What should I be looking for?Ī: There are actually three possible belt tensioners. How many styles of tensioners were made for that car? Is it possible the engine is not a 1992? I was told I needed the one that has the tensioner attached to a bracket. Each time I buy one, the mechanic tells me it’s the wrong one. Q: I’m having trouble finding a belt tensioner for my 1992 Pontiac SE Grand Am with a four-cylinder engine. The internal bands and clutches of an automatic transmission in your 11-year-old-car are not designed for manual down-shifting. Can you tell me if I am damaging or incurring excess wear on my transmission by shifting down and letting the engine do the braking rather than using (and saving) the brakes?Ī: In my opinion, it is much cheaper and more efficient to uses the brakes rather than the transmission to slow the car. Q: I drive a nice 2003 Buick Century that only has 50,000 miles on it. When buying any six- to eight-year-old used car, my advice is that no matter where purchased, have a used car inspection performed before buying the vehicle. The advantage of new car dealers is that they may get a low-mileage trade-in from a previous customer and this could be a better car. Am I correct in believing that buying this car from a Honda dealer is a safer bet for a better quality car than buying from a neighborhood used-car dealer?Ī: Many times, the local used-car lot and dealers all buy vehicles from the same place, a used-car auction. Q: I am in the market for a six- to eight-year-old Honda CR-V for my son to take to college in Vermont. If the timing belt fails, the engine will be badly damaged and will cost much more than $915 to perform the necessary preventative maintenance. What’s the real scoop? Should I try to push it or give up and get the work done?Ī: You should certainly get the timing belt and associated components replaced. The dealer says I am due for a new timing belt for $915. > If you do not see your submitted post in "new" within 5 minutes, message the mods with the URL to your submission and we can fish it out of the spam filter for you.Q: I have a 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser with 112,000 miles on it. Trend posts or "karma trains" will be regulated at the discretion of the moderators, as they often lead to rule breaking when they get out of hand. This includes Craigslist, Ebay, Facebook sale groups, etc. For example, "What is the worst customer experience you've had?" is allowed while "What's wrong with my car?" is not.Ībsolutely no sale site posts. Any offending posts will be deleted, this rule will be enforced with extreme prejudice.ĭiscussions and questions that promote discussion are allowed, but questions cannot be of an /r/MechanicAdvice nature. Please cover or remove license plate numbers, VINs, phone numbers, and names.ĭo not post a "spotted picture" /r/Spotted, /r/JRITSlounge, or /r/SeenOnTheStreet are the proper places for those posts. Please mark pictures with blood/gore/sexually natured as NSFW. Linking from FB causes security issues for the persons profile. If you have a photo from FB you want to post, upload it into Imgur then post from there. If it's not obvious, please include a detailed description of what the problem is or what the thing in the picture does/is supposed to do.ĭo not link photos from Facebook. You can instead post these to our sister subreddit: /r/MechanicAdvice. This is not a place to ask for help troubleshooting your vehicles issues. Posts need not be automotive related, but must follow rule 1. Animals do not fall under the guidelines of Rule #1. Examples of this include computers, HVAC, aircraft, helicopters, etc. Automotive and Non-automotive mechanical failure/oddities ONLY. Submissions must be something you saw that was odd and out of the ordinary for your work setting. For those absolutely stupid things that you see people bring, roll, or toss into your place of business and the people that bring them in.
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