GM TIME! - 03/01/05 03:59 AM
well, I never thought the day would come... but my mom's car is in the shop for the FIRST TIME EVER for an unschedualed problem. We have owned her since 1999 (98 model) with only 300 miles (got a kick ass deal on it). Today... roughly 6 years and 108K miles later, shes getting looked at. Now onto the problem...
about 2 week ago we got a HUGE snow storm here in michigan, burried the town, the snow at points we as high as the front bumper (my tour was to low to drive around... on the stock suspension...) I was taking my girlfriend home and as I pull into my driveway... I get stuck, put it into reverse and I get a LOUD grinding noise... like a pulley rubbing on plastic... I shut off the car to see a giant piece of plastic poking out... so I Yank it out of there... I find that its the bumper underbody splash guard I dont know how it got knocked off... but there werent even any bolts left. I put the plastic piece in the garage, I figured I would get some bolts for it later and reinstall it, I get the car unstuck and pull it into the garage, figured everything was fine. yesterday, I come home from Lapeer, and my mom says her car is making a grinding type of noise... its constant and in complete relation to the speed of the car. If anybody is woundering the splash guard I pulled out was jammed under the driver side of the car. I know this is a contour website (DURH!) but does anybody here have any experiance with Grand Prix's? it has the 3.8L engine.
about 2 week ago we got a HUGE snow storm here in michigan, burried the town, the snow at points we as high as the front bumper (my tour was to low to drive around... on the stock suspension...) I was taking my girlfriend home and as I pull into my driveway... I get stuck, put it into reverse and I get a LOUD grinding noise... like a pulley rubbing on plastic... I shut off the car to see a giant piece of plastic poking out... so I Yank it out of there... I find that its the bumper underbody splash guard I dont know how it got knocked off... but there werent even any bolts left. I put the plastic piece in the garage, I figured I would get some bolts for it later and reinstall it, I get the car unstuck and pull it into the garage, figured everything was fine. yesterday, I come home from Lapeer, and my mom says her car is making a grinding type of noise... its constant and in complete relation to the speed of the car. If anybody is woundering the splash guard I pulled out was jammed under the driver side of the car. I know this is a contour website (DURH!) but does anybody here have any experiance with Grand Prix's? it has the 3.8L engine.