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Re: Second Opinion
Seven grand??? Holy crap...I'm a big anti-"just send it to the junker" kinda guy, but for that kind of money you should have sent it away...or you were either robbed by a untrustworthy mechanic or the whole motor and tranny was replaced...
Anyway, first we need a year of the car...otherwise we can't troubleshoot. Secondly, you need to take the car to an autozone or the likes and have the trouble codes pulled off (free) and post them here assuming your year of car has an ECM or PCM.
Third, you should try to find a shop manual, probably e-bay, but they are hard to come by so you will probably have to settle for a chiltons (better than haynes, can be found a Autozone, O'reily, etc.), assuming it is a recent-ish model and a book has been published for one.
As for the whole "wont run right with aftermarket parts," that sounds like a load of you know what, unless the parts purchased were incredibly low-priced and low-quality (but at 7 grand, I doubt it). And four days to diagnose a car? If it was the only one it shouldn't take much more than a couple hours with the right equipment for a very thourough examination.
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