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What a way to start my college career...

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Dusstbuster

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On my way to school today, first day of my college life, I get off the interstate and am stuck in kinda stop and go traffic that goes over some train station crap, kinda by the airport, lots of cows and pigs and crap around the area. I notice a funky smell and write it off as one of the above listed things. I pull into the campus and am on the opposite side of the campus from where my parking spot is when I realize it smells electical/plasticy and that it's still there and stronger. Just as I figure out it's my car, smoke starts filling the passenger compartment and the hood starts pouring smoke too. I quickly pulled into a lot and popped the hood to see smoke billowing out from my damn radiator fan. Stupid POS took a **** on my on my first day with 10 minutes MAX before class started and me being about 3 blocks from the building I needed to be in. Long story slightly shorter I dumped the rest of my mountain dew on it in hopes that it wouldn't start on fire, unplugged the fan, and ran to class.

Came back and it was still there so my dad came and drove behind me while I lugged the damn car to work and now here I sit finding out that Ford is gay and doesn't sell just a fan motor, but a whole damn assembly that I was quoted at 350ish for. 350 for a fricking POS plastic radiator fan...WTF!!!! SO yeah, thats how my first day of the school year started. And I have another class at 4.
 

Ernad

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Kilgore Trout

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Selling "assemblies" instead of individual component parts is
 

Jinx

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Will a v6 fan assembly fit? $126

radiator fan shroud

 

stangGT97

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Dang man thats too bad. Like they say, when it rains, it pours.
 

Jinx

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College budget??

Here's one on E-bay for $24.99 (starting bid) + $25 shipping
Not sure if this will fit though, item description is kinda confusing.

Click here

View attachment 446548
 

DocG

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Check your local junkyards for a used one. Can easily test it by hooking up a battery or something I'd bet.

Sounds like a pretty crappy way to start...just think...its college....it only gets worse!
 

streetstang03

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i got a speeding ticket on my way to campus one day when i was already running 15 mins late for a test Cop only slowed me down more
 

Dope 97GT

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+1 on going to a junkyard to get one...I had to do that with my saturn a couple weeks back and only paid $25 there.
 

urban96

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check partsamerica.com for just the fan motor
 

urban96

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Part Number: 35166
 

BurningRubber

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That might be under recall man. I know the 94/95 5.0 GT's had a recall for burning fan motors, it may extend into 96. Ill check for you real quick.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...ustang-and-taurus-and-mercury-sable/index.htm

Well, looks like it doesnt but its a heads up just in case.
 

Dusstbuster

I love meat more than anything! I just have a spec
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Thanks for the replies guys. Unfortunatly for me, nobody seems to carry mustang radiator fan motors in stock so no matter where I go, it'll be a wait. I think i'm going to order one from checker auto since I get a 10% discount on it through work...Also I would stop by a junkyard to get one but the only junkyard around here with cars usually NEVER has mustangs, and i'm also not a fan of buying used. At least when I buy new I can expect it to work for quite some time, and if for some reason it fails, I can yell at someone and get it replaced.
 

urban96

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ive learned the same thing about buying used bought a used alternator that lasted less then a year
 
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Hey its still cheaper then your textbooks! It cost me over 550 for books for 3 of the 6 classes im taking this semester...
 

Dusstbuster

I love meat more than anything! I just have a spec
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Yeah but textbooks give me something worth money (an education). A broken fan gives me nothing but a headache and a lighter wallet.
Thinking back on it I kinda laugh now...My two main concerns were a) car wouldn't light on fire being as my laptop/amp/subs would have been burnt + that much of my time/money invested into the thing all would have been for nothing and b) that nobody would see me, especially any girls lol. Pretty sure my corner of the class smelled like a combination of rubber/plastic/electical smoke combined with tommy lol
 

stangGT97

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Dusstbuster said:
Yeah but textbooks give me something worth money (an education). A broken fan gives me nothing but a headache and a lighter wallet.
Thinking back on it I kinda laugh now...My two main concerns were a) car wouldn't light on fire being as my laptop/amp/subs would have been burnt + that much of my time/money invested into the thing all would have been for nothing and b) that nobody would see me, especially any girls lol. Pretty sure my corner of the class smelled like a combination of rubber/plastic/electical smoke combined with tommy lol
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that sounds like a smell that would make people

So is this your freshman year of college? Here's a tip for you - buy your textbooks on Half.com. At my school, we can buy our books online from the school bookstore, so I check the listings for my classes, then go on Half and usually find the books for half price Then I sell them to the lower classmen for more than I paid

I hear you about the car though man... I haven't been able to do any mods yet, just fixing crap that keeps breaking and I've had it for 3 years now
 

Dusstbuster

I love meat more than anything! I just have a spec
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stangGT97 said:
that sounds like a smell that would make people

So is this your freshman year of college? Here's a tip for you - buy your textbooks on Half.com. At my school, we can buy our books online from the school bookstore, so I check the listings for my classes, then go on Half and usually find the books for half price Then I sell them to the lower classmen for more than I paid

I hear you about the car though man... I haven't been able to do any mods yet, just fixing crap that keeps breaking and I've had it for 3 years now
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Yeah it's my freshman year, computer engineering degree. I'll have to check half.com out, ive already bought my books for this semester so next semester i'll compare prices.
 

shallowreef

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Are you sure there wasn't a recall for that fan at all? I heard a very similar story on another site and it was a recall and didn't cos the guy a dime.
 

stangGT97

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Dusstbuster said:
Yeah it's my freshman year, computer engineering degree. I'll have to check half.com out, ive already bought my books for this semester so next semester i'll compare prices.
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Computer engineering, eh? Chemical engineering here. good luck to you... it'll be difficult but will be worth your trouble in the end
 
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