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| The Mostest Frustrating cars you have repaired | |
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| Murf 59 | Mar 8 2016, 11:21 AM Post #16 |
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I was gonna say anything early English, or Fiat. Also on the list is SAAB. And Corvettes. |
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| cwatkin | Mar 8 2016, 11:24 AM Post #17 |
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I have found that just about anything MOPAR is a little more effort. This includes thermostats, belts, etc. I don't own them so my experience has been pretty limited and I plan to keep it that way. I know that Mitsubishi has historically been a real bear but looking under the hood of the Mirage is kinda like looking at a Metro. Some things like the water pump will likely be more work but it has a 100,000 mile warranty on that. Only time will tell. The simple stuff like oil changes, belts, etc. look really easy. Conor |
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| patrickbruce | Mar 8 2016, 01:34 PM Post #18 |
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average teenage gearhead
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Spark plugs on a 4.3 S10. Did a timing belt job on a 2001 pt cruiser, promised myself I'll never do that again |
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| sser2 | Mar 8 2016, 04:54 PM Post #19 |
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'92 Hyundai Elantra. At 30K, one of the cam seals developed leak, which destroyed timing belt, which destroyed the whole engine. Engine was replaced under warranty. To replace starter, it was necessary to push arms through a narrow clearance between engine and firewall, and to work blind, scratching and bruising wrists. Belts were pain to replace and tighten. Twin cam timing belt replacement was nothing short of nightmare. No shop could do it right on the first try; the belt skipped and everything was to be done over again. Strict adherence to the factory service manual and a specialized tool were necessary. A generic description of the procedure in my Chilton manual was wrong. I was so scared of timing belt and mistrustful of repair shops that I procrastinated with replacement of leaking water pump. I just carried a jar of coolant and topped it off from time to time. As a result, after several episodes of overheating, the head warped, the gasket blew, and the car was done with. I remember how wrenching a'78 Toyota Corolla and '82 Nissan Sentra was much more enjoyable. |
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| Johnny Mullet | Mar 8 2016, 08:47 PM Post #20 |
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Fear the Mullet
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ANYTHING on Ford 6.0L or 6.7L diesel engines. And they break down a lot! |
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| makenzie71 | Mar 8 2016, 08:56 PM Post #21 |
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Does it have to be a car? Try doing a valve adjustment and throttle body sync on a VFR750. |
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| ijosef | Mar 8 2016, 10:10 PM Post #22 |
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What were some of the easiest cars you guys have worked on? I remember my Dad's 1950 Chevy Deluxe that he inherited from his uncle. You could change the spark plugs with a crescent wrench. I suspect a lot of the real old cars were like that though. |
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| MarkZ28 | Mar 8 2016, 10:26 PM Post #23 |
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Easiest? Old Chevies with the V8 of course. Old Mopars also escept for the stupid torsion bar suspension. Early 70's Corollas, Datsuns, most rwd Japanese car and trucks are easy. Even the old(pre mid 70's) German cars were not that bad. That was before the US buyers demanded to have every freakin luxury doodad they could think of installed. You can still buy bare bones low content BMWs and Mercedes in Europe. |
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| makenzie71 | Mar 8 2016, 10:41 PM Post #24 |
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My '79 Supra was the easiest car I've worked on. Everything was accessible from the top except the oil pan plug. |
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| cwatkin | Mar 8 2016, 11:20 PM Post #25 |
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The G10 Geo Metro is by far the easiest car I have ever worked on. Conor |
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| JimmyStewart | Mar 9 2016, 12:04 AM Post #26 |
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86 Nissan Maxima radiator in the middle of winter, outside and with a very poor selection of tools. |
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| cwatkin | Mar 9 2016, 01:07 AM Post #27 |
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I once replaced a thermostat on some Chrysler 300 or similar (I try to forget). It was swapped some 9 hours later. I had to unbolt the engine mount and jack up the engine to get enough clearance to where I could get a tool on the thermostat housing bolts. I also seem to recall some Y-shaped heater or bypass hose coming out of this too. It really didn't look like a bad design or that hard to service if the ENGINE WAS OUT OF THE CAR. It was quite apparent that this was part of the engine assembly when it was dropped into the car and that future servicing of the component wasn't a consideration during the design process. This is one of many reasons I will never own a Chrysler. Conor |
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| dayle1960 | Mar 9 2016, 06:54 PM Post #28 |
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Fastest Hampster EVER
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Worst for me was a '86 Buick Century. Took it to a car wash to hose down the engine bay and tried to start it. Figured out that water had gotten into the dizzy. Only then did I realize that the dizzy was betwixt the engine and firewall and not in an easily accessible place to reach. GM sucked big donkey weenies on that engineering fiasco. Easiest car to work on???? 1998 Plymouth Voyager transmission replacement wasn't too bad. Can't remember any specifics, only the cast of blue coming through the blue tarp surrounding my carport in the dead of winter to keep the wind from freezing my fingers to the transmission. The 4.2L Ford 150 V6 has a particularly evil vacuum line underneath the intake manifold which has a rubber elbow which connects two hard lines. At the bend of this elbow a hole forms due to hot gasses eating away the rubber. It is a PITA to replace the elbow because it is a tight area that the elbow lies in and if you have hands of a brick mason you will have to unscrew the intake manifold to get to the elbow. I scrapped my knuckles so I wouldn't have to go through that ridiculous adventure. |
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| mt999999 | Mar 9 2016, 07:08 PM Post #29 |
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Unfortunately, the Mirage isn't quite as easy as the Metro. Thus forth, only changing the oil, hasn't been fun. I'm sure it's easy compared to some cars, but the oil filter is really out of the way, making it not fun to remove. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the ease of the Metro. |
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| sser2 | Mar 9 2016, 09:27 PM Post #30 |
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Metro has a few bugs too. To replace water pump, need to remove and re-install timing belt. Use of Philips screws with Loctite, particularly on fuel injector cover. I replaced mine with hex bolts. Coolant pipe attachment to manual transmission in later models. When removing tranny, have to remove the pipe or risk breaking off attachment straps. |
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