Pontiac Repair: motor mounts, buick park ave, online junk yards

Question
QUESTION: Hello Todd I know this category is for Pontiac's but since I have a GM car and the category is full I decided to ask you. I have a 1998 Buick Park Ave that needs motor mounts I have search high and low even on ebay to get motor mounts for this car and can't find any I also searched all over the internet and nothing. Can you please tell me where I can get these mounts from and why is it so hard to get them for this particular car? Also my abs light is on can you tell me what it could be?

ANSWER: Hi Cleao:
I don't know why you are having a hard time finding them. This is a "C" body car Pontiac didn't have this car but a lot of the parts and pieces are the same as a Bonneville or a Lesabre. Have to tried the after market like NAPA? they have one of the biggest parts inventory of any of the aftermarket places in the country. if all else fails the dealers is the place to go. As for the ABS the mosy likely cause would be a wheel speed sensor in one of the wheel bearings. Also if you live in the rust belt like I do it could be a bad ABS brake valve where the valve has rotted out. Good luck :)


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QUESTION: Thanks Todd I don't know why it is so hard to find this part I tried Napa, Auto Zone, Advanced, online junk yards and Ebay seems as if they just don't make them. so you are saying possibly the Bonneville and Lesabre motor mounts will fit this is really killing me. As far as the ABS I do live in the rust belt upstate Ny and we know how that is having a blizzard right now.

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beat me as to why you can't find them for a park ave! I do not want to say that a bonneville/lesabre are the same when they may not be. My job is just to fix em not to look up the parts to fix em.. I live in upstate NY as well "Buffalo" so I'm sticking with the speed sensor and or valve probelem. The wiring on those valves rot out it's under the air intake box on the left frame rail. more than likely it's a wheel speed sensor. The elements have a tendency to weep into the sensors and corrode them or short the sensors to ground. Good luck and keep warm!