter. Trying to take the nut off the top of the rear strut rod can be problematic if the threads on the rod are rusty. There isn't much room up there to hold the rod and get the nut off. The How-to guides are pretty straight forward in explaining what needs to be done but they assume you are familiar with using basic mechanics tools. If you have questions people here are willing to help.

Congratulations on your purchase, you obviously got a good buy. I'm in the snowbelt in southern Michigan and was amazed that my car wasn't eaten alive. That plus all electronics still working but have now realized it was sitting outside for more years than I was told. You know the old saying "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. If you don't drive it, it'll rust" Needs a lot of work, brake and gas lines, a new rack and pinion, new gas tank and possibly injectors, brake work, a windshield and new tires but it still looks so good.

Pulsator crap in the filter that was my problem starting great now

Drive it with the MAF sensor unplugged and see what difference it makes.

Good idea to follow the guides👍 Is the check engine light on? Do you know how to access the onboard diagnostics? Fuel pressure gauge is your friend Is the vacuum line to the fuel pressure regulator wet internally?

After installing the new headlight switch yesterday, I took the MB out for a drive after dark tonight. I've had several American cars with fog lights under the bumper, S-10 pickup, S-10 Blazer, Equinox, and Reatta to name a few. There just isn't any comparison between them and the fog lights built into the MB headlight assemblies. With the American cars I've had you don't hardly notice the fog lights when you turn them on. When you turn the MB fog lights on you feel like you are submerged in a white light that surrounds the front of the car and about 8-10 feet on each side. Some of the things the MB engineers did were kind of silly, like brake pad sensors and powered headrests on the seats, but they did a great job on designing the fog lights.

For me, there is a difference between getting something to work and getting it fixed. I have accomplished the latter but not the former. In the past few months I have done everything I could think of to solve the problem of no "HI" speed blower. I hooked it up to oscilloscope to check the signals, I ordered a new control module, I took readings everywhere I could (I have 9.5 volts going to the control module from the AC programmer but only 3.6 volts to the blower motor. Today I took the other control module apart and everything looked good. I then hooked it up so I could run tests on it with the power on. In my testing I disconnected the ground wire from the "4" connector and the blower motor went to "HI" speed. I did some more testing and it worked in all settings. I then removed the ground connector from the housing and plugged it into my new unit and it worked with that one too. The only reason I can think of for this happening is that in the redesign of the control module a change was made that was not backward compatible to the Reatta. I share all this because some of you might be facing the same issue I was and are looking for a solution. Again, I don't know why it works, I just know it does. So take that for what it is worth and have a great day!

I know of 3 Burgandy Reattas in the state of Wisconsin. Two are in the local You Pick yard and one is now super charged and has been to my house numerous times. I'm sure there are more, but looking back I'm glad the guy pulled out so I could get a look at my next car.

Good diversion. I saw my first Reatta about 17-18 years ago. I was driving on a snow packed road up in Door County Wisconsin making insurance calls, when a guy pulled out in front of me driving a Burgandy car. I swore at him for pulling out on a slippery road like he did, but then said "That's a great looking car. What is it". So I pulled up real close to read "Buick" and went home and looked it up. After a bit of internet surfing and talking to my brother and his mechanic friend [who both work at a Buick dealership] who tried talking me out of it, I bought one from a guy in Fort Lauderdale and drove it home as a 50th birthday present. Never regretted it. Now who in Wisconsin drives a Burgandy Reatta???

The problem was the software for the manuals was written to be run on OS2 machines. In order to get Windows to run it you had to install virtual machine software (VMWare) to run the OS2 operating system. My computer would not run the VMWare software in order to run OS2 as a virtual machine. To me it wasn't worth all the hassle of trying to get it to run. I would like to find a repair manual in .pdf format but it doesn't seem to be available. A paper manual would do but they are expensive.

I don't ever buy a vehicle for an investment. I think the stock market is a better place to gamble on making money. I either buy a car for the service I can get out of it, or the smiles I think it will bring to my face. Purchase price is a important to me but the future resale value is never a consideration. I always drive my cars and don't worry about mileage and I tend to keep them for a long time.

I like what is posted so far about our Reattas, keep them coming. What I didn't think of and what 2seater pointed out is I sold my two Reattas to his sons.One might think I sold them too cheap, [$100.00 and $1000.00 each total $1100.00] . But I used them also to the tune of about 160,000 business miles. So if you had the two Blacks and the Red that's 360,000 business miles times 50 cents a mile equals $180,000 times a 25% tax bracket equals $45,000 in real money. That is why 2seater's sons got the cars so cheap...

One of the reasons I bought my Reatta is because it was so inexpensive, such a great value. I follow about 30 Reatta pages on Instagram and the majority of those owners are between the ages of 16-35, which is inspiring. I observe people at car events who excitedly approach my Reatta, saying to their friends “what is it ?” Then they look at the badge and sound deflated as they say “oh, it’s a Buick”. While the Reatta is not investment grade in terms of resale, it does pay dividends in driving enjoyment.

I've always felt that the price drop from what I paid for the car originally to what I sold it for was the difference in enjoying it while I owned it.

I have never viewed a vehicle as an investment, so the Reatta value is not a disappointment to me. What it does do for me is make me look forward to the first drive in the spring after a winters sleep. Never fails to make me smile. I have never desired to be the member of a large group either. Not on the personal level, but that of things mechanical. Personal appeal is what I desire. After all, as I have mentioned in the past, my first brand new car was a first year AMC Pacer X in school bus yellow and ordered out by me😖 As mentioned above, if the vehicle has a following or personal nostalgia attached to it, the value shoots up. High school cars or ones lusted after during that time make up a fair amount of the market. Rarity doesn't seem to matter much. Just peruse the vintage car marketplace or auctions and a 1 of 100 Camaro will likely bring more than a 1 of 10 Mustang or possibly a 'Cuda. The Chevy will simply be more likely to have been in the buyers personal past. It just seems that simple to me. The Reatta won't be in many peoples past and the high schoolers of the era, now see it as an unusual used car. My two boys, classes of '89 and '93, each have one acquired through Dave, and I suppose I have something to do with it. Different era, different crowd.

Well spoken. The only thing that makes my Reatta viable is that I have used it as a work vehicle while making residential sales calls as an insurance agent. I now have just over 320,000 miles on the Red, with most of them business miles, my Reatta has actually paid for itself. I also had used parts and I rebuilt ABS sensor leads so I've done well. As a matter of fact selling ABS leads paid for my engine/transmission purchase and the labor I paid my friend for installing same. It owes me nothing...