Car care

[vettecat]

For a while now, our "check engine" light has been going on at irregular intervals. When it started it was diagnosed as a faulty oxygen sensor, and not worth worrying about unless it became constant. But as of a couple days ago it had been on for almost a week, and I noticed that the resting temperature was much higher than usual... yet the heat wasn't working. So I brought it in this morning to be examined. Diagnosis was that it needed a water pump, which they replaced. Quite reasonable; I don't think I'd ever replaced it, these things do go after a while. But we didn't really need the added expense right now. (Nothing on a car is cheap.) On the other hand, not fixing it would have been a lot worse. And I have my car back, and it's healthy. So on the whole it's probably not a bad thing... I just hope it doesn't need any more major repairs for a while.

Comments

[pandorahunter.livejournal.com]

hope she stays well:)
my"new" car died a hole in the block would cost over 2k so we are on 1 car for now!!
Good Luck

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Actually my car is a "he"... but thanks! And, sorry about the new car. :-(

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

I was a sucker and paid for the new oxygen sensor.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Oh, you had the same problem? I was actually going to tell them to replace the oxygen sensor if that was the problem, b/c it was too annoying to not know when something was really wrong... but it turned out to be something else.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Mine was the actual oxygen sensor. It was expensive to replace. I did it for the same reason.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I guess that must be a common problem.

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Or a coincidence.