A sad story, with a happy ending...such suffering!
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A sad story, with a happy ending...such suffering!
2.5 years ago, I drove my 88 TII pretty hard for about 3hrs straight. All I can say is that Califronia has some GREAT roads! Just watch for potholes!! Anyway, I got home and parked her out front. By some sequence of events, I did not drive her for about two days. Third day rolls around. I go to turn on my car, and(hold your breath) it won't start! So, I keep trying. Finally it turns over a couple of times but it sounds like ****! Not only does it sound like kaka, but it is smoking profusely out the tail pipes!! Blackish-grey smoke, no doubt. So I stop trying. Head hung low, I walk back to the house. I call my (then) RX7 "specialist", explain what just happend. "Bring it in" he says. So I take the defeated rx7 in.
A day or so later I get a call. He tells me that I have destroyed my engine! Oh the humanity! I beg with him. I plead with him, there is nothing he could do. At the time I could not afford an engine so this was pretty devastating to say the least. *as a side note, I had, about two months prior, torn some ligaments in my middle back. I was on work comp, so I was only getting about two thirds my pay wich was nominal to begin with!*
Flash forward to 1 month ago. I took my broken RX7 to a friend and, conviently, mechanic(he has had alot of rx7 expierence!). I went there to have him put in my new engine! Fortunatly, I desided to wait on the purchasing of said engine as he was able to start my car in the first 20 minutes I was there!!! It smoked like hell but it was running? When all was said and done it was just a F--ked up cat! My engine is in great shape!
So I'm thrilled that my engine is fine, who wouldnt be, but two and a half years without my car over something that I could have fixed a long time ago? I'm a little pissed! Upon retrospect, my ex-mechanic was trying to screw me out of a lot of money! Or he was just lazy, but if thats the case why would he want to be bothered with an engine replacement?
The moral of this story is: GET A SECOND OPINION!!! Dont just trust the "experts" blindly. Their "expertise" says nothing of their ethics!
The upside to all of this, of course, is that I get my car back tomorrow! and all the money that I put aside for the engine went into fun stuff instead! Like the phoenix, she is borne again.
Thanks for reading!
A day or so later I get a call. He tells me that I have destroyed my engine! Oh the humanity! I beg with him. I plead with him, there is nothing he could do. At the time I could not afford an engine so this was pretty devastating to say the least. *as a side note, I had, about two months prior, torn some ligaments in my middle back. I was on work comp, so I was only getting about two thirds my pay wich was nominal to begin with!*
Flash forward to 1 month ago. I took my broken RX7 to a friend and, conviently, mechanic(he has had alot of rx7 expierence!). I went there to have him put in my new engine! Fortunatly, I desided to wait on the purchasing of said engine as he was able to start my car in the first 20 minutes I was there!!! It smoked like hell but it was running? When all was said and done it was just a F--ked up cat! My engine is in great shape!
So I'm thrilled that my engine is fine, who wouldnt be, but two and a half years without my car over something that I could have fixed a long time ago? I'm a little pissed! Upon retrospect, my ex-mechanic was trying to screw me out of a lot of money! Or he was just lazy, but if thats the case why would he want to be bothered with an engine replacement?
The moral of this story is: GET A SECOND OPINION!!! Dont just trust the "experts" blindly. Their "expertise" says nothing of their ethics!
The upside to all of this, of course, is that I get my car back tomorrow! and all the money that I put aside for the engine went into fun stuff instead! Like the phoenix, she is borne again.
Thanks for reading!
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