Ok, so I've owned the car for only about 2 months.....I knew the car would need some work because of it's long period of inactivity from the previous owner but it's becoming a headache......
So the car goes back in to re paint the front end and front ground effects yesterday (was unhappy with how they turned out when the whole car was painted about a month or so ago)....
owner of the shop calls me up 30 mins after dropping it off and tells me that the car is making a loud popping/backfiring sound when he went to move it into the booth......STRANGE, as it worked properly when I dropped it off. He appears to have some mechanical knowledge and told me there's a sound that he thinks is coming from the intake manifold....maybe a leak of some sort...... I asked him if he thought i could make the drive home tonight, which is about 7 miles and he said he thought so but would pay close attention to the temp guage...
1. He wouldn't be trying to scam me into doing work....guy is honest (or at least I think so) and his shop doesn't do mechanical work of any kind....and when he called he didn't mention anything about having it repaired anwhere.
so i have to assume this problem just developed right when he turned it on (still strange to me though)
Any suggestion of what to look for here when I go to get her? I know I can't paint a good picture yet because it's all second hand info..... But I'm going to bring the necessary tools to check the plugs to make sure they aren't loose. (my car did shoot a plug out the head about 3 weeks ago leaving me stranded at starbucks.....however threads in the head were still salvageable, I was very lucky, and i torqued them all down to 13lbs... Don't think this is the problem though, I had ticking last time before the plug blew for like a week and didn't know what it was.....I've had no ticking since
So the car goes back in to re paint the front end and front ground effects yesterday (was unhappy with how they turned out when the whole car was painted about a month or so ago)....
owner of the shop calls me up 30 mins after dropping it off and tells me that the car is making a loud popping/backfiring sound when he went to move it into the booth......STRANGE, as it worked properly when I dropped it off. He appears to have some mechanical knowledge and told me there's a sound that he thinks is coming from the intake manifold....maybe a leak of some sort...... I asked him if he thought i could make the drive home tonight, which is about 7 miles and he said he thought so but would pay close attention to the temp guage...
1. He wouldn't be trying to scam me into doing work....guy is honest (or at least I think so) and his shop doesn't do mechanical work of any kind....and when he called he didn't mention anything about having it repaired anwhere.
so i have to assume this problem just developed right when he turned it on (still strange to me though)
Any suggestion of what to look for here when I go to get her? I know I can't paint a good picture yet because it's all second hand info..... But I'm going to bring the necessary tools to check the plugs to make sure they aren't loose. (my car did shoot a plug out the head about 3 weeks ago leaving me stranded at starbucks.....however threads in the head were still salvageable, I was very lucky, and i torqued them all down to 13lbs... Don't think this is the problem though, I had ticking last time before the plug blew for like a week and didn't know what it was.....I've had no ticking since