Second Opinion

[ladybugg79]

When I recieved my regency I had to replace almost seven thousand dollars worth of parts which included rebuilt transmission. My last problem was the coil pack and some other stuff needed to be replaced to stop the car from cutting off while I was driving it. Almost a year later the problem has come back and I took it into an intructor at a Technical college that took it to a shop of his and they diagnosed it for about four days and then they told me that all the parts that I had struggled to put into it were aftermarket parts and that my regence ninty eight does not run properly with aftermarket parts so I will have to replace all of those parts with the original GM parts for it to run correctly. I do not know where to begin or what to do because I can't afford to replace everything again. Does anyone have suggestions or maybe a place to buy new brandname parts cheaper or something and maybe even a manual that is just for my car so that I can do some of the work myself because the one I have is universal for olds, buick and some other car of the same year and it real hard to understand it.

[Alibi]

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.