Worked on a 1999 Chevy Cavalier that we bought yesterday for my fiancé's son to replace his 2008 Ford Focus with a bad transmission. Car only has 117,603 miles on it and in pretty good shape. Has some rust on the passenger side next to the rear wheel and a little bit under the car near the back. It's a base model car with an automatic transmission, rollup windows, and pretty much nothing power. AC is very cold and it runs pretty good. Previous owner just put new AC-Delco plugs in it, new wires, a new battery, and did an oil change.
The rear driver's side wheel would lock up in the gravel driveway of the previous owner's home, so I figured the drum brake was not adjusted right. Today I pulled both rear wheels off of it and adjusted that side. Both set of brake shoes had plenty of pad left and had been replaced at some point.
Today I also replaced the fuel filter, gas cap, and coolant overflow reservoir cap which was broken. I'm going to change the transmission fluid and filter and replace both O2 sensors. The after-cat sensor took a long time to warm up and stayed near 0 for quite a while and the pre-cat one seemed to work okay but would occasionally drop near 0 during the test drive. No CEL or codes stored, and all monitors had run so no one had cleared any codes recently. Hopefully he doesn't destroy this car like he had done with the Focus but he probably will.
