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Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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ldof87
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Aug 28, 2006, 4:29 PM
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Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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2000 Hyundai Sonata, 68000 miles.
My car has been acting up for quite some time now. Here's what it does:
***It shakes quite a bit when its in drive. Only time it doesn't shake is when its in neutral.
***The check engine light has been on for probably a year or so now. My mechanic got it to go off for a day or two but then it came back.
***Sometimes as I'm taking off, my car looses power and it almost feels like there's no gas going through it. The RPM's sorta get stuck in place and my car is basically moving very very very slowly. It feels like its stuck in gear or something.
***To get it moving right, I either have to let go of the gas a lil and then step on it again. Or I have to "really" step on the gas which causes my car to "instantly" take off. I say instantly 'cause it literally accelerates like crazy if I do this (it causes your head to jerk back a lil). When ever I use this approach, the RPM's usually almost red line and then it shifts gears and drives fairly normal after that.
***The problem happens very often lately but it used to mostly happen whenever I was going up hill.
***I've also noticed that now that its acting up more, it seems to burn up gas alot faster. I'm at the gas station quite a bit considering I'm driving a 4 cylinder car.
***My mechanic changed the sparkplugs on it and thinks it has something to with them still. But he says he can't be sure of whats wrong with it. He has tried plugging it in to the "computer" (sorry, I'm not sure of what this machine is called exactly) to try and see if it'll tell him what's wrong but apparently it wont tell him anything is wrong.
So my mechanic pretty much told me to try taking it to someone else.
***Any ideas as to what's making my car act this way???***
I'd greatly appreciate any ideas, tips or any help you can provide me.
Maybe a certain shop that specializes in Hyundai cars or a shop that is fair priced and near my home. (I live in Southern California in the city of Ontario)
Thanks In Advance
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Tom Greenleaf
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Aug 28, 2006, 5:10 PM
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Re: Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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Get the code from the car. Some places do that for free, T
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MartianBunny
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Aug 30, 2006, 2:01 AM
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Re: Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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Hey girl what's ya doing down there?
Since it seems to run with power with the pedal to the floor I would look for the egr valve. Take a small hammer (remember I said a small hammer) and rap the manifold where the egr valve is mounted. See if this improves your idling when in gear & not moving.
The egr valves stick open from just a little bit making them hard to start cold to moderate making cars shake, to wide open letting the engine start with foot to floor but not idle.
If valve is plugged big time the hammer won't reseat it. But this is usually a great test for rough idling & hunt & seeking & shaking.
(This post was edited by MartianBunny on Aug 30, 2006, 2:05 AM)
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ucarifix2dy
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Jan 1, 2007, 2:34 PM
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Re: Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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a good mechanic never gives up sorry had to say that i would have him to do a compression test on all cyliders possible timing problem possible computer fault and fuel pump but do need that code even if it is a faulse code may the power of the hemi be with ya sincerily Tj
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 3, 2007, 3:30 PM
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Re: Help, I'm a 19yr old girl and my mechanic gave up on my car
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A shop shouldn't give up as said. What does happen is there can be problems they don't deal with but should tell you who does! ........... Or send it out themselves to others in the trade, T
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