2000-2005 Deville/DTS/DHS Check In !

[JB2003]

2003 Standard Deville - Bought at an auction 2 months ago for $6700, has 97,000 miles, its an awesome Bronze Metallic color! The only problem I have had is the infamous "LOW COOLANT LEVEL" warning, the coolent is not low though, from what I have read on this website, the warning is caused by a bad sensor in the coolant reservoir. Driven on long 3 hours trips, I love the ride! seems to get 18 MPG in the city and 23 on the highway.

[deezlbc]

2000 DHS here. Have the usual check engine light with tranny codes. My latest problem is a dead drivers side door panel. Nothing works except the seat warmer switches. Door locks and unlocks from the other door power lock switch. Started acting up on my birthday. Curse you cadillac gods

[sarb]

Hi i dont have problems with it, but it is wrong car to own if u can't do little things by your self to maintain it.

[cadmanchris]

2001 DTS with 168k. White Diamond with sunroof and massage seats. Couple of problems:
1- Reseal needed. Getting seals,baffle,etc to do it.
2- Crossover gaskets seeping coolant (will change when I pull trans for reseal)
3- Both front heated seats inop.

That's about it. I just got it and I love it. It has high miles, but it looks and drives like a new car. I replaced my 95 STS with this.

[ezed1]

Originally Posted by swisc

2000 DTS. 163k miles (purchased with 71k).

**Replaced crankshaft position sensors when purchased at 71k miles.

**Front seat heaters not functional. Rain-sense windshield wipers not functional.

**Three (3) window arm brackets broke during a 60 day period at approx 150k mile (found replacements on e-bay at less than half the cost of new and replaced them myself).

**Received engine code regarding EGR valve at 163K - removed/cleaned/replaced valve (approx 1/2 hour job) - no problems since.

**Fuel gage stopped functioning properly at approx 160k - no problem for me since I track mileage religiously

**Change oil every 3k

**Have tracked mileage since purchase - get approx 18 MPG city / 21 MPG Highway

WOW 163k that is v-------------y goodCan anybody beat that????????

[escalade/deville904]

on a 2002 deville where can i find out what this pcm code p0420 is for

[mnviking]

Just bought my first Caddy on on Friday. I picked up a local one owner 2001 Deville DHS with 95,000 miles. I'm still trying to figure out all of the options it came with but it seems to have everything but night vision, nav, and the sunroof. So far I'm loving it!

[trichards]

2000 DTS Bought new Black On Black 110,000 miles, Bad miss at idle 2000 miles fix was all Cams & software replaced at 5000 miles, All 4 window regulators replaced, Brake rotors warping over & over requiring turning to eliminate plusing.
Trichards

[pb609]

i just bought my 3rd cadillac.2005 blk deville. 44000miles. pristine condition

first was an 88 brougham, 2nd was a 1979 sedan deville.

[Clifton Gardner]

2002 deville hg,transmission,cps,window actuator right front,left back,rotors bad pulsing,heater,ac position motor right front and back seat,water pump housing seal, About 6800.00 spent. most of car works ok now.

[skankyfrankie]

leaking front struts $2500, back HVAC only blows hot air, had to add 1 can freon today. 36K on the car

[DevilleDeeman]

Have a 2003 Deville smoke gray color with 129,000 miles on it and it drives great. Alot of these miles are highway. I've had no major problems with this car...knock on wood.' replaced air shocks in rear and upgraded exhaust to Flowmaster 44 series.
Love this car!

[Prescott911]

2002 DTS fully loaded minus sunroof 20 mpgax but I have only had it since two Fridays ago. No problems except for ocassional ping and sometime the rpms drop too 500 rpm when in park or stopped but I am going to start puttin 93 octane in it to see if that help performance.

[tecarman]

Just got mine a couple of weeks ago. No problems but I need a DVD map upgrade.

[steveaikens]

Arrh! Gremlin noise hell.!!.

It's been a nightmare - but we finally found it. Metal on metal "clunking" noise front the front end when hitting small expansion cracks or other small road irregularities. Took it to one of my two favorite local shops [definitely NOT the Cadillac seller here] to see if they could dig it out. They decided it was likely a shock tower bushing. Replaced it. That wasn't it but I had to head to Tucson for several days so I just took it to Don Mackie [super dealership BTW].

They ran the noise down and decided it was more than one component in the front end and replaced most of it. On my way back to Clovis, it was great. Then arriving in Clovis, I came up the one street that lets you hear it all loud and clear if it's there - and sure enough, it still was.

My second favorite shop here is a paint and body shop. I picked up some scratches on my passenger door not long ago and took the car to them for the insurance estimate and mentioned the noise to their mechanic. He checked it out and decided it was probably a torsion bar bushing. He replaced it, headed down to MLK [the street mentioned] and sure enough, it was still there. He monkeyed with it a little and finally found it.

The noise was coming from the disk brake pad backing plate moving around in the caliper. He "glued it" down. We drove it around trying to make it come back up and it was solved.

I took the car back over to the other shop - they handle my brakes - and told them they needed to replace the pads or whatever they thought to fix this correctly. They swapped them out and the company that they got the system from picked up the tab. These brakes had just under 25K on them. Pretty good service from the brake company.

I'm church mouse quiet again and one happy camper.

The car now has just under 71K on it now and it's been flawless. Loving it.