My engine started knocking real hard this morning and I took it to the ford dealer in frederick (where I was at the time)

Now I just talked with the shop and it's the engine.

I dont know what exactly it is that died in there and I dont want to pay them to tear into it enough to find out.

Options now ?

3L ?
New different car ?
Used different car ?
"new" contour ?

For those who dont know. My car is officially totaled from an accident a few months ago. It still has a red rear bumper (on the silver body) and a scraped front bumper and a nice dent/scrape in the rear passenger side door from somebody that can't back out of a parking spot it is what you would call cosmetically challenged right now. I am kind of thinking it might not be worth it to fix the engine with the car looking the way it does right now.


Beaten - 2003 MazdaSpeed Protege 29K <- broken hearted Daily/Weekend Beater - 1990 miata 138K - AutoX every weekend = Adult driven on weekends