syoonie
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- Sep 5, 2002
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Los Angeles,
California
Let me start from the beginning.
I have a 96 Eclipse GS
I was planning a trip out to vegas and I figured I should get an oil change and replace my rear 2 tires because they were completely bald.
They let me know that my spark plugs were bad and they were going to charge me $70 for them. I figured I didn't need them desparately because my car was running fine. But as soon as I left the car was shaking and misfiring so I ended up going to Kragen and doing it myself.
The drive out to vegas was fine until we stopped about 2.5 hrs at Baker for a bathroom break. I hear this rattling when I slow down, the rattling sound was coming from the timing belt/cam area.
I just took a chance and drove out to vegas because when I was going fast it would go away.
My car ended up dying in vegas and they towed it to a shop out there. They took it apart and thought it was a bad engine (i already replaced the engine 2 years ago). The tensioners were the culprits making the rattling sound, the rubber bearnings were completely chewed out.
They asked if I wanted to replace the water pump because they were replacing the timing belt and the tensioners anyway. I really didn't want to spend more money unless I needed to and when I asked they said the water pump looked pretty new, (I know they replaced the belt & water pump when they replaced the engine) so I just had them replace the belt and the tensioners.
I left my car with them in vegas and got a rental car back to LA. I went back last night to pick it up and it was running great until I started it after work.
It now makes this high pitched hissing.. hot kettle whistling sound when i start it. Then it stops. I just awnted to get home so I drove it 30 miles through traffic. It's quiet when i'm 2000+ rpms but between 0-1999 rpms it hisses.. sputters.. and the sound chokes up a bit right before it shuts up..
It started to smell like something was burning towards the end..
I realy don't want to go and get screwed over again.. i know I didn't ned to spend $800 for the timing belt & tensioners.
If anyone knows how to fix this probelm let me know!! I know I personally won't be able to do it but if I at least have some knowledge of what's going on it would be better than where i'm at now.
I have a 96 Eclipse GS
I was planning a trip out to vegas and I figured I should get an oil change and replace my rear 2 tires because they were completely bald.
They let me know that my spark plugs were bad and they were going to charge me $70 for them. I figured I didn't need them desparately because my car was running fine. But as soon as I left the car was shaking and misfiring so I ended up going to Kragen and doing it myself.
The drive out to vegas was fine until we stopped about 2.5 hrs at Baker for a bathroom break. I hear this rattling when I slow down, the rattling sound was coming from the timing belt/cam area.
I just took a chance and drove out to vegas because when I was going fast it would go away.
My car ended up dying in vegas and they towed it to a shop out there. They took it apart and thought it was a bad engine (i already replaced the engine 2 years ago). The tensioners were the culprits making the rattling sound, the rubber bearnings were completely chewed out.
They asked if I wanted to replace the water pump because they were replacing the timing belt and the tensioners anyway. I really didn't want to spend more money unless I needed to and when I asked they said the water pump looked pretty new, (I know they replaced the belt & water pump when they replaced the engine) so I just had them replace the belt and the tensioners.
I left my car with them in vegas and got a rental car back to LA. I went back last night to pick it up and it was running great until I started it after work.
It now makes this high pitched hissing.. hot kettle whistling sound when i start it. Then it stops. I just awnted to get home so I drove it 30 miles through traffic. It's quiet when i'm 2000+ rpms but between 0-1999 rpms it hisses.. sputters.. and the sound chokes up a bit right before it shuts up..
It started to smell like something was burning towards the end..
I realy don't want to go and get screwed over again.. i know I didn't ned to spend $800 for the timing belt & tensioners.
If anyone knows how to fix this probelm let me know!! I know I personally won't be able to do it but if I at least have some knowledge of what's going on it would be better than where i'm at now.
