First off I LOVE my RIVI!
Its a 95 3800 engine not super charged. I have another Rivi 95 supercharged no issues with that one.This is a long explaination of all the issues I have had but hopefully this history will help somebody help me figure out what is wrong wit my babe! The first 2 years of ownership no problems!
Summer of 05 starts with the Tranny blowing out of its casing. Get that fixed, 3 weeks later the main radiator hose colapses and blows my radiator which blows a head gasket, which then locks my engine all this in a 10 block drive. Replace radiator and hose with new, replace engine with a used supposidly 60k on it. The day I get the car back check engine, take it back its a valve that wasnt closing properly. Two days later the belt goes. The next week the o2 censor goes, the next week, the vapor cole canester rupters and spits out coal into my gas line, next week another o2, after 3 o2 censors, they tell me its either the computer or a wiring issue, I go what I thought would be the cheaper of the 2 and buy a new computer, not the issue, it ends up being a corroded wire in the engine harnest. Get about 6 months of use nothing specail car rides ok.
Summer of 06 cat converter goes, replace, fuel pump blows, replace that and fuel filter. Then im driving on the highway and all of a sudden the car starts to spudder if thats a good discription its jumping like the gas flow wasnt right. I get off on the nearest exit and the car wont accelerate past 20mph. I get 2 blocks from the exit and this thick gray/white smoke comes out the tail pipes. 2 more blocks later the entire engine locks again. So having the most horrible expierence just the year before I go new/rebuild (just the block) not used and of coarse deal with someone new as well. So they replace the intake maniford ( iguess it had a crack in it), tensioner, thermostat, and water pump, the only censor that was needed was a new o2. So no more than 5 minutes after I get the car back the o2 censor blows and the cars acceleration sucks. They replace the censor which basically made it where the car wasnt cutting of on me, but the acceleration sucked still! The smart gentlemen that I decided to the work tell me that it has nothing todo with the engine my tranny is going. Now 6 months or 7 whichever before this I had just had the tranny replaced and still under a nice amount of warrenty, so I take it to them the next day they tell me its not the tranny as well as one of there competitors. So the guessing game begins! As I am still trying to figure out what is wrong with no check engine lights, I am told my cat converter is clogged replace it, 1week later 1 of my coil packs blow and take the wires and plugs attached with it, the next week another coil pack and the modular blow as well as the spark plugs and wires, with this repair I went ahead and bought 3 new coil packs to keep them consistant. The next week one of those blow. replace that again and havent had an issue with those again. But due to them blowing like that I had to replace the cat converter again it was melted out. Still no resolution on the acceleration issue though, so this past week the cars climate control was acting really funny it wasnt picking up the exterior temp and it was flashing 60 the whole time never allowing you to set a temp it was still blowing hot or cold which ever you wanted. The really weird thing about it is the car while it was having this issue was finally accelerating how it should. The next day the exterior temo is posted again on my climate control and the car runs like crap!!! I put it on a obd II scanner even though it has no check engine and pushed the gas and a code for the mass air flow censor pulls up!! Yeah finally a code! So I go to Autozone Cheap I know and purchase the censor stick it on drive the car around the block its good, drive up 1 more block and you started to smell something and the car starts doing the same thing so I figure cheap part, go to the dealer and buy the same censor for alot more had a professional put it on drive the car 4 twenty minutes and same burndt smell and the car starts driving poorly again. Put it back on the computer same code for the mass air flow censor. I don't know where to go from here. Im to the point that some mechanics dont even want to touch my car here. I cant sell it Im too deep! so any advise would be greatly appriciated.
05-31-2007, 10:28 PM
