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Cheese Louise Silly Car
My car was acting odd. It has no juice when you hit the gas, but only when it's first started. Warmed up it's fine.
Place #1: Took it to the place where I bought it. Fair people, but they did didn't fix the issue. They said it was the timing belt, but it's $600 to handle that in addition to the $600 I just paid for a tune up. Um, no thanks.
Place #2: Took the engine apart for the timing belt. Timing belt was fine, almost new in fact, but they have no clue so they can't fix it. But only charged me one hour ($85) for the 5 hours it took to take the engine apart. Um, thanks? At least they're honest.
I called Place #1 back to bring it back in, but they never called me back. Oh well. You don't want to fix it, fine. I'm moving on then.
Place #3: Came highly recommended. Talked to the guy and the first thing he said, "There is no reason that problem would ever be your timing belt." This makes me feel better. Maybe someone can actually figure this out. And with any luck it's not expensive. If it is, Mama is getting a new car. Forget this hullabaloo.
My gut says something related to the fuel. Maybe even the catalytic converter. Acutally, I just like saying "catalytic converter". I'm not sure what it even does. Exhaust or something?
Re: Cheese Louise Silly Car
I'm not a car person but I do know that when your catalytic converter starts going, it lets off a rotten egg smell. Have you noticed that at all while driving? Your problem sounds a little like what I just had fixed with my car. It was the mass air flow sensor. Not the cheapest part in the world, but it wasn't too bad and it was easy for DH to replace himself. Of course, I'm sure no juice when first started could be from any number of problems, but I know that a few places had a hard time diagnosing it properly for me. Here's a little more info- http://www.samarins.com/glossary/airflow_sensor.html
All I know about cars comes from having crappy ones, and this isn't something I've dealt with before. No rotten egg smell though. Eww.
That site sounds like what's going on with my car.
I know it's to early to say if this guy can figure it out, but he seemed reasonable. Hopefully reasonable also means inexpensive and quick.
But you know what they say: There is cheap, quick, and easy; you can only have two of these qualities at the same time.
So true! Although, in my case, getting my car fixed did end up being much cheaper, quicker, and easier than I had thought. This time around anyway. Last year I had to pay $1200 for it to pass inspection. I was expecting it to be about the same this year, but it turned out that replacing the mass air flow sensor fixed all the problems my car was having. Although my check engine light came back on this morning, so maybe I'm being overly optimistic
I hope yours turns out to be no big deal.
Thanks. I hate paying money for cars. It's such a pain.
If this turns out to be something big I'm looking into a new car.
I also had to have this replaced in my '00 VW GTI when I was having the same issues.
Maybe it also has to do with the fuel injector?
The guy said narrowing it down may take the most time. Ugh.
I'll have to tell ya'll what I find out. Come oooon cheap repairs!