Car problems

PJ_Saluki

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

intodeep

Damn man that sucks. I'm so sorry about your bad luck.

I've had my share of car trouble and i can tell you it sucks and i hate it for you.

hopefully you can get it fixed without having to hand over your arm or leg to pay for it!

EvilMerlin

I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. That's a shitty day, at least you're working through it though. It'll all turn around.

Sorry about your car though as well.

It's funny how things work out with cars. I have a Ford Focus Zx3 that has the hardest 70K miles on it ever. I've beat the shit out of that car, redline it constantly, taken it out in the desert, all sorts of crap. Never had an issue. Never even do regular oil changes with it. Just whenever I get around to it.

And I've had a Lexus ES, and that thing wanted to crap out with any little trouble. Oh well, I sold it and its out of my hands now, I was going to get a new car, but I'm so attached to that beat up Focus that I don't want to get rid of it. So I'll decide by next month whether I keep it or just have two cars.

the wolf

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

your car died on good friday? dont worry, it will come back to life on sunday.

Get_Right

bummer man
cars are the single greatest expense (providing zero return) in my life
go japanese next time around!

iluvcats

does that mean you were driving without oil? a quick oil change place evidently started my car w/o the oil then put it in....my engine tapped. After a month I took it to the dealer (in 2003) and they wanted too much money to replace the engine. I got a new car but my husband eventually replaced the other car's engine.

Good luck.

Pacomc79

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

I had that happen in my old honda, The balance shaft seal broke and ripped everything else out. Hemmoraging oil all over. never quit of course... brilliant Honda goodness, though of course I continued to pour oil in it over the weekend.

CHeck and see if there are some recalls. This could definately qualify. Sorry about the trouble. i know how much that sucks.

PJ_Saluki

the wolf wrote:

your car died on good friday? dont worry, it will come back to life on sunday.

OK, that was hilarious. To quote Washington Post sports gadfly Norman Chad: "Pay the man, Shirley."

patrickredeyes

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

Today I dropped $600 on new muffler and new pipes. More then what I wanted to spend but I need a safe car to drive. Sorry to hear about your car as well.

the wolf

PJ_Saluki wrote:

OK, that was hilarious. To quote Washington Post sports gadfly Norman Chad: "Pay the man, Shirley."

thank you, thank you, ill be here all week. : )

samick

Get_Right wrote:

bummer man
cars are the single greatest expense (providing zero return) in my life
go japanese next time around!

sidekicks are foreign made........korea or japan i forget..........

SPEEDY MCCREADY

patrickredeyes wrote:

Today I dropped $600 on new muffler and new pipes. More then what I wanted to spend but I need a safe car to drive. Sorry to hear about your car as well.

$600 on a muffler????

where did you go?????
what year and make do you drive????

patrickredeyes

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

$600 on a muffler????

where did you go?????
what year and make do you drive????

Muffler and the main exhaust pipe that goes all the way down the middle of the car. It was also rusted and was gonna have to be replaced soon. Also did a oil change. I took it to Midas this morning. Hey my car is payed for so this wasn't so bad. My car makes no noise now. I can creep up on people now. lol

1998 Chevy Malibu LS

Cosmo

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

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Yikes!!! Oil is like blood... if either belongs to you and it's on the concrete... that's not good.
Did you notice the Oil Pressure, Oil Temperature or Oil Level guage on your dashboard in the RED? Did the 'check Engine' light go on (along with any other red lights) pop up? Did you check the oil level before the tow truck hauled it away? Was it empty?
Hopefully, the worst that happened was you lost your oil (for whatever reason) and your car's computer shut it down before too much damage was done. What you don't want is the oil on the ground caused by a rod cracking through the case.
Sorry to hear that. Hope it all works out.

South of Seattle

I've got a new torque converter to replace sooner than later That's almost $2000 to fix.

LONGRD

Get_Right wrote:

bummer man
cars are the single greatest expense (providing zero return) in my life
go japanese next time around!

Hell yeah, Toyota and Honda FTW!

samick wrote:

sidekicks are foreign made........korea or japan i forget..........

Suzuki's aren't really Japan's best.

samick

LongRd. wrote:

Suzuki's aren't really Japan's best.

but they are japanese none-the-less.........

PJ_Saluki

Just found out I need a new engine, which effectively means I need a different automobile. I'm honestly considering not even getting a car. I can do plenty of writing jobs from my apartment, though I also have to travel to different towns to cover sports. I really hate cars.

the wolf

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Just found out I need a new engine, which effectively means I need a different automobile. I'm honestly considering not even getting a car. I can do plenty of writing jobs from my apartment, though I also have to travel to different towns to cover sports. I really hate cars.

its getting warmer, ride a bike.

Spunkie

PJ_Saluki wrote:

Man, so much for Good Friday! I was driving home from my mom's place this morning and my Sidekick crapped out. It just died while I was driving it. Luckily, I had enough forward momentum to coast into a gas station parking lot. After I got into the lot I checked under my car. Every drop of oil was splashed all over the concrete and my engine was smoking. Funny thing is, I take good care of my vehicle. Guess that doesn't matter. I had to call a tow truck to take it to a garage. They said they wouldn't be able to get to it until Monday. I've got to cover baseball games this weekend with no sled. I had a magazine due by 2 p.m. today. It was an 11,000-word flak piece on a city in Texas. Screwing around with my vehicle cost me about two hours. I got it done somehow, but now I've realized that most of my check for that job is going to be spent on getting my bucket back into service. Grrrrrrr to cars!

I'm moving closer to my office so I can walk to work. Grrr to cars!