The olds version of the dustbuster vans was known as the Cadillac of minivans.

Grimes is really great at talking to the camera, and explaining in simple terms the steps he's taking to solve the problems. It's really great !

The Black & Decker DustBuster is a cordless vacuum cleaner that was introduced in January 1979.

HI guys, hey Grimes, under the coil pack is the ignition module. The flat machined plate between the layers is coated with dielectric grease to maintain good ground. The grease drys out on older units so cleaning and regreasing may fix the problem if not the module may be cheesed out. Good luck yall.

I bought a new 1992 Transport SE with the 3.8 engine. It had the pneumatic self leveling rear suspension that worked very well. The individual rear seats were easy to remove for carrying cargo. It had about 220,000 trouble free miles when I traded it in.

"It is the Cadillac of Minivans" - Chili Palmer, Get Shorty (1995). Check out the remote sliding door, pretty futuristic in the '90s.😎

I remember so many of my friend's parents had these dust buster vans back when we were in junior high and high school.. They still to this day look odd to me, but they seem to run forever. That 3800 is solid. I have seen so many cars just rot around that engine. Yet still run fine..

Grimes is a real addition to the team. His love and knowledge of these older vehicles will be a huge asset.

Grew up with a green Silhouette in high school. My mom let me drive it from Ohio to California as a senior graduation gift. It was a great road-trip car!

I had a 1993 Silhouette, bought brand new. Loved it. If it had had a sliding door on BOTH sides and the Series II 3800 V6 instead of the regular 3800, it would have been PERFECT. I always referred to it as "the shuttlecraft" (Star Trek reference). Mine did have some grounding problems that did take the dealership an overnight to locate (right at the top of the engine).

I knew people who worked at GM Oshawa where they built these as Luminas. It had a huge list of production problems and quality issues, even the engineers at the time nicknamed it the Lemona. They sold a lot of them but they all ended up at wreckers soon. Amazed to see one still surviving.

GREAT JOB GRIMES!!! Dusty is once again running like a dream and soon to be roaming the byways and highways of our sunny Sunflower State. Wizard Rocks!!! Thanks to all involved!!! : )

Oh god. We had a 3.8 like that whe i was a kid, it was one of the only ones with the V6 here in France!

5:33 oh my….this radio set-up just transported me back in time. It’s amazing how that triggers something in my brain!

3800, its always impressive when GM is able to accidentally make a reliable engine.

did he mention that they are plastic bodied? Individually removable rear seats were so much lighter for the average soccer mom to remove than a big bench. those things rode and handled pretty well (for the time). My parents had one for a while..loaded up Lumina LS with rear air, alloys, power everything and the 3800.

The older I get the more of a fascination I have with 90s vans... One that I find totally insane and amazing is the Previa because of its engine location, and just overall quirkiness. But stuff like this 95 Silhouette or even late model station wagons... to be honest If I see those out in the wild in mint condition it is more impressive to me than seeing most sports cars. I freaking love these weirdo Vans.

Always thought these were cool so I bought a 3.8L 92 Lumina APV this year. Magnificent machine it is.

I love my 1993 Pontiac Trans Sport 3.8, they build a Version for Europe, with different taillights ( amber indicator) based on the Silluette. ...but badged as pontiac, . The 2 days i drove 800 miles to the south of Europe.....getting 22 mpg on german Autobahn!

I had a Lumina van back in the day. That thing was actually super fun and surprisingly quick.

I remember thinking how cool those were when they first came out when I was a kid. Glad to see one in such good condition

The dustbuster vacuum was more an 80s thing. I spent years and years working at car washes, starting at age 11. I still have nightmares about cleaning the inside of the wind shield on these things. You cannot reach the base unless you're 6'5.

The dustbuster vans were actually more reliable than the Chrysler minivans. My cousin had bought a 1993 Grand Caravan brand new and only had it like a year. The transmission went out and at the time Chrysler didnt want to fix it under warranty. She got rid of it and bought a brand new 1995 Pontiac Transport with the 3800. She ended up keeping that van from 1995-2013. It gave her one issue and that was the fuel pump back in 2002. She had a GMC, Pontiac, Buick dealer do the repair and it has been running since. I think she put like 275,000 miles on it. She sold it to another cousin and he drives it now to this day. He does mobile detailing out of it.

I would daily that. Cool and quirky 80's-90's cars are getting hard to find and when you do, they are starting to command "collector" prices. I did see a near mint Cutlass Calais for 4k. Was so tempted.

I, too, have used freezers as electronic diagnostic tools.

I owned a 1992 model Silhouette! It had air ride and full leather! It was equipped with lots of features but had the 3.4 v6 which was very reliable but didn't have the power of the 3.8.... i loved it anyway! Didn't have to worry about rust because the body was all plastic! ❤

The first concert I ever went to, with my Mom in 1974 when I was 9, was to see Charley Pride and Dave & Sugar was his opening act. Cool memory. Thanks for the video 👍

Who ya gonna call ?!!! Dustbuster 🤣

Very good to see your new man working on older Cars now......Thanks guy's 👍

I remember the Olds one fondly, back in 99 I got taken to Florida as a suprise to stay with my Great Uncle and he had one and despite having something similarish back home the UK (Ford Galaxy, not to be mistaken for the US Galaxie) it felt like this big spaceship. Funny you made the Gameboy joke, theres actually some instances when a Gameboy was used to run a dedicated cart containing the software and connector for diagnostics and tuning.

I remember when these first came out. It is good to see one survive. Great job , Tyler. Looking forward to seeing you on Wizards videos AND Jake's videos. Best of luck to you.

Hey Wizard & Mrs Wizard, the dust buster vans were so popular in the nineties!!! When they came out I thought that they were so futuristic looking!!! Thanks for sharing another fun video!!! 👍👍🙂

The car of my childhood. Love the Pontiac transport SE my parents had.

I had 95 Silhouette in metallic grey, we called it the space shuttle. It had the biggest dash I've ever seen on any van to this day. I ended up selling it for 1k, and it had 250k on it.

My cousin owns a Lancia Stratos HF replica made by a British Company, called “Lister-Bell”, that has a Supercharged Buick 3800 V6 from a ‘99/‘98 Riviera. Great engines. Highly tunable. Parts & service are always available. Moreso than an original Ferrari Dino V6.

I love these things! They sold the Pontiac ones in Finland in the 90's. I think they looked brilliant. Heck, still do, rare as they maybe.

Holy crap- what a great looking van- can't believe the front end looks so good.

Cool, a coworker of mine at the Ingle's I work at has one, silver with black side stripes, a 1996 model, cool 🥰

That thing is ridiculously mint! Who takes that kind of care with one of these?! Unbelievable! Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Wizard! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦

Epic episode and glad to see the rad era of cars getting so much love

Thanks for sharing that Clean Survivor Silhouette. It looks like the owner really cares for it too. Hope you get the stall issue sorted out. I'd suspect the ICM because of my experience with these 3800s.

My Old Car has a great dustbuster van vid and his dad was a gm plant designer that worked at retooling the plant for these plastic panneled vans.

WIZARD ... glad you're doing some nostalgic stuff. This is excellent for today's generation. PLEASE crank-out more like this. Thank you !

I like the diagnostic details that Grimes was sharing. Interesting to hear and learn!

One of the coolest features ( to me ) of this series of GM Vans : You fold all the rear seats flat... and viola ... you have 14 more cup holders.... and a 4x8 sheet of plywood will fit like a glove....

Mr. Wizard uses the word cool to describe this mini van. This mommy wagon was never cool; not when new, and especially not now. What a funny guy! AND park right next to a Viper! OMG

When I was a mechanic in the late nineties, the dustbusters had one of the most difficult to replace batteries. The worst variant had the washer fluid reservoir on the cross brace that covers the battery.

Felt like just yesterday you had 150 K subs. Congrats on the journey

This van was a bright spot during a dark time in my life. In 2001, I was placed in foster care due to molestation, neglect, and abuse. My foster mother owned one of these vans. Many a road trip was taken in her Dustbuster Silhouette, a nice hunter green exterior with the same beige interior. She had also had a Trans Sport, which she gave to one of her former foster children. I remember the automatic sliding door humming as it slid closed. I shut my fingers in it once because I thought I could reach in real quick to grab something before it closed all the way. I don't know if hers had the 3800, but it was a pretty nice van. I'd like to find one at some point.

That is fantastic you are bringing the 70s and 80s back!!!

Halo from England, love your blog.allso great to see your wife talking on the inside of the car ,Thank you ,x

$200/hour is a nice way of saying "stop calling me about fixing your pos 90s car for cheap. Im booked solid"

Man, you guy's are the real deal. Love the entertainment and knowledge. Thanks.

Tyler is a natural at online content :) Keep up the mazing work! I will never get the chance to use you as I am in the UK, but wish there was someone like you in my area!

I had an '89 Pontiac Bonneville with the 3.8! Absolutely great engine! I Put 260 k miles on it before I traded it in! That car NEVER failed me!

Love these. My family had a red Chevy lumina apv. Tons of childhood memories.

So cool finally seeing a video on it, it really does look just like mine i just got from TX, love the fact the owner has named it too shows that they really do care about it

Grimes seems like a great hire. Hope he sticks around!

Wow Wizard, you're close to a million! I'm a really long time subscriber. Congrats. 😊

These vans and all their iterations are so darn familiar to me working as a mechanic since the late 90's. Opening the hood on the 3.8 gave me flashbacks lol. This one is is just wonderful and you can tell it was really cared for by the owners. Thanks for sharing it!

I used to have one of these! In the beautiful metallic green blue. I loved it. It was such a goofy but great van to drive as a teenager. I used to take it on tour for my band. We called it the tealmobile.

love the video wizard! Commentary from Grimes is great too!

Used to have on of these - MY'93, export European version, loaded except sunroof (rare option on these). Fun fact: when Americans done a face lift on these (with Bonneville front) for MY'93, the Europe got the Silhouette sold as Pontiac Trans Sport (except the decals on the body and fog lights) - it was sold this way till its end as MY'96. I always have a soft spot on the "dustbusters" since they were new. One of the best van I've been ever driven - comfort (rear air suspension), handling (low center of gravity/aerodynamics), practicality, torqy engine with good MPG and I it reached 200 km/h on German Autobahn with no issues. I miss mines - replaced it with a '96 Chevy Astro conversion van.

Those GM vans always reminded me of a space vehicle from Lost In Space. As always Auto Wizard,you are correct the side body decale is factory born.as always great work. Thanks Wizards.

WOW this channel has exploded, good job guys!

Grandparents had the Lumina APV, white on blue. Loved that van.

Before the production version came out in 1990 there was a show car version in the late 1980s called the Trans Sport that was really cool looking.

I had a 1992 Pontiac Transport. It was my first mini van. I absolutely loved it. All plastic body that would never rust. Had it till 2005 when the transmission went out. Could not get it replaced because they said they didn't make that one again. Still miss it.

That's a super clean example! Spent lots of time in the transport version as a kid. Whenever we traveled far, my father would bring one home from his dealership. Loved them then, still love them now!

Welcome Grimes!!! Really liked you instantly!!! Bless Omega for keeping me very entertained!!!!

No doubt about it. That is the very definition of "adult owned and driven." Super nice!

This was a joy to watch. I grew up with a 94 Transport and the face lift final year model as well. I loved being in and driving these vans. So many practical things about them and they were comfy. To this day I still think the windshield wiper controls are the best I’ve used.

Awesome, Recommend doing both Cv axels !!!

Last product built in the GM Tarrytown NY plant, which was older than GM itself and according to John Z Delorian in his book, (On a clear day you can see General Motors), had the worst built cars and dealers would refuse them.

You're doing great Grimes! 👍 ❤

definitely worth fixing the issues with it, plus its so cool to look at. Ford had the Aroe Star, i remember these well as a kid!

So many people who owned these vans had front end crashes due to the design of the front end. It is very difficult to judge distances.

A blast from the past - the Chevrolet Lumina APV van was our service department's courtesy shuttle back in my days at the Chevrolet dealership.

I loved these things. This and the Taurus Wagon were my favorite family cars back then. Id love to modernize that a little.

My wife had the Chevy version and it is still her all time favorite car.

My main memory regarding these, was in elementary school, and there was some advisory sent out to parents in the surrounding schools and area, that some perv was lurking around in a Transport. I always knew car models, even then so I knew what to look out for. So aside from once being common traffic, that's all I remember them for now. Creepmobile 😄

The design of cars from 80s & 90s gives me positive vibes, regardless of how nice or ugly they are. Different times back then, people had personality, ehether coor or not, and so did cars...

These vans were EVERYWHERE here in Phoenix AZ back in the 90’s!

My aunt/uncle had a Pontiac version of this. I loved it.

I had a Pontiac Transport back in the 90's. I loved that van.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that weirdly enjoys minivans from the 90s.

When I was little in the early 90s, my dad took us on a trip down to D.C. from Boston. On Route 95 he was pointing out all of these then-new vans by the unique taillights on them. It turned into a game of counting the taillights. Other car related highlights of that trip included the roof of our Bronco being too high for a parking garage, and us witnessing a flipped over then-new Lincoln Town Car with the airbags deployed, and a police officer on the scene pointing out this newfangled safety feature to us.

I had a 1993 lumina APV and I absolutely loved it. It was dark blue with a red pinstripe and the mags. It has 2 heater and 2 ac, which was ice cold. It was so silent to ride in it was amazing. Funny looking but very functional.

If we all had honest mechanics like The Car Wizard (and Mrs. Wizard, and the Wizard’s mechanics), we would all be happier! Honest work, at an honest price, and a warranty to back it up! May not be the cheapest, but it will be fixed!

Looking forward to seeing y'all hit that Million Mile Marker!! ♥️

Watch your head when you're opening the front doors from the outside, they will smack you in the forehead with their protruding corner. Loved those van.

I had a Oldsmobile dust buster with the 3800 great van love them

Had multiple lumina apv's...they were all great....the 3.8 powered ones especially

I can't believe it looks so good. Normally does things are falling apart.

Our next door neighbour had a black one of these and we had a 92 Aerostar. I remember liking the growl of the exhaust note.

Had a '91 Silhouette with all the options for 5 trouble free years. I appreciated the air suspension and ability to remove individual seats for hauling stuff. Gave it to my son when I bought a boat and needed something with more towing capability.

The Cadillac of minivans...

We owned a 1992 Pontiac TransSport. We liked that you could easily remove the 5 back seats. We moved our daughter up to university with two trips. We had bought used IKEA furniture. The 3800 engine was very good. We sold it with close to 300,000 km. Of course we did the regular maintenance etc. including transmission fluid changes, coolant changes, and engine oil and filter changes. We had the alternator rebuilt at a Delco service centre. The heater core was changed once. That was what some people classed as fun. I took it down to where the actual heater core needed monkey hands. The Pontiac dealer did it for something like 2.5 hours. The 16 year old van was replaced with a new Honda Odyssey van in 2008. My wife likes a van for hauling people. The seats are NOT very easy to remove and they are much heavier. The timing belt needs to be replaced every 6 years on the Honda. Your video with the GM van brought back some memories.

Those were everywhere in the 1990s - surprising that so few are around today when they had such a good engine, but then, people back then didn't try to hold onto their cars. The only big downside of them (and this could be said for a _lot_ of 90's cars) is that they're not very safe in a head on collision. The front passenger space just kinda folds in on itself catastrophically. IIHS has some old footage of tests on them - it's not pretty. But again, a lot of 90's and older cars were that way, unfortunately.

These mid 80's to late 90's GMs are so simple to work on, and for the people who are looking for somebody to work on their older cars, I'm glad to see a modern shop take on the work. But $200/hour?!?!?! 😅🤣 More power to ya if you can get that kind of money, but wow...