93DirtyBird
Registered User
A couple weeks ago I was driving down the good ol' belt parkway in NY going about 70 when all of a sudden it felt like the car went into first gear. It started shaking badly and I couldn't get the car over 40mph. This would seem like a tranny problem but when I push the gas (no matter how hard), I dont get much more than 1000rpms and the supercharger whines like i'm racing it. At this time, the CEL would come on. Then after about 5-10 miles it would go back to normal for a couple of minutes and the CEL would go away.
I took it to the local place after seeing on the forum there were no notable SC mechanics nearby (Staten Island, NY). They replaced the fuel filter and coils and charged me a good $450 bucks and told me it still ran a little rough when it's been sitting for a while. I figured I could live with that so I took it home, but as I was on my way, the same f*cking thing happened. I took it back to them (mistake) and the next day they said that the car ran beautifully and they couldn't see anything wrong with it (but somehow when I started it up in front of them, the problem returned). I took it home, and I'm looking for a competent person to diagnose the problem before I put money into something that's not gonna fix it.
If anybody's got any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.
Cheers,
Rich
I took it to the local place after seeing on the forum there were no notable SC mechanics nearby (Staten Island, NY). They replaced the fuel filter and coils and charged me a good $450 bucks and told me it still ran a little rough when it's been sitting for a while. I figured I could live with that so I took it home, but as I was on my way, the same f*cking thing happened. I took it back to them (mistake) and the next day they said that the car ran beautifully and they couldn't see anything wrong with it (but somehow when I started it up in front of them, the problem returned). I took it home, and I'm looking for a competent person to diagnose the problem before I put money into something that's not gonna fix it.
If anybody's got any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it.
Cheers,
Rich