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Only thing I'm givin her is the wheel bearings. They do suck on our cars. But the replacement frequency is a little high, even for such POS bearings...Me thinks the people she goes to are hammering the bearings in  , causing catastrophic , early failures...
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EGR block, fog light
fix, custom shift boot, monsterflow intake, Ecotek valve
Quasi dual cardoctor exhaust.
Hacksaw short shift, Momo race "s" carbon knob, ghetto rear strut bar, 16 inch cougar wheels with 225/50/16 kumho 712s
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BTW, can someone tell her to buy a terrcel next time? that way she can weld the hood shut, never do any maintenance, and it will still run 100K...
Marco Tatta
98.5 SE MTX, Duratec
EGR block, fog light
fix, custom shift boot, monsterflow intake, Ecotek valve
Quasi dual cardoctor exhaust.
Hacksaw short shift, Momo race "s" carbon knob, ghetto rear strut bar, 16 inch cougar wheels with 225/50/16 kumho 712s
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That site is old. I found it last year, but never bother posting it since most of that list of repair is maintenance stuff. That list is considerably less than my list of repair already! But the thing I have to say is a problem is definitely the wheel bearing. I replaced my right front wheel bearing2 times and they kept going bad in about half a year. Now, I'm running a brand new steering knuckle (with new hub and new bearing already pressed in), and hopefully it'll last at least 60k miles. The left front bearing has also been replaced, except this was done at a shop that works primarily on BMW's, Porsches, Mercedes... That one is gone now also, so I'm going to put a new steering knuckle in too.
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Originally posted by The Honkeytonk Monkey: Originally posted by J Vitolo: [b]ill say it once and ill say it again CANADA SUCKS! 
[/b]Hey! Take off, ya hoser! :p Don't knock the Great White North, eh! LoL Stephen
96 Contour, GL, Zetec, ATX.
03/18/1996 Build Date.
Drop in K&N
NGK Laser Platinum Premium Spark plugs
Niehoff Premium Ignition wires
Wheel Well Air Intake Resonator removed.
*Just the beginning*
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what about the transmission going on a 4yr old car?
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Originally posted by Dionysus:
This girl is a moron... and the only thing she's good at is complaining.
Haven't met a woman yet that isn't good at complaining...
'98 Mystique LS V6 MTX
"Unprofessional driver, wide open course."
#9 - Hitting .400 for ever
"Wake up the damn Bambino; I'll drill him in the ass." -- Pedro Martinez
"The MTX75 was not designed to be a drag racing transmission" -- Terry Haines
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Originally posted by sara's voice:
what about the transmission going on a 4yr old car? Thats nothing my parents had a Chevrolet were the Tranny failed before the first oil change.
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Originally posted by sara's voice:
what about the transmission going on a 4yr old car? How much do you know about the car before it was purchased? Was it beat on, were the fluids changed at regular intervals? If you ignore and pound on a tranny, it sure can go out in 4 years.
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"brake torquing" an automatic is particularly abusive, it heats the fluid up quite a bit, and heat is what causes transmission fluid to break down. Wouldn't do it to a car I cared about! Brian Originally posted by PA 3L SVT:
If you ignore and pound on a tranny, it sure can go out in 4 years.
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Haha Mangler very true, a terdcel will never require any work, a good friend of mine has a paseo which is like a terdcel or a corolla with different sheetmetal or something, anyway she has 115k miles and NEVER a repair, only oil and filter changes!
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