car service question

[Arletta]

Buy a new car

[Danzig]

yeah, haha.

i don't want to buy another, and after shelling out over 1k, i expect it to be fixed. and wasting my time along with my money and gas. very frustrating.

i almost wonder if theyre just disconnecting the battery, fiddling around...and of course taking off the battery resets the check enginr light. do they think they magically fixed it? surely they know it resets..

anyway, anyone been thru similar have helpful ideas?

[geeker2]

^^^^^^

Hoping for Obama Executive Order to solve

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, haha.

i don't want to buy another, and after shelling out over 1k, i expect it to be fixed. and wasting my time along with my money and gas. very frustrating.

i almost wonder if theyre just disconnecting the battery, fiddling around...and of course taking off the battery resets the check enginr light. do they think they magically fixed it? surely they know it resets..

anyway, anyone been thru similar have helpful ideas?

My Mom's car did that and it ended up being a sensor that needed replaced.

[steve]

have you recently had your oil changed then the light came on?

[MaTH716]

Usually the car dealers all have a main number to deal with technical issues/service issues. I would get the number for that and have a nice conversation with them. Also is there another dealer in the region to bring the car to?

[santana]

My mechanic. who i would put against anyone.especially the dealers, told me not to worry about my check engine light being on. That was 20 k miles ago. He is right, no problems, just the light comes on, as someone said it is just a sensor ....
Why are you bringing your car to a dealer ? Unless you enjoy getting ripped off ?

[Danzig]

took the car to the dealer because we weren't sure if it would be under warranty, and because they would give us a loaner. at the time, my daughter had my other car...so i had to have something. also, there's a distinct lack of decent mechanics in this area. i wouldn't have these area mechanics work on my lawn mower.
if it weren't for it idling rough, and the stall, i would have ignored it.
i keep going back now because they have my money that i paid, and i expect to have the damn thing fixed since i paid to have it fixed.

there's no way that other parts keep going bad, which tells me everything they've done so far was NOT what was wrong, that the engine light is coming back on due to it being enough days since reset, and they have not found the problem yet.
we will be calling them in the morning, guess i'll see what happens.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Usually the car dealers all have a main number to deal with technical issues/service issues. I would get the number for that and have a nice conversation with them. Also is there another dealer in the region to bring the car to?

problem yesterday is that no one was available, it being sat. evening....

steve, not sure, but i'll found out how long ago that was done.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by Danzig

problem yesterday is that no one was available, it being sat. evening....

steve, not sure, but i'll found out how long ago that was done.

What comes up when they put a scan tool on it?

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Duvalier

What comes up when they put a scan tool on it?

Couple months ago my truck was diagnosed and the gas cap was one of two codes that came up. Mechanic said to stop filling up with it running and put a new cap on at no cost. As someone said here earlier, it sounds like it may be an oxygen sensor. That or the fuel injectors.

Pray it's not foul fuel.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Duvalier

What comes up when they put a scan tool on it?

that's the thing, each time it goes back, then its a new thing they find. but i dont believe them at this point at all, since i have a hard time thinking new things keep going bad within days of them 'fixing' something. also, the first time they had it, they said they found something in thefuel system, and replaced it. they recommended a fuel system cleaning, so we did that. now i just feel ripped off.