Billabong089
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I noticed two puddles of red fluid, I'm assuming ATF, so anyway before I noticed that, I noticed my car was kinda hard to start, the battery sounded weak, didnt think much of it, drove to the store and back. 1hr later, same thing, went to the school thats around my house. Park and shut off the car, thats where I noticed this smoke coming from the ebrake handle and the climate control panel, it didnt smell like anything or at least a burning smell ( could it be possible it was ATF burning or something , theres no way my car got that hot though, it was a brief drive )..., I grabbed my fire extinguisher just incase, but nothing, the smoke went away, when I went to start my car it read 9volts and wouldnt start, battery was dead, I ran home to get the jumper cables and another car and I noticed two puddles of ATF fluid like I said before in my drive way,, and i'm like hmmmm , I got the car to start by jumping it.
Drove it home, keeping it under 1500rpms just incase and I'm going to call cottmann trans and have them check the fluid, but im worried about driving it up there and is there anyway i can check the fluid myself??? its a 5spd manual... Would low trans fluid or something cause the starter to act funny? Ahhh
I'm so frustrated with this car, on top of that, I need a new accumlator and I need to fix the exhaust which I screwed up by backin into a curb lol... ahhh
Drove it home, keeping it under 1500rpms just incase and I'm going to call cottmann trans and have them check the fluid, but im worried about driving it up there and is there anyway i can check the fluid myself??? its a 5spd manual... Would low trans fluid or something cause the starter to act funny? Ahhh
I'm so frustrated with this car, on top of that, I need a new accumlator and I need to fix the exhaust which I screwed up by backin into a curb lol... ahhh
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