!%!@^!^ help me dead car

Dx18704 · #1 02-07-2003, 11:11 AM

God damn it....its snowing out soo i am like she lets drive in the snow i like it and then i go to the bank and to work to get check.....then i go pick up some speakers for the front and then bk and i am sitting in the drive through and all of a sudden my car starts shake and it stalls and the oil light came on..... and it sounded like it was choking....and then i couldnt start it bak up and i had to push it to a parking lot thank god my bro was with me does anyone have any idea what the hell happened

BLU CIVIC · #2 02-07-2003, 11:16 AM

COULD BE A BLOWN GASKET KIT HEAD OR A FROZEN OIL MAIN LINE PIPE OR YOUR CAR COULD JUST HAVE THE FLU....EITHER WAY I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M THALKING ABOUT :hehehe:

mellowboy · #3 02-07-2003, 11:16 AM

Check your oil. If theres no oil u better hope ur engine isn't fucked up.

Dx18704 · #4 02-07-2003, 11:19 AM

but i just checked my oil like a couple of days of go and it wwas fineee .......it is cold out but i let my car run before i went out but yesterday i noticed it was slow like not as fast as usual would a blown gasket do that?

mellowboy · #5 02-07-2003, 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by Dx18704
but i just checked my oil like a couple of days of go and it wwas fineee .......it is cold out but i let my car run before i went out but yesterday i noticed it was slow like not as fast as usual would a blown gasket do that?

Check on the bottom of your head. See if anything is leaking.

mellowboy · #6 02-07-2003, 11:22 AM

and check your oil again to make sure.

Dx18704 · #7 02-07-2003, 11:23 AM

what would it look like......and what would it cost to fix one and how do u blow one

mellowboy · #8 02-07-2003, 11:25 AM

If its a blown gasket you'll see what smoke from the exhaust and u'll be able to smell coolant.

mellowboy · #9 02-07-2003, 11:31 AM

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Originally posted by Dx18704
one and how do u blow one

could be low coolant

BLU CIVIC · #10 02-07-2003, 11:31 AM

NOT TO BE FUNNY OR ANYTHING BUT IS THERE GAS IN THE CAR...A COMMON THING THOUGH

plkelley · #11 02-07-2003, 11:33 AM

Sounds like you have no oil to me.

amy@af · #12 02-07-2003, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by Dx18704
what would it look like......and what would it cost to fix one and how do u blow one

okay, yikes! that could be a whole can of worms you might not want to mess with. depends on how mechanically inclinded you are. you have tou pull off the head. the head should be taken down to a machine shop to see if it was warped. if it was and very little they can machine it. then you could possibly get a thicker head gasket and put it all back together. before you do that you need to check the block. if the head was warped it is safe to assume the block needs to be checked. take a staright edge across the block in different areas to see if it's straight. if you don't like to get your hands dirty you might want to consider a replacement engine or swap.

not to alarm you but the "and all of a sudden my car starts shake and it stalls and the oil light came on..... and it sounded like it was choking...." sounds real fimiliar. the head gasket blew in the a6. let a shop fix it and they over torqued the head in 2 spots and munched the gasket

it blew again in a month. another symptom is the car over heating. check if the radiator is full. check your oil again (as mellowboy suggested). try and note the color of the oil when you pull it out. check your spark plugs. make sure they look good and no oil or any other deposits on them. have you checked the ecu for any error codes?

Dx18704 · #13 02-07-2003, 12:15 PM

ok i went bak down to it too look at it and it seems like its not getting any gas and yes it has gas it has been throwing off a fuel injector error 16.......and i am thinkin thats what it might be eh?? cause it would start now and rumble and then i would go to givce it gas and it would just die

amy@af · #14 02-07-2003, 12:42 PM

the fact that you didn't say it over-heated was kinda puzzling me. both time my head gasket went, the car over heated...all rad. fluid ended up in the block. the reason i said to check what color the oil is, when oil and coolant mix it kinda looks like chocolate milk. i'm glad you checked your ecu.

now you have to figure out why no flow. have you ever had the injectors cleaned? how many miles on the engine?

when you said it rumbled and then died i actually first thought you ran out of gas. but i thought it might be insulting to ask if that were the case. not out of gas....more like no gas flow. first thoughts were close

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we bought the LX and that weekend dropped the a6 in it. i went to start it 3 days later it had been running and that happened. i'm thinking head gasket a 3rd time? wtf. it didn't have any of the other symptoms. on a guess i threw some gas in. turns out the gas gauge didn't work! it was empty :licker:

Dx18704 · #15 02-07-2003, 12:48 PM

just got gas yesterday though....but ya my mechanic carl said it could be a fuel pump or fuel injector and i know its not the fuel filter because it was replace 3months ago.....my car has 90000 miles on it and i dont think they have ever been cleaned except with fuel injector cleaner if thats what you are talking about......they said to replace the fuel pump it will be like $200 but first i need to get it down thier casue they dont have a tow truck god i hate problems and i want my baby to runnnnnnn

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