When will it stop

a reply to: ketsuko

I should have known because I had a Chrysler car before and hated it but I needed a car so bad at the time I bought it without thinking and my ex didn't offer any help either so I had to get what I found at the time. Yet he loved to complain about the car! AHH hence one of many reasons for the divorce lol.


On most older cars I can do basic stuff to them. I always joke to my Uncle who is a mechanic that when I have a house I am going to have man tools and learn to work on my Mustang and cars. I find that stuff to be a good skill to have but some of the newer cars are all computerized, screw that! I like my Mustang. It's easy to work on and cheap which is why my mechanic is fixing it first.


The timing belt is what went on the PT but if my old mechanic actually put an engine in it in 8/2013 he would have put a new belt on like he said and clearly he didn't! I barely put 10k on the car since! I am so livid and when i get my Mustang back I will be going to their shop with my invoice and demanding to see their receipts of the engine which my mechanic and uncle said they should have attached to the invoice. If they lied omg I will get a lawyer no joke. We paid $2800 for an engine and they had it almost a month! I wanted it towed to my regular mechanic but it was too far for insurance to cover so I had to take it to the one i had where I was moving from. I hope they didn't lie and it's just a misunderstanding but there is no way that belt should have gone if it were new. I'm asking my mechanic to keep it so I can see it and take it to the ones who supposedly replaced it.

originally posted by: asmall89
a reply to: mblahnikluver

Hey there,

First off I'm sorry for your situation I imagine it is very difficult for you right now. ATS I feel is always a good place for advice and criticism... even if we don't like what we hear.



I would see if you know anyone that knows how to fix a fuel pump and replace a battery on the Mustang. Do you happen to know anyone who works at a car parts store? Those guys are pretty car savvy and typically wouldn't charge as much as a mechanic and are usually more honest lol.

Both cars are at my mechanic who I have gone to since I was 18. I moved away for a few years and the mechanic there worked on my PT. My current mechanic that i have known for 18 years is AWESOME! He is fixing the Mustang for me and has always been reasonable and worked out a payment plan. It just sucks both are there right now and I can't work or go anywhere. He will address the PT next and I will just either fix the belt or sell it as it. I prefer to roll it into traffic lol.

Anyway, the battery is easy and should be the very first thing you replace! A lot of times the reason why a car won't start is simply because the battery is dead. In your case that makes perfect sense because car batteries die if they sit for a long period of time. Depending on how honest your mechanic is your fuel pump may not even need replaced.

No the car sat and it needs a fuel pump. He put a battery in it and did all the checks on it back when I had it towed to him. I trust him 100% and the battery is dead. The old battery is actually in the PT. I was going to trade it in for a new one. I had the Mustang towed to my mechanic back in February because I knew I was going to sell the PT and keep the Mustang. I knew the Mustang needed a battery, tires and regular maintenance since it was sitting. I never expected the PT to crap out!!! So it sucks they both aren't working, at least one isn't a big deal. I didn't expect the fuel pump but even my uncle said with it sitting and the age that it's not uncommon. It honestly doesn't bother me. I've had that car 7 yrs now and besides a clutch when I bought it I have put nothing major into it besides tires and oil changes! It's always been a great car!

If the battery is replaced and it still doesn't work do the fuel pump. Any car savvy guy can do one in an afternoon. I can and I'm no mechanic! Both of those things should get your car running good enough to put air in the tires and take it to a tire shop which can usually put tires on in two hours or less.

My mechanic referred me to a tire guy who will give me 4 used tires really cheap. I will just have my mechanic get them. I can't afford new right now, last time I put new tires on the Mustang it cost me $600 and I cried in the tire store, no joke. lol Once I get some money saved I'll put new ones on the Mustang. I just need it up and running so I can get to work!! The tires were old on it and they all need replacing from sitting so long.

Even if you go the mechanic route, there's no reason why you should be out much more than a day on the car, unless your mechanic is swamped with work.

I hope this helps.

Oh my mechanic said today they will put the fuel pump in Monday and get things rolling. I was waiting to sell the PT before I worked on the Mustang but now I need it back asap since the PT crapped out on me. So he is doing the Mustang first then we will worry about the PT Loser lol. My mechanic is HUGELY popular and always busy!! ALWAYS! He is a nice guy and been in business for as long as I can remember! I hated when I moved and had to find a new one. I never trusted them!!

Thanks for your advice and help

originally posted by: FyreByrd
a reply to: mblahnikluver

It's a bloody car!!! And ultimately your responsibility. Grow Up.

Who the hell are you? Go away! I don't need people like you and your negativity.

I am grown up! Do you have a child, two cars and a pending divorce and no means to get to work an hour away??

NO so shut your pie hole!

originally posted by: bobs_uruncle

originally posted by: MimiSia
a reply to: bobs_uruncle

awww
could it be
very very lovely

perhaps this was meant to be?
world needs good people and unusual new romance stories

Just call me Al Bundy, Married With Children, but no foot fetish LOL. I get to do a lot of "chores." Seeing the Op's pics up there now, just scary! A timing belt is about 100 bucks, same for a water pump. Last year (fall) I rebuilt a 1998 GMC 5.7 V8 pickup for less than $1200 Including paint and rust removal, a new radiator, new rear leaf spring, new tensioner, new O2 sensors, new exhaust gasket, new battery, new brakes and brake lines, new fuel line, oil change, tranny filter/fluid change, new serpentine belt and ground pulleys and new driving lights, so yeah, the OP was had something serious.

Cheers - Dave

You are talking about a totally DIFFERENT car! I am talking about a 2003 PT Cruiser! It's NOT a GMC truck! If I could do all this myself believe me I would but I can't! I need a mechanic and I have one who is great.

I use to help my ex work on my Escort. He bought the manual and would do everything himself as long as he had the tools. I loved it! I want to learn that stuff but I live in an apartment and have no tools or garage lol. One day I will have a man shed!!! I would love to learn to work on my Mustang! The PT well I'd rather blow it up and toss it off a bridge!

You are lucky you have the skill to do that to a car! I WISH!

a reply to: bobs_uruncle

Um yea that sounds great but I"m a 120lb female living in an apartment! lol

I'll uh bookmark this for future fuel pump issues. lol

Seriously good advice. If I could do it myself I would. I HATE paying someone else to do it because it costs too much money!

a reply to: mblahnikluver

All is well here. Just don't forget to sit back and breathe when things get too stressful. Call on your friends when you need them. You also have plenty of friends here for moral support.

Sometimes the dark clouds the opprtunities.

Had some great highs. Had some very dark lows. And looking back the lows were where some of my best opportunities existed. But I never saw them while in the dark. Only in retrospect afterwards.

Hang in there. Better things and better men in the horizon. Better cars too.

a reply to: mblahnikluver

Marriage isn't meant to be a bed of roses, reconsider the need for divorce, you don't get on so look at the wider world and that is common everywhere so why not readdress the situation, by looking at all the circumstances that has led to the conflict. Its not too late.

originally posted by: MimiSia
a reply to: bobs_uruncle

I am sorry I did register married with children
but I kept reading over and over
just call me Ted Bundy

LOL, ummmm, nope, I was involved in a lot of unhappy endings overseas, but they weren't personal, they were business.

Cheers - Dave