God....fucking....dammit

So out of all the shit I've been having just got worse.

My damn trucks fucking up. Getting on the freeway today to go home and my truck starts screwing up. Starts rumbling and sputtering and the check engine light comes on. And not only doses it come on but it fucking starts flashing.

Now I'm just sitting here waiting for them to do a test and tell me whether or not I can drive it home and to work until Friday since at the moment I have no money to have them do anything but test it.

I am so fucking scrweed if I can't take my truck anywhere. I need to gk to work and school and both are 20 minutes from where I live. And I doubt my truck can take the twenty minute drive up the Grapevine (long very steep freeway in California)to get me home everyday.

Seriously things were slowly improving now this happens.

Hey man. Sorry to hear your truck is having some problems. One thing I hate and that's when one of my vehicles is having issues. I know nothing about fixing cars and its stressful and expensive it seems to have to deal with them. I feel your pain man. I hope its nothing major!

DRGN LRD 1213 wrote:Hey man. Sorry to hear your truck is having some problems. One thing I hate and that's when one of my vehicles is having issues. I know nothing about fixing cars and its stressful and expensive it seems to have to deal with them. I feel your pain man. I hope its nothing major!

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My sister's car's spark plug like fell off and fused to the engine or something so now the entire engine needs to be replaced. I hope that doesnt happen to you.

Cars are great..... until they break down

Hopefully its nothing major man

uuugghh, vehicle maintenance is the shits. I feel for ya man.

Yeah shit like this is a big reason why I don't feel any immediate need to get a vehicle.

Hope things turn out ok Soap.

vehicles suck....They really confuse me...maybe one day I'll sit down and learn all the parts and stuff like I did with pc's

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DRGN LRD 1213 wrote:Hey man. Sorry to hear your truck is having some problems. One thing I hate and that's when one of my vehicles is having issues. I know nothing about fixing cars and its stressful and expensive it seems to have to deal with them. I feel your pain man. I hope its nothing major!

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Hope it isn't to bad. My advice is to do what I do: Become friends with an actual mechanic with an actual shop.

Im a mechanic by trade ( impossible to find work in the field right now in Salem )

Cars arent that complicated, although I dont do engine work. Everything but, so yea...that shit is expensive....

Older cars are a little easier to understand.. Everything is a little wild now with all the computers in cars and shit.

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Busted catalytic converter. And since I live in cali it's damn near impossible to get a new one for under 400 and that's not counting the fee to get it installed. Which can run from 300 to 700 depending on its complexity

You sure it's a catalyic converter? They're not essential to the car and don't effect performance unless it messed up one of the sensors as well.

My brother ran with a broken converter for like.. 3-5 years, of course he couldn't pass inspection but still kept up the maintence with everything else.

He recently had to get it fixed by court order though (was driving home from work lol). It cost about 1k for him to get it done.

Ouck man

The CC is a bitch to replace

Sorry to hear that

I ve never known a catalytic converter to cause problems.I have one gone on one of my vehicles,something is let go inside and it rattles around.

The internet is a wonderful thing.I do all my work on my vehicles thanks to google.

Just remove it. My dad did that with his car. Pretty sure it's illegal so don't get caught. But hey, no more problems!

I would remove it but my registration is out. So I need a new one just to pas smog

Move to a smaller county where they don't make you smog. [nods]



..... [throws peanuts at Metal]

they don't about smog here at all

JrTapia1991 wrote:they don't about smog here at all

What?

>____> am I tripping out or did my post get deleted?lol

I wrote, they don't c.a.r.e. about smog here at all

Frostbyrn wrote:Also whats Smog?

It's what people from LA breathe.

well I heard in the big cities like Dallas and Houston here you gotta get the emissions from the vehicle checked but don't know how strict they are or anything