Well, just the other day I get a call from the wife while I'm at work and she says the cars making a bump-bump noise everytime she hits a bump and wants to know why. "Uh....I don't know from you just saying it goes bump-bump, dear. I'll have to look at it when I get home" It ends up being that the torsion mounts are broke and the center diff is smacking against the Tranny cross member. This pissed me off because the car was just inspected last week. I also noticed what looked like gear oil all over the middle underside of the car.
Took the car to the stealership and told them to also pull the codes off the puter because I'm sick of staring at the CEL. I get the call back and there's a huge list of problems. Biggest thing is that they say what I thought was gear oil is tranny fluid and that the TC is seized and the tranny's all burned up. They want to replace it (fuck you). The engine is also eating coolant and the guy says something about the intake gasket. I actually laughed. Unless I know nothing about it I don't think a bad intake manifold gasket is going to cause the engine to eat coolant.
Maybe he meant to say head gasket but I think they're just idiots because it was all steming from a "low coolant" code. Uh ya asshat, I had o replace the water pump because it was leaking! Old code fucknut. Also has a bad O2 sensor and blah-de-la-de. They quote me $5000 to fix the car. I tell him to piss off, fix the torsion mount, top off the fluids and give me my car back so I can go dump that GM piece of shit some where else. HE starts saying that I should trade it in there. Ya, ok, let me buy another huge royal POS from you, I think not.Pretty ironic that we decide to get rid of this car and it takes a huge shit on us just before we can dump it. We're probably going to lose our asses on it.
In the last year we've replaced the water pump, ps pump, fuel pump, fuel filter, front axle seals, rear axle seals, torsion mounts and then the tranny craps out and the O2 sensor (not that big of a deal). Fuckin' GM piece of shit.
We're looking to trade it in on either a '97 Outback that we found. 97k, listed for $7,995. Or a 2000 Xterra with 92k, listed for $10,890. I really want a 4runner but we can't find one at a good price. The Outback is nice (except it's 4eat), the Xterra is really nice but I still would like to have the subie because I can do all the service myself and save a butt load on down the road. If I had my way I'd put my gal in an older wagon (something under $4k) until we can get back on our feet because we're drowning financialy.
Oh by the way, no ECO, that's what you get for driving a gas guzzling, mammoth vehicle bullshit, please. In my state of mind I'm liable to hunt you down, cut every tree near your house down and spike your water supply with benzene.
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