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Car rant thread (pg. 3)
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by kid nyce
check your emergency brake, you might be driving with it on LOL |
haha, that would suck, huh? for a while, the light would only stay on in cold temps... once it got near 60ºF it would go off. now it stays on all the time, but i didn't notice any difference in the way the car drives, which is why i haven't gotten it checked out. |
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| colonelcrisp |
| sorry slylee, but this is hillarious just based on the fact taht replaceing rotors and pads should take no more than 20mins per wheel... no matter what make the car is. mechanics shops always make me laugh because when i do have to bring my car there, usually wehn i dont ahve the time to fix things myself, they try to tell me everything that "needs" to be fixed on my car, and yet tehy miss the big time important things. ie, last time i brought my car in, had to get a transaxle installed as i dont have a hoist at home and working in my driveway on a creeper mid january in ottawa is uncomfortable at best, they told me i should replace my intake snorkle as it had a crack in it and was impeding performance or some bull.... which was why i ducttaped it, but they missed the fact that both front struts (the shocks) were ed, beyond ed actually, and i was missing the entire exhuast system past the collector pipe...... mechancis can be retards especially at the big chains like speedy and midas |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
wtf?! what kind of car do you drive? |
Lexus LS 400
| quote: | Originally posted by kid nyc
o2 sensor's are a mechanic's greatest line, that means they are pulling a fast one over your head. You probably got a CEL (check engine light) on your dash and took it in to get it checked out. An o2 sensor usually resides near our Catalytic Converter, it measure the o2 coming out of your engine and then throws a light if there is an irregularity in o2 (rich or lean). Well to get o2, it's a combination of gas and air (Air/Fuel Ratio), alot of times there are small things that throw a CEL for o2, internal combustion when you step on it/floor it your car runs rich with gas and lean with air throwing a CEL. Most if not all the time an o2 sensor can throw a CEL for really stupid things, even a rock knocking the cat can throw a CEL for o2.
He might charge you for a replacement o2 sensor and really just reset your CEL, go under your car and clean the sensor casing a bit to make it seem like its brand new. So essentially he didn't replace anything, just reset your CEL so it doesn't appear and wait it out. If you come back within a given period of time with an o2 sensor issue or another CEL, he'll probably then go ahead and change it for you without any cost as if he's warranting on labor.
There are plenty of things that can affect an o2 sensor from throwing a CEL, under carriage knocking, internal combustion, bad gas, unclean air filter, just a bunch of things. Hope I educated you on what I know at least, and i'm pretty sure i didn't touch upon all the specifics here (someone else can do it) and i might not even be fully correct, just that my knowledge of cars stems back a few years since I haven't owned a vehicle in over 4 years (I moved into Manhattan and take the train every day =P).
Good luck =) |
I am very aware of the situation. What happened was the front one had gone bad, and attempting to clean them to get them to work 2 weeks ago.. I f'de up the second. In the lex engine bay, things are not easy at all to get to, and there is almost too much to take apart. Parts alone are about 150 each. (Cheapest online I found was 139) Labor is 115 an hour +taxes and such. Ran me actually about 668 (close enough to 7 bills). The sensors were bad because my gas milage went to pot. I used to average 18city/24HW and it went down about 10 and 13. My car was running way to rich... and you could even see that in the oil. It was a thick slutty black even though the oil had been changed about 500 miles back.
To end, I agree with you 100% of the way on all of what you said. I knew my problems and everything is now back to norm (not just untripping the CEL light). |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Hasneez
Lexus FTW |
Read my post. You wont be happy with the cost of repairs. |
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| tiesto14 |
| serves you right for going to Pep Boys...its a frachise what do you expect. |
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| DigitalMP |
| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
serves you right for going to Pep Boys...its a frachise what do you expect. |
is that like fratiesto? |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalMP
is that like fratiesto? |
ya....you ing herb. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
wow, thanks for writing all of that out... my CEL has been on in my car for about a year now, and i haven't gotten it fixed because the code that comes up when they checked it for me (420, haha) means the o2 sensors were setting it off. they told me it wasn't something that required fixing, just as long as i didn't care about having the CEL light always staring me in the face.
here's a more perplexing question though... ever since i got new tires put on my car last fall, my Parking Brake light has been stuck on ever since, even when the brake is disengaged.
so yah... i've got the CEL light and the parking brake light stuck on all the time but the car runs fine! |
yeah check the e-brake as kid nyce said, but also get the whole braking system checked out
my break pads were almost copmletely worn down and before it became noticable, the brake light went on
which i thought it was the 'emergency brake light it on' light, but i mean it just says '! brake'
which just means there's something really exciting going on with your braking, emergency or not |
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| Hasneez |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Nut_
Read my post. You wont be happy with the cost of repairs. |
I agree.. lexus can be costy (even though its Japanese car) but this is what u should expect from a luxury car! |
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| DigitalMP |
| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
ya....you ing herb. |
Me:
makes bad jokes
You:
can't spell
likes Republicans
I win. |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalMP
Me:
makes bad jokes
You:
can't spell
likes Republicans
I win. |
Dude you are friggen tool - plain and simple.
Like you NEVER had a typo? Maybe i should search all of your past posts and see...
So what if i like Republicans? Obviously you know jack about Rudy cus he is very liberal. But you wouldnt know that cus you are from upstate...now run along bitchass....you Seinfeld looking herb. |
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| DigitalMP |
LMFAO! Settle down Mr. Sensitive; did you just Nair your nuts or something?
I'll probably vote for Rudy anyways, I like the guy. I'm just not very happy with the GOP right now.
But yeah, tiesto c'est le fromage. |
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