Electrical gremlins and the 6 searches
 

Driving home for lunch yesterday, sitting at a stop light, start to move forward.
Check engine light comes on and car goes into "limp mode". Wont rev above 3k rpm's and wont go above 50mph.

Got home, did the ECU clear/reset procedure and drove it to the dealership, drove fine after the clear/reset.

Talk to my service rep today and its lo0kin like my 8's gettin a new motor. :(

In the meantime, they gave me a mazda3 to drive from enterprise. I was unaware they still made cars with manual windows, manual locks, and manual adjustable side mirrors. It has to be the most basic stripped down car ive ever been in. Needless to say, it sucks, I hate it.

Hope the weather clears up so I can drive my mustang around instead.

Anyone whos had a motor replacement, any idea how long it usually takes? Thinkin while they have it out, I might have them put a lightweight flywheel in there or somethin :dunno:

how many miles on your car? at or mt? what kind of oil do you use? do you redline it a lot?

25,400 miles, manual trans, recommended viscosity, cant recall brand offhand, yes-i drive it like i stole it

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Go back to the rental company and change cars.

damn it, I type too slow.

sounds like you just got a bum renesis engine. They're handmade, maybe the guy dropped it a few times before installing it in your car.

id change cars at the rental company, but this one is free (dealership paying for it) and I doubt they have anything nicer in the "free" category that they would put me in.

I think im gonna get the insurance then just beat the hell outta this one.

The wierd thing is, ive never had any problems at all before this, no loss of power, no stutters or misfires ...

The dealership pays up to a certain dollar amount per day for rentals. In CA I think it's around $30 or so.
I've gotten some shitty rentals and I've also gotten some really nice ones.

Just go back, tell them the car was shaking really bad and they'll put you in something nicer. :D:

it'll be shakin after we do some 6.5k neutral drops in front of the shop :D:

HAHA!!!

I got a new Mustang as a rental last time and I tried doing that! (it was an A/T) Stupid Ford made it so you can't do the old "neutral bomb" trick....
I'd shift into neutrual, rev the engine to about 6K, and then slam it into Drive....BAM....nothing..... the damn thing waits until the rpms get low enough, and then it finally engages. :mad:

I rented a Shelby Mustang GT350 from hertz when I was in tampa a couple weekends ago. Supposedly they disabled the TCS in the car so you cant turn it off. Wrong!! All they did was put a piece of plastic behind the button so you cant depress it. Well, if you pushed hard enough it would turn TCS off. haha ... you can imagine what we did after I found that out.

Screw imagination ... I have pics, and VIDEO!!!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62...er/gt350H2.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62...er/gt350H1.jpg



http://youtube.com/watch?v=D9hlE4vkjDU

:hahano: I tried that exact thing in my rental Grand Am a couple years ago and the exact same scenario happened to me. I was disappointed enough to engage the e-brake and gas it in drive several times!

mine was done in less than 24 hours... think i had a corrolla..

and they installed a prolite flywheel and a new clutch...

a good dealership is a great thing..

beers :beer:

sorry to hear, hope u get a good one this time. make sure u break it in right.

well, I got my engine replaced at 2200miles and it took about a week and a half because I kept harrassing them.....and hey....nice stang :)

Wow that sucks. Hope you get your 8 back soon.

Wow...2200 miles and an engine replacement ...on a 2007 no less!! :Eyecrazy: That has to be an anomoly, and also a record of some sort for engine replacements I would guess ("hope" is more like it). Did the dealership have any specific reasons why the engine failed so early?

Curious...

that sucks to have an engine replaced after only 2200 miles, definately wierd for sure

yea, that mustangs ok ... this ones better though :)
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62...ng1-1small.jpg

Wow...nice old stang! Those wheels are really different looking on the car. I actually like the way they add a sort of contemporary look to the classic lines of the original mustang. I have always been a Ford fan and one of my first cars was a 63.5 Falcon sprint hardtop with a built 260 and T-10 4speed tranny. I wouldn't trade your mustang for one of those overblown new ones though, thats for sure...I digress, sorry for getting off topic!

JR

mine's at the dealer getting the replacement engine....they say they should have the engine by the end of this week and need a few days to get it installed so hopefully by the end of next week I'll have mine back.....

to anyone that has gotten the replacement engine.....

was it remanufacutred or brand new?
how is the warranty and/or the extended warranty effected?
does the "new" engine have zero miles on it?
anyone have a best guess what happens when it comes to trade in time?
all I hear is a car is never the same when you replace its engine....am i still going to love my car?

well, my service rep decided to "jump teh gun" and freak me out by telling me its gonna need a new engine.
Turns out the accelerator pedal position sensor was reading a 2.0V difference between APP1 and APP2. ECU threw code P2121

kinda wished they hadn't of freaked me out with the "your getting a new motor" speech....

When they started out with the engine replacements, they had all new engines on hand. As they took out old engines, they fixed them up, and started using used engines as replacements.

Changes are, you'll get a used engine that didn't work in someone elses car...

Dealers like to tell the customer the engine they're getting is new, though.

If I have to replace my engine, I dont mind to have a reman, as long as they can swear their life that the reman engine will not give me the same problem.

Swoope got a reman, and he is wonderfully happy.

yes i am... i have almost 15k miles on the new one.. and i think it is better than the first...

and before you say well the first one was bad, i was able to fix the problem with premix.

beers :beer:

yes they do, and .......no......it didn't go in car fax that my car was f'ing lemonized..........the mthef'ers didn't believe me at first, but they I took them on a ride on the highway, and the car started violently shaking while on 6th gear going about 50mph, turned out the damn second "cylinder" what ever the hell that is in a rotary "misfired" obviously, it almost killed me once, but they replaced it for free, so I was convinced not to yell at them until I get my car back