Okay guys, my car wouldn't start this morning when I was trying to go to work. When I turn the key, it would start turning but it seemed to not have enough "juice" to actually start. Not sure if it's a battery or starter issue. Anyways, it smelled really bad also. Kinda like a mixture between gas and oil burning.
For those who have been here awhile, it sounded similar to last year when I thought my timing belt broke and all the rattling started occuring afterwards. I still haven't figured out what the rattling noise is but maybe it's related!?! I did take the car to a shop and when they first initially looked at it, they said it was my water pump going bad and I had to change it. I bought the whole timing belt kit from Rockville but when I brought it back to the shop to have the service done, they pulled off the belt cover and was like "wow, your belt and water pump looks brand new." So then they say it's probably some pulley down there but said I should wait before I changed the belt and everything else since everything looked new.
So yeah, any thoughts from the experts here? I'll see what else I could find out once I get home tonight but I won't have a lot of because I have class tonight. This sucks...school starts and my car screws up on me....my typical luck...
Thanks in advance.
-Oh yeah, I also didn't start my car the whole day Monday and it was super cold this morning too.