He put in a new fuel filter, I think he checked the MAF but I'll ask him again. No codes are coming up for a bad O2 sensor, but I'll ask him if he has checked them. Fuel pressure is fine, he checked that.

Your timing belt was chewing through your MAF???

 

modified exhaust ticket

 

no it was another electronic thing i forget which down below near the belts

the MAF was just bad and had to replace it


whats it doing on you?

 

just got your text that sux man on your way to work? or what what did he say? STORY TIME!

 

wtf!

yess this defintely warrants an explanation!

 

I was driving and I heard a loud "clunk" around the engine, and then a "ping" noise like a very large pin had dropped. After which, the car started to make tapping noises and the belt was screeching when starting the car as well as at stop lights and signs.

I took my car to a local mechanic and he told me the bottom alternator through bolt had fallen out and hit my catalytic converter on it's way down to the pavement. So, he told me the tap is because something broke loose in my catalytic converter and the squeal is my alternator belt. While the car was on the lift, he showed me where the missing bolt was suppose to be, and how the alternator was pressed against the engine.

The car seems to be trying to decide whether or not to stall out when I am at stop signs/lights and when I give it too much gas. After driving the car for an extended amount of time, every time I slow down from highway speed, or I stop at a stop sign or a red light, it will want to stall. When I go to accelerate, it will stall out. After restarting, I have to rev the car in neutral and while holding the accelerator down I have to neutral bang it to get it to go.

Edit: I replaced the alternator bolt a few days before taking it into the shop since the bogging and stall was getting worse even with the new bolt in the alternator

 

Meh I was making a right turn right by Pasadena City College and stepped on it a little bit and saw there was a motorcycle cop coming behind me. At first I was like "maybe he didn't hear me" lol yeah right. He pulled me over and asked if I put anything on the car I said "no officer I think I have a leak or something because it sounds very 'blegh' and loud." So he just gave me a fix it ticket.

Only 15 minutes before I was trailed by a police car with his windows down who probably smelled me, I wouldn't be surprised if he put a call out to all the cops in the area...

He was actually pretty nice and didn't hassle me. He probably secretly liked my car heheh

 

Lol cops want our cars. But that's good that you didn't get hassled. I've been pulled over bunch of times but never once metioned about the smell. *knock on wood*

 

haha that suck so are you going to put your stock exhaust on and show its running fine then put it back on?

 

when you get it written off, bring my plate with you and do mines

 

yeah i'll just put the stock cat back on
i will do that!

 

i wonder if CHP will notice...

 

pfft - he was probably secretly sophistocated too...

was the motorcycle cop wearing a scarf??




i know when i get pulled over its probably gonna be another rodney king

 

lol

 

Rodney king?

 

yeah chase lol

 

google is your friend chase

 

rodney peete?

 

Rodney Dangerfield??

 

didnt you just put your mp back on rev?

 

wow someone needs a history lesson!

how do you live in LA and not know rodney king!
its how LAPD got such a bad reputation

 

MP = Global Warming

 

rodney king was on a judge show not to long ago lol

 

volcom=treehugging panocha

 

lol