Tech_Greek
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Can my life get any better with this damn car?
I go to start it on Friday and it starts fine - let it warm up then go to back out of the driveway however when I start to make a turn it makes a creaking noise, almost like fingernail against black board type of sound; I then pulled back into the driveway killed it and took my Galant this weekend.
The weekend goes by, I have my fun and forgot ALL about the damn creaking noise and I went to start it tonight and guess what?
My car is STRUGGLING to turn over! It fires and I shrug it off to the under-drive pulley and go to MickeyD's (at which point that horrible noise came back to haunt me) - came home, ate a little bit then my room mate asked me to move my car.
Go to start it up, nothing - the lights turn off when I try to start it and the battery is basically dead (I barely had enough juice to close the moon roof).
SO, here I am, completely broke because of the battery, tires, UCAs, and maintenance that I've had to perform out of the blue because it hasn't gone so well with the car and all of this starts to happen.
At this point, I'm ready to either sell the thing, or take it out to a field and light the son of a *i@#% on fire and watch it burn.
Time to pour even more money into it...
1) The battery is brand new - I'm guessing this means the alternator isn't charging right (which I'm going to try to test tomorrow, but I doubt it will even start to have him test it, so I'm assuming its bad).
2) The rack does this noise whether the car is off or on - so I know its not the pump. Are there bushings or something that are known to go out? Every other bushing up front is pretty much shot so it wouldn't surprise me if there is bushings that I don't know about; once I start going in the car and I'm not anywhere near slow speeds it no longer makes the noise - could it be the bushing?
[ RANT OVER ]
I go to start it on Friday and it starts fine - let it warm up then go to back out of the driveway however when I start to make a turn it makes a creaking noise, almost like fingernail against black board type of sound; I then pulled back into the driveway killed it and took my Galant this weekend.
The weekend goes by, I have my fun and forgot ALL about the damn creaking noise and I went to start it tonight and guess what?
My car is STRUGGLING to turn over! It fires and I shrug it off to the under-drive pulley and go to MickeyD's (at which point that horrible noise came back to haunt me) - came home, ate a little bit then my room mate asked me to move my car.
Go to start it up, nothing - the lights turn off when I try to start it and the battery is basically dead (I barely had enough juice to close the moon roof).
SO, here I am, completely broke because of the battery, tires, UCAs, and maintenance that I've had to perform out of the blue because it hasn't gone so well with the car and all of this starts to happen.
At this point, I'm ready to either sell the thing, or take it out to a field and light the son of a *i@#% on fire and watch it burn.
Time to pour even more money into it...
1) The battery is brand new - I'm guessing this means the alternator isn't charging right (which I'm going to try to test tomorrow, but I doubt it will even start to have him test it, so I'm assuming its bad).
2) The rack does this noise whether the car is off or on - so I know its not the pump. Are there bushings or something that are known to go out? Every other bushing up front is pretty much shot so it wouldn't surprise me if there is bushings that I don't know about; once I start going in the car and I'm not anywhere near slow speeds it no longer makes the noise - could it be the bushing?
[ RANT OVER ]
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