Dracas
12-04-2002, 09:46 PM
This one P*sses me off big time, our 95 Galant S has been going pretty d*mn strong for a while now, but just as I'm on my way to a new job, it dies. No, lets say implodes. Yes, that'll work.
My F***ing Galant imploded.
I'm still not sure how this happened, and no ones given me an adequate reason. I was pulling out of the parking lot, going under 10 mph, and accelerating gently. All of a sudden I hear "Grinddddd tattatttatttatttatt Grrrkkkktttkktttktttkk vshooooom clattaclattaclatta...." promptly before the engine dies, leaving me stranded in the parking lot of the Arbys, less then a piss length from my doorstep.
So i tried to start it again...starter is spinning free.
So, now in all its unlikelihood, we have a post mortum that any Galant fan here would not like to hear. It got towed, trusty AAA was there and I went to work (by carpooling with my girlfriends mom no less).
The transmission ate it. New ring gear, new planet carrier, the works. No idea how this one happened, and unlike a friend pointed out, it wasn't as simple as "a leak caused the problem", no, the entire transmission imploded on itself, literally.
So thus was problem one. We now have the closest thing to a new auto tranny in the car. Of course, we took it to AAMCO, and they don't know crap about cars, only trannies, so they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start. From there we hauled it, only to get more bad news. It won't start because the Timing belt snapped, and ate the cover. Of course, a snapped timing belt never is good news, and upon opening the engine, we find nicked pistons and bent valves.
Here, ignore this part. But #*($&#ing #(*&$ sakes!
What blows about this is the fact that the person we got this car from NEVER, and I mean NEVER replaced the timing belt, and it had 104,000 miles on it! We were freakin told it got changed, what a load of crap...we also weren't warned about the transmission problems involved, or the fact that the seals were bad to begin with.
What the &$*#
So like, $4000 later, we'll have our car back by Friday. (Mostly) New Automatic Transmission, new Valves, seals, head gasket. Depending on the extent of metal getting smashed when the timing belt went, we may be getting new pistons and rods in the process. No idea, haven't had time to look at them myself. Oh yeah, and we're having the mechanics look at the squishy front-right quarter of the car.
But man...our baby was sabotaged before we ever got her. People suck, and people who don't take care of their cars need to be drug out into the street and shot. I've babied that car since we got it, but this happened out of the blue, literally. We've had it back and forth to the Mitsubishi dealership and they said everything looked good.
So how the %$(^* did this all come about?
Blah, sorry to rant, but I needed someplace to bitch.
My F***ing Galant imploded.
I'm still not sure how this happened, and no ones given me an adequate reason. I was pulling out of the parking lot, going under 10 mph, and accelerating gently. All of a sudden I hear "Grinddddd tattatttatttatttatt Grrrkkkktttkktttktttkk vshooooom clattaclattaclatta...." promptly before the engine dies, leaving me stranded in the parking lot of the Arbys, less then a piss length from my doorstep.
So i tried to start it again...starter is spinning free.
So, now in all its unlikelihood, we have a post mortum that any Galant fan here would not like to hear. It got towed, trusty AAA was there and I went to work (by carpooling with my girlfriends mom no less).
The transmission ate it. New ring gear, new planet carrier, the works. No idea how this one happened, and unlike a friend pointed out, it wasn't as simple as "a leak caused the problem", no, the entire transmission imploded on itself, literally.
So thus was problem one. We now have the closest thing to a new auto tranny in the car. Of course, we took it to AAMCO, and they don't know crap about cars, only trannies, so they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start. From there we hauled it, only to get more bad news. It won't start because the Timing belt snapped, and ate the cover. Of course, a snapped timing belt never is good news, and upon opening the engine, we find nicked pistons and bent valves.
Here, ignore this part. But #*($&#ing #(*&$ sakes!
What blows about this is the fact that the person we got this car from NEVER, and I mean NEVER replaced the timing belt, and it had 104,000 miles on it! We were freakin told it got changed, what a load of crap...we also weren't warned about the transmission problems involved, or the fact that the seals were bad to begin with.
What the &$*#
So like, $4000 later, we'll have our car back by Friday. (Mostly) New Automatic Transmission, new Valves, seals, head gasket. Depending on the extent of metal getting smashed when the timing belt went, we may be getting new pistons and rods in the process. No idea, haven't had time to look at them myself. Oh yeah, and we're having the mechanics look at the squishy front-right quarter of the car.
But man...our baby was sabotaged before we ever got her. People suck, and people who don't take care of their cars need to be drug out into the street and shot. I've babied that car since we got it, but this happened out of the blue, literally. We've had it back and forth to the Mitsubishi dealership and they said everything looked good.
So how the %$(^* did this all come about?
Blah, sorry to rant, but I needed someplace to bitch.