My car has been good to me...in the 4 yrs I've had it, I bought it with high mileage (I believe somewhere around 150k miles) but I figured it would get me where I needed to go until I could save up for a new one and it was only $900.... The a/c didn't work and the power steering fluid was leaking, I'd have to put in a bottle every other week,
so I'd never expected it to last to long, but my dad ended up fixing my Power Steering, and things ran fine...
Well about a yr after buying it, my timing belt went out, I bought the belt and had this guy come and take it to fix it, I was only s'posed to pay him for 2 hrs labor and the towing fee, which I believe was $85 all together, well w/out my permission he put other belts on, they were ready to go out too "so he says" and charged me like $150 and said he only charged for the parts, not the labor since he'd done it without asking, anyway ok that's all i'd ever put into the car other than the basic stuff, gas, oil, ect...
2006-11-04 22:24:41 · 7 answers · asked by angel 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Well it began losing oil, not leaking or burning, but it was all over the motor,I'd have to put a quart in every week or so.. my brother told me it was missing the oil cap,well my nephew changed the oil, and filled it up, about a month or so later we were riding along, I began to hear a knock, and suddenly it started losing speed, it didn't want to accelerate, I barely made it home. My father happened to be outside and heard it, he said it could have threw a rod?...Well then he said if it threw a rod it wasn't going to go again, checked the oil, it had lost all the oil, it was empty, well we put oil in it, and the next day tried starting it, it started shaking,my car never shook before that at all, and still had a knock, not really loud but knocking still, but you could drive forward and it would stop shaking, but when we turned to go out of the drive it stalled, we managed to get it back into my parking spot, but if you tried backing out it would stall
2006-11-04 22:26:35 · update #1
now my car has over 300k miles, but it's a dodge and they've been known to last as much as 500k...
My Nephew (a mechanic) was visiting, my Dad swears it's the catalytic converter, my Nephew checked some things he thought it might be, the end result he said, was that it needed some wires or plugs, I never did quite get it straight, I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this same thing, and what the problem was with their car, if it's fixable, if so how expensive... or should I just junk it?
2006-11-04 22:28:06 · update #2
Sorry, but changing a few wires is not going to help at all.
To be honest, when it ran out of oil you fried the motor. Sorry, but the symptoms of it shaking and knocking are typical for a motor that's been half-cooked and partially seized up. Lots of damage has happened in there! If the rest of the car is still okay, you have two realistic choices:
1) Get an exchange, reconditioned 'long motor' fitted. This means a complete motor, but without the add on bits like the alternator, manifolds and so forth. It's just a complete but bare motor. The change over can be done in a single day by lots of places. They take out the old motor and swap all the outside bits onto the new one, drop it back in and tune it up and it's good for at least fifty thousand miles (usually) with no major problems. Shop around and you may get a pretty fair deal. (They keep the old motor and send it off for reconditioning, quite often.)
2) Get your own motor rebuilt. This will actually take more time and will wind up costing more. Perhaps 50 to 100 percent more, actually. Virtually everything will need to be redone. A rebore or resleeve, new crank, pistons, rods, all bearings, valves and guides, camshaft, oil pump, etc etc...
Otherwise, if the rest of the car is looking a bit tired, it's time (I'm sorry) to buy another car.
PS: To check prices, try googling 'exchange long motors' and then follow up on places in your area to get more details about your make and model. At least it's a popular make!
2006-11-05 01:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by Lenky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ran it out of oil then you most likely "spun a bearing" or threw a rod. The engine shaking sounds like it is out of balance, this will happen with a spun bearing or a thrown rod. With the high mileage of the vehicle and the what you paid for it, you got your money's worth. The car is not worth saving. You could buy another car for what the repairs would be.
2006-11-04 22:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had my share of $900 cars when i didn't have a license and the police would take them away... anyways it sounds as if your car needs more than plugs and wires. the oil all over the inside of your engine compartment is probably coming from a leaking gasket maybe the valve cover gasket if you can see the oil up top. The shaking and stalling you got me. well if you got 150k mi out of it good for you. its time for another.
2006-11-04 22:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by benzeeno619 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The running it out of oil a couple of times, rod knocking. Honey, you have ruiend the engine. Engines ALWAYS need oil.
2006-11-05 00:04:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's gone. 300k is ancient. 500k is usually exaggeration. The engine is gone and pouring any more money into it would be a large mistake.
2006-11-05 04:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like your car needs a new car.
2006-11-05 02:34:43 · answer #6 · answered by want2wild 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the motor is bad :-(
2006-11-04 22:28:47 · answer #7 · answered by tumbleweed1954 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋