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07-10-2005, 05:27 AM | #1 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 65876
Join Date: Jul 2004
Chapter/Region:
TXIC
Location: Ft Collins, CO
Vehicle:06 WRX Wagon CGM |
so many problems
I bought this car used w/ 27,000 miles about two years ago and it has been such a pain... three weeks after i got it found out the tranny was bad, paid 4 g's for a new one from the factory, power steering pump went out, fixed it... THEN i started having these problems with the car bogging under acceleration, the dealership told me it was spark plugs, replaced and worked for a little while then bogging came back, thought a coil might have gone bad, so they swapped coil 1 and 3 but forgot to attach connector to one of them and told me to "go beat on it, and try to get that light {CEL} to come back on..." drove off and immediately hear pop and see black smoke, take it back to dealership and say ***... they tell me that the connector 'broke' and he had to zip tie it back on, so i leave again and eventually they told me it was an injector (***???) and so i paid to replace that, didn't work, and magically the ziptie was no longer there when i got the car back. eventually found out bad valves in cyl 1 and 3... ALL FROM SAME ORIGINAL PROBLEM!!! paid 1200 bucks to have engine torn down and valves replaced... while my car was being worked on at the dealership it sustained heavy hail damage over $4000 worth which they claimed no liability... well the engine ran fine for a month and now i have a CEL again, but no bogging, but sluggish acceleration (safe mode?)-- at autozone they said it was an 02 sensor, i replaced the one that you can see if you look under the car right behind front doors on exhaust... cel is still on... please help me... any input will help
oh and btw... my a/c compressor recently started locking up after trying to recharge, it had stopped blowing cold a couple days earlier. this couldn't be related to motor problems could it? or is it just that i need a new a/c compressor...
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07-10-2005, 05:31 AM | #2 |
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Member#: 82259
Join Date: Mar 2005
Chapter/Region:
BAIC
Location: koledge at csus
Vehicle:1999 impreza 2.2L Brilliant Red <4EAT Club> |
you got a lemon.
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07-10-2005, 05:39 AM | #3 |
Scooby Guru
Member#: 6971
Join Date: May 2001
Chapter/Region:
NWIC
Location: Edmonds, Washington, USA
Vehicle:2008 WRX STi SSM |
Actually it sounds kinda like that car may have been in some sort of accident if that many things are wrong with it at once. My old wrx was in a front end collision that busted the timing belt and cam pulleys, killing the valves. After the heads were rebuilt, the car was fine for about 30K miles, then the AC went out from an undiagnosed kink in the hard line from the accident. Knowing what I know about these cars and their owners, I'd NEVER buy a used WRX.
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