You can try to climb every mountain, but in the end you get a peak that you can’t tame. Just like the climbing of the mountains, car repairs and maintenance are also. You really want to try to do everything for your car, but you just can’t. Anyway, that’s why God invented the car mechanics and what do you try to get those nice people out of a job? Of course not!
Earlier this week I asked you for attempted repair -jobs and failed. Some of you gave up your cars while others mixed together, switch mechanics and tactics until you could save your baby. You all had a story to tell, so enjoy scrolling by some of my favorite entries. Happy Wrenching!
The Camaro must go to a better technician
In the 1980s I had a second-gen Camaro with the (obscure) 229-V6. On a day, when it needed regular maintenance, I brought it to our family mechanic. He replaced the spark plugs and charged me $ 12.00 or $ 1.50 each Plugs for my six-cylinder car.
Which was bad enough. But then he told me that the car had a worn camshaft, that’s why he didn’t shot one cylinder. I cannot remember that he gave me an estimate of that repair, but after a while, who drove it on five cylinders, something told me to replace the plugs he put in (on that engine, it was a test – it had to go under the car to reach some of them). I discovered that one of the plugs had bent his side electrode to touch the middle electrode – so that the plug could not shoot. When I rank the plug again, the car ran well.
I found another technician.
From Joe Stricker
Was not specific about which mustang, so I decided it is this one
It was an old Mustang that I loved, and I thought “well that’s not too much rust”
From Cweels
BMW -Pain
Mine was not too much for me to handle. It was too much for my wallet.
My E60 M5 (yes, a 6-speed gearbox) started to perform around the last New Year. I had it 5 years and it was about 90 km. After I had dropped a few thousand in the store to take care of injectors and other things, I saw the blue cough of death in the rearview mirror while I was sitting at a traffic light.
After I dug around a bit, the store found scoring on cylinder 1. A rebuild was needed, and after shopping I decided to let it go.
I miss it.
From Jordan Sangerman
What did we learn? Bimmers will break you
My last car, 2014 BMW 335 xDrive, thought it was great and the manual was super fun, had it for 10 years and 150 km. It is the only real error (usual with other AWD BMWs) the transfer case that starts to shiver under gear. It can go for a long time before it finally gives up, and I had replaced it at 80k miles for a cost of slightly less than $ 4K.
5-year-old years later and I am almost 150k mile, the signs of upcoming failure are back. I really didn’t want to give up the car, but had to be realistic. I did not receive a quote for a second replacement, but after 5 years of inflation it was probably at least $ 5K, the car was worth $ 8k. That solution would have received me another 70-80k miles, so another 4-5 years, but what would come up with that mileage (although the powertrain was super reliable) that could make a complete waste? And if I extended my property for so much longer, I would like to do a number of other innovations of parts that showed their age, ie faded out plastic and gum -like interior rubber.
It was just not worth it and I finally exchanged it, but I still wonder if I should have exchanged my convertible and the BMW had saved as a weekend car. I undoubtedly love my current car, but that BMW was so perfect.
From Wilamanuelalpharomero
You know my pain
I replaced an alternator in a 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan. The same as the ’05 T&C. I did it without lifting it and dropping the engine, and waiting with my family patiently to go home, a two -hour ride. I had to invent tools to do it. I also replace the starter in that car, on the 3rd floor of a parking garage, in an icy windy January evening. It was a nightmare. It took hours. But I did it. Worse was a steering column in an Oldsmobile Achieva from ’97. It was too hard and too expensive, $ 1K for the part, $ 1K for labor, and that was 2010 money. He put an end to that car run. All this led me to get a job as a car salesman, to repair my credit, to repair my broken relationship with cars. Now I went through 6 Jeep Wranglers in a decade. Never go more than 10 km before I exchange it because I can do it. I spend my teenage years up to mid -40s in junk cars the road from the road on the road.
From Dad Chris
A whole Audi takes out an AC
I had an Audi A4 from 2001 for about 10 years. Loved the thing and it was almost unspoilt. Around 100 km kilometers the AC no longer worked and was diagnosed as a leak in a component deep in the dashboard. I looked at around $ 3000 costs to repair it. (In principle, the entire dashboard had to be released). I also started to get a cell occasionally after feeding the car, so that of course gave me a little extra concern. The book value of the car was around $ 6,000 at that time and I was also at the point where my eye wandered to new cars. So it went on Craigslist and I sold it for $ 5500.
Buddy’s
Another bites the rust
The first brand new car I ever had was a Mitsubishi Mirage from ’02. I lived in a cheap apartment complex in the west of Pa (where our seasons can be described as summer, autumn, winter and still winter), where the idea of the landlord to plow the parking spaces was to create a path, but all snow for the actual spaces. After 8 years of driving over small salty snow posts I went to work one day and the car is much louder than normal, so I think I have a hole in the outlet. It turned out that everything from the distribution piece to the exhaust was pretty poorly corroded and replaced on the way. I don’t remember the exact quote to repair it, but it was about double what the car was really worth at the time, so I sold it as scrap and used the money to buy a new lancer.
From Mike Szekely
You must have your principles
9th generation Honda Accord V6 has a starting problem in which it slowly destroys the flywheel. In fact, they had to drop the engine to remove the gearbox and install a new flywheel and a new starter. The work was more expensive than the part and both combined were almost the same as buying the same used car. This is a known problem with Honda, but they have never published a recall.
But I refuse to give up my V6!
From KP
Rust is the enemy
2000 Subaru Outback
One day driving to work, the brakes went out. I kept calm and shifting through the gears (manual FTW) and finally e-brackish to stop. Brought it to a familiar store where they gave me further to tell me that my braking lines rowed together. Oh great. They then said that the Gastank was kept exclusively by Roest. At that time I cut my losses by car and I never learned to buy a car from the north (I looked over the car before I bought, but it was late and it was in a parking lot)
Van Bricktop252
A heartbreaking situation
Two months ago I sold my beloved 2008 Volvo V70 car (197k miles and still solid, quiet and flexible running) when the windscreen wipers and associated control switches went based on the steering column, which would have been around $ 1500 to repair. I had confirmed many good memories of that car, but it was time.
From Jimmieg
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