Hey y'all! I joined Reddit just to post in this sub because I'm not finding answers online. I have a friend who is selling a 2 door '94 Geo Tracker, in the nice yellow color (I believe it's a hard top), which frankly is my dream car (and was a pleasant surprise to find out). I live in a city so it would be used several times a month for day trips and stuff. Seriously considering this as my second car- my first was a rust bucket of a '97 Ford Taurus in college years ago (I do love seeing them on the road still!).

I have two questions for the Geo Tracker fam:

1- Are they safe (enough)? I've seen they didn't add airbags until 1996 but am a bit confused.

2- If properly maintained, are they trusty for a longer drive? My family lives 7 hours away driving and I have zero problems splitting the drive in two days (I will make anything into an adventure) and/or not using major highways. Or for a regional adventure.

Thank you from potentially Banana-Tracker! Or Geo-Banana. Spitballing haha

Edit- thank you all for your responses! I will consider all your advice.

Here are the pics of the rust in the floor that the seller sent me.

It's a 94

I’m in middle Tennessee and in the market for a tracker. Preferable automatic because of stop and go traffic, it’ll be an around town car to pair with the campervan I usually drive..
anyone selling? Or tips on where else to look besides facebook marketplace?

Hey all. Just bought a cheap 2003 Chevy tracker with 75k miles on it. It's ugly-as-sin beige, RWD, 4-door base model. It's got quite a few problems but lots of potential and no rust I could see.

Will be doing all fluids, brakes, tires, spark plugs, etc. It has an engine light on, the windows don't wind down, leaky valve cover, a motor mount that likely needs changing and I think it has a relay that intermittently clicks. No AC at all. Seems it broke a while back and was never hooked up.

Any problem items or common issues with these cars that should I get on top of?

Got my 2000 chevy tracker with no key and haven’t had the funds to take it to a locksmith. Is there any way of swapping the cylinder lock out with one that has a key?

Starts up fine but then immediately starts shaking and feels like a misfire . Super rough idle
I checked all plugs and those appear to be fine
Any ideas ?

Well after the complete update of fixing the $400 tracker my heart sank. While i was letting the car idle i decided to take it for a spin again.

Well i didnt notice anything going on then i reved the engine a lil and i heard it. Idk if it was a rod knock or a broken flex plate as after lots of research i learned they can sound similar. The knock is bad when the engine is at load not at idle.

Im praying it is not a bearing and a flexplate but im freaking out if anyone has any insite i would appreciate it.

Thanks

I'm in the Dayton area looking for an automatic Geo Tracker. 4WD preferred, let me know if anyone is selling anything within 150 miles or so.

Ok after paying $400 for the tracker. The owner claimed he couldnt get it to start after parking it since 2020. Well i just said screw it and took the gamble. I dragged it home last night and well today decided to dig in the engine a lil bit. Only to find a snapped timing belt was lucky my local auto part store had 1 in stock (really lucky) slapped it on and she cranked right up drove it around the block a few times and running great. Now on to the deep cleaning and painting i guess. Did not expect it to be that easy of a fix.

Looking for a second vehicle and I stumbled across a '98 Suzuki Sidekick Sport JLX. I love small 4x4s and was originally looking for a hardtop Tracker or Isuzu Amigo when I found this. The one I found has 43k miles. It's basically a museum piece. The only thing I don't love about the car is that it's an automatic. My question for those with experience is this:

Am I colossal idiot if I buy this car given that...

• It's a Sidekick Sport and that means potential issues sourcing parts and getting work done.
• Aftermarket support in general lacking for Suzuki compared to brands that still have a US presence.
• I'm handy but not a mechanic.

Whatever second vehicle I buy will have a dual use case: Driving myself a few miles to the train station to get to work a few times a week and serving as a fun off-pavement vehicle in New England - not a serious rock crawler or overland build.

If one were to “re locate” the charcoal canister could a cold air intake be ran here? I feel it’s a perfect opening and away from the manifold (going to be headers by the end of the week) the main draw back is the heat if it’s just installed right at the original air box/in that bottom right corner? Or am I forgetting something?

I plan to do the wonderful forbidden lowing and just a fun restoration show car. Was my gramps. I’ll get another for wheelin.

Hi all,
We inherited a 1995 geo tracker from our grandfather. Just made the 500 mi trip home from SoCal. She did great, well cared for mechanically… She has some mild rusting, and could use a coat of paint. However we had the unfortunate experience of losing the sun roof portion of our hard top on I5 @ 70 mph. It mostly survived. Our question is, can this be repaired? Thanks.

We also have the soft top, but it spent about 25 years in a garage and we’re not too keen on the condition of the fabric.

Off road mudders

My geo is ready to get work done. I have no car mechanic experience and diving into this head first. All advice is welcome. Cheers!

Just had the cable replaced in February and it was fine. Now in the summer, I notice that once I've driven a few miles it does not want me to get into gear 1 or 2. And forget about reverse. It will grind.

From a cold start, everything is great and smooth. I'm 99% that I just need to adjust the cable.

Green and blue arrows are towards the engine side and red is towards the rear for perspective.

Questions:

I adjust the red arrowed nut alone, correct?

If so, to engage the clutch more fully, I assume I tighten.

Also, if anyone knows what size wrench I need, that would be a help. I'm 160 miles from home :(

I looked at previous posts but I just would appreciate a little help from the community before I strand myself. Thank you!

Help: 1990 Geo Tracker 5spd 4x4 U.S.

The car starts fine, drives fine, but once it gets wanted to operating temperature, it starts to stumble and tries to die. if you let it die and not give it gas, it will not start again until it is completely cooled. usually and hour or two. repeat the cycle.

I’ve dialed it down to what i believe is the distributor. but probably is i can’t find one for the 89-90, only 91 and above but the plug in is different.

you can’t read codes, the switch under the dash, is missing completely, i’ve tried every possible way and technique to jumper for diag, fuse in the diag port all. Fuel pressure regulator, fuel pump, all vacuum lines, tps, ect pretty much near everything replaced.

any help would be appreciated?
help finding a distributor as well

Thank You!

new smoke azule taillights 89-96 tracker or sidekick totaled mine before they got here

just picked one up and its my first manual. its one of the 2 door rear wheel drive convertibles and im curious about the best rpm to shift gears. i’ve generally been pushing it up to 25-35 but its usually a bit jumpy. it also doesn’t seem to like down shift to 1st unless i’ve completely stopped and occasionally it doesnt wanna shift into reverse. think it might need a new clutch or trans?
anyways thats really it other than trying to source the soft top trims for one of these later trackers. (if ya got any info on that please lmk)

I picked up this Deepwoods inc hard top the other day and need some brackets for it. Any info on where to get anything that will work would be greatly appreciated.

I did the front fenders and now I did the rears. I’m stoked on how they are turning out. Can’t wait to start filling and smoothing them out.

Hi all, I got a 96 here that I just got last fall and the seat was latched and fine but I pulled it forward once and now it will not latch again. No matter what I do.

I’ve taken off the shroud and everything and not found any reason for this, but the rear passenger escape handle and cable on the left has no tension on it as well as the cable that’s in the middle. This doesn’t seem right.

Has anyone dealt with this?