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Originally Posted by REN69
Hey, you could've complained to the service manager until you got your money back or a discount for them screwing up on the first time, you bought a battery when that wasn't the problem... get the old one back on the car and ask for your money back.
People do that all the time, the shops usually try to do a better job in those cases.  |
Well, here's the thing. It was the service manager, a middle aged lady who gave me a ride home and talked about how she and her hubby go to
Vegas twice a year. Hmmm. And it was she who, the next day when I called, said, right off, I absolutely needed a new battery. Later that day, her subordinate called telling me I needed a new alternator. I DID NOT go for it, as I explained, I went to the Alternator Shop.
But here's the thing and I explained to the dealer in detail the issue with my beloved Corrolla. Five years ago I needed a new wagon to replace my 1980 Corolla wagon that had some 320,000 Kms on it. That little beauty never, ever gave me a lick of trouble,,, not once. No computers, just points ignition, rear wheel drive, and an engine compartment that was easy to work on. The body rotted off, salt, winters etc. That marvelous little machine, I took care of but I was not a fanatic about it. Just the usual, once a year, oil, points, plugs etc. The only reall problem in all that time was that at some point, the battery kept dying on me. Several shops checked it out, the battery was good, just discharged. So after a weekend of going over it, I found that there was a plug, a BIG one going from the battery to the rest of the car. Externally it looked fine. Internally, it was corroded with a green cement. How it didn't slowly die I don't know but abruplty, I had battery problems. Once fixed, I ran it for another 3 years. One day I was at a stop light and some kids were laughing at my homemade car with lots of patches and spray bomb touchups. Mechanically, rock solid, body,,, toast.
So anyway, this 1990 vesion was OK till a good front ender required a 1000.00 dollar body job and frame straigtening. Since then, I get these intermittent, no starts. turn the key, nothing except some relay under the dash going off. Note that the starter solenoid is not what I hear, it's just some relay under the hood, clicking as I turn the key. If I leave the car alone for an hour, come back to it, it fires off no problem. I'll be good for a month or two and the little gremlin shows. Rain or shine, winter or summer, hot or cold, this intermittent shpws up with no seeming rhyme or reason.
Twice before, I got a new battery, once put in myself, once by a shop as I was out of town. I've had the starter brushes and contacts replaced. I had the alternator brushes and diodes replaced at the beginning. Now the diodes are gone again. Something seems to be eating diodes. So maybe I DO need a new alternator, maybe the windings are toast and frying the diodes.
But that relay I hear, It's there, somewhere but I can't find it. I have the Toyota manual for this car and it's not there. This is a wagon and that year, the wagons were imports from Japan, not Canadian built, so maybe I've got a Canadian manual that doesn't relate.
But you would think that if the diodes were bad and the battery wasn't being charged, that the idiot light on the dash would go on?
When my other wagon needed to be replaced, Toyota was no longer making a proper wagon. I agonized, looking for a newish wagon of any sort and there were a lot of Ford Escort wagons around. God, what a piece of shit. Handling was dangerous IMO. From first gear the auto tranny would bog the engine shifting into second, third was a weird delay. The used car guy asked, well, what do you think? I said, well, it's no Corrolla, and he didn't argue.
I can't for the life of me understand why or how anyone, test driving an Escort and then a Corrolla would, in his right mind, buy the former. The Escort I drove was not unusual in it's poor performance, I found out later.
Now where's that rant symbol,,, ah, there it is.
Sorry guys. I love engines, but I also just want reliable transportaion. There was a documentary a week ago, on TV, called, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Built by GM with a unique battery that would outlast the car. A number of these were given out to test drive and all who did, loved it. GM took the cars back and destroyed them. They then sold the patent for the battery to big oil and we never heard of it again. And today, GM is on the ropes and begging for a bailout.
So we invade a few, backwater countries to secure oil supplies when it all didn't have to be. A million Iraqi ,men, women, children and babies killed in a war that was declared Mission Accomplished some 5 years ago. Say, just what WAS that mission? And then we cater to the Saudies, Kuwait, Bahrain, none of them democracies. And now, a certain, middle east country wants us to invade Iran for the same made up bullshit that got us into Iraq.
Go to
www.globalresearch.ca and see what the
www.buzzflash.com is all about. Look up Zeitgeist the Movie and Money as Debt and The Creature From Jekyll Island. The last IS a horror story but not what you might think.
I say throw all the bastards out,, on both sides of the border. Bernie Madoff is just the tip of the iceberg.
Bastards. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it’s fuel related so when I came into town I grabbed a proper pump and sender, installed it and voila, problem solved. Wrong sender and there time added up to over $1000 for nothing.
No wonder GM is in the hole.
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