*Note, if this belongs in talk, I apolagize and could a mod please move this thread. Thank you.
Well all, I just thought I'd drop in to share my bad day with my Mustang. Just to give some backround info, I'm a student at the College of Charleston in Charleston South Carolina. My family lives in Fort Myers Florida, so obviously I have a bit of a drive from SC to FL (about 600ish miles, give or take). I've been driving my 98 Mustang GT back and forth now for a couple of years. I bought the car used in 2001 with 24,000 miles. She now has 58,000 miles, almost all freeway miles. It's been a great car, and I've never had any repair problems save the time I went to the dealer about 3 months ago to get the oil changed, and all my 50,000 mile check up stuff. Overall my bill came to about 1800 bucks for new tires, breaks, fluids, fuel filter, etc.
Today I took my car in for an oil change and to have the car inspected for the 60,000 mile check up (I took the Stang in at about 55k miles the previous time, the time where all the work was done). I told them that I was having a problem with the check engine light coming on every now and then and that there was a kind of light whistle coming from the rear of the car whenever I was going about 1700 rpm regardless of speed. They said they'd check it out and give me a call back. Well I got the call today at about noon and the service guy on the phone told me that my rear end needed to be totally rebuilt. He said the fluid had all leaked out of the housing and it was metal rubbing against metal and that the rear end was basically destroyed. This was news to me because it had been making the sound for about 10,000 miles but I never thought anything of it because I just figuered it was the fuel pump, I never had any problems with driving the car. He also said that the check engine light was coming on because of bad o2 sensors. Overall he said that it was going to cost me another 2 grand to do all of this work. Overall, I am not very happy because I had the car in not even 4 months ago and told the service men that I drive long distances and I needed all fluids checked and the car needed to be in perfect condition. I think I'm going to raise some hell when I go to pick up the car, but I don't have much leverage because the service man that I used to go to no longer works at the dealer, so I can't go to him to complain. We'll see, but I understand that there really isin't much I can say, I work on computers and I know how it is to fix a problem and then something else pops up and the customer blames the service people regardless. I guess I'm just a little mystafied how something like this could be missed, and I think part of the problem that I'm unhappy is that I'm going to be spending another 2 grand on top of the near 2 grand I spent a few months ago. Not really any questions being posted here, just thought I'd vent and see what others have to say. I guess the lesson here is if you start thinking something is wrong with your car, it needs to get looked at.
Well all, I just thought I'd drop in to share my bad day with my Mustang. Just to give some backround info, I'm a student at the College of Charleston in Charleston South Carolina. My family lives in Fort Myers Florida, so obviously I have a bit of a drive from SC to FL (about 600ish miles, give or take). I've been driving my 98 Mustang GT back and forth now for a couple of years. I bought the car used in 2001 with 24,000 miles. She now has 58,000 miles, almost all freeway miles. It's been a great car, and I've never had any repair problems save the time I went to the dealer about 3 months ago to get the oil changed, and all my 50,000 mile check up stuff. Overall my bill came to about 1800 bucks for new tires, breaks, fluids, fuel filter, etc.
Today I took my car in for an oil change and to have the car inspected for the 60,000 mile check up (I took the Stang in at about 55k miles the previous time, the time where all the work was done). I told them that I was having a problem with the check engine light coming on every now and then and that there was a kind of light whistle coming from the rear of the car whenever I was going about 1700 rpm regardless of speed. They said they'd check it out and give me a call back. Well I got the call today at about noon and the service guy on the phone told me that my rear end needed to be totally rebuilt. He said the fluid had all leaked out of the housing and it was metal rubbing against metal and that the rear end was basically destroyed. This was news to me because it had been making the sound for about 10,000 miles but I never thought anything of it because I just figuered it was the fuel pump, I never had any problems with driving the car. He also said that the check engine light was coming on because of bad o2 sensors. Overall he said that it was going to cost me another 2 grand to do all of this work. Overall, I am not very happy because I had the car in not even 4 months ago and told the service men that I drive long distances and I needed all fluids checked and the car needed to be in perfect condition. I think I'm going to raise some hell when I go to pick up the car, but I don't have much leverage because the service man that I used to go to no longer works at the dealer, so I can't go to him to complain. We'll see, but I understand that there really isin't much I can say, I work on computers and I know how it is to fix a problem and then something else pops up and the customer blames the service people regardless. I guess I'm just a little mystafied how something like this could be missed, and I think part of the problem that I'm unhappy is that I'm going to be spending another 2 grand on top of the near 2 grand I spent a few months ago. Not really any questions being posted here, just thought I'd vent and see what others have to say. I guess the lesson here is if you start thinking something is wrong with your car, it needs to get looked at.
