Ok. Started my car this morning, and a sound that I thought maybe I was just imagining before was very apparent. Bearing knock. now, after the car warmed a bit, I could no longer hear it at idle, but it becomes apparent if I lightly rev the engine to 3K or when I am accelerating and hit revs above 3/3.5K.
I bought this car after my Oldsmobile Calais broke down for the 6th time. I wanted a car that had minor maintence, meaning a newer ('96) and fuel injection (duh.. newer cars all most all injected, but whatever).
Bought the car off a smaller independant dealer last july. A/C didn't work right, he told me that they just had the A/C pump replaced, and didn't charge it yet (dumb me there, my fault for believeing that).
So I ended up replacing the evaporator in the car. okok... one repair, cost me $200 total because I did it myself. A/C now works great.
Replaced front struts, tie rod ends, and right front wheel bearing, when I got new tires. the tire shop said the car would chew through a set if I didn't do that.
Made new bushings as described for the front steering rack. the old rubber grommets were shot.
first month of school... (september/october)... water pump/idler pulley/timing belt combo... overheat on hiway, blew the head gasget too.
Halloween weekend, tranny died, when to limp mode, and all the seals were shot.
4 attempts later, the tranny place gets the repair done right.
Air bag light came on 3 weeks ago.. haven't gone in to get that looked at, ($60 just for a diagnoses on that sucker!!!!)
Gas mileage is in the shitter right now. getting under 20 on the hiway (280 miles for 15 gallons of gas)
This morning, bearings (mains or rod, I don't know which).
I have done nothing but treat this car well.
I have been doing oil changes with mobil 1/valvolene synthetic oil every 2-3K miles (I wanted to get whatever was in there before out of there, or the car was being repaired and it needed a more frequent change interval). I have replace the filters. before the tranny repair, I changed the Tranny fluid with MOPAR ATF+3 fluid and a genuine MOPAR filter. kept the tire pressure at a constant 35 PSI. always kept mid-grade or premium fuel in the tank. Greased all the fittings... blah blah...
Why do my cars all goto ****!?!?
I don't drive very hard (compared to my roomate, who has a '95 beretta.. he gives that car hell and the worst thing that happened is a heater core seal leak.. cost him $75 to fix that).
bah!
any comments/info would be appreciated.
thanks
lafrad
I bought this car after my Oldsmobile Calais broke down for the 6th time. I wanted a car that had minor maintence, meaning a newer ('96) and fuel injection (duh.. newer cars all most all injected, but whatever).
Bought the car off a smaller independant dealer last july. A/C didn't work right, he told me that they just had the A/C pump replaced, and didn't charge it yet (dumb me there, my fault for believeing that).
So I ended up replacing the evaporator in the car. okok... one repair, cost me $200 total because I did it myself. A/C now works great.
Replaced front struts, tie rod ends, and right front wheel bearing, when I got new tires. the tire shop said the car would chew through a set if I didn't do that.
Made new bushings as described for the front steering rack. the old rubber grommets were shot.
first month of school... (september/october)... water pump/idler pulley/timing belt combo... overheat on hiway, blew the head gasget too.
Halloween weekend, tranny died, when to limp mode, and all the seals were shot.
4 attempts later, the tranny place gets the repair done right.
Air bag light came on 3 weeks ago.. haven't gone in to get that looked at, ($60 just for a diagnoses on that sucker!!!!)
Gas mileage is in the shitter right now. getting under 20 on the hiway (280 miles for 15 gallons of gas)
This morning, bearings (mains or rod, I don't know which).
I have done nothing but treat this car well.
I have been doing oil changes with mobil 1/valvolene synthetic oil every 2-3K miles (I wanted to get whatever was in there before out of there, or the car was being repaired and it needed a more frequent change interval). I have replace the filters. before the tranny repair, I changed the Tranny fluid with MOPAR ATF+3 fluid and a genuine MOPAR filter. kept the tire pressure at a constant 35 PSI. always kept mid-grade or premium fuel in the tank. Greased all the fittings... blah blah...
Why do my cars all goto ****!?!?
I don't drive very hard (compared to my roomate, who has a '95 beretta.. he gives that car hell and the worst thing that happened is a heater core seal leak.. cost him $75 to fix that).
bah!
any comments/info would be appreciated.
thanks
lafrad