I think the PT should have been built with better parts. I have a 2002 that had a front wheel bearing fail at 15 K .My wife has an 03 with one otter tie rod failure ,and at 60 K the rear trailing arm bushings are shot. My son has an 1989 Aries with 200 K that I bought new and it has two sets of shoes & pads ,and had the timing belt changed twice so far. I owned allot of K cars in the 80's and only thing you had to do is not let them over heat They should have used better materials on the Cruisers .One good thing is used parts will be easy to find .There was only one change to front fenders & head lights. I belong to a PT CROUSER club in north east Ohio and allot of members also own Chevy H H R s. I call them the big brother to the PT s.
Jerry