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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:31 PM
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The first "bad thing" to happen to your car.

For my friends car, it was the spilling of a super jumbo sized mcdonalds dring on the floor of his car, for some it might be a fender bender, for most, somthing just stops working.

anyway, i had my car for a few weeks now. i was driving home last night and i went around a turn (not aggressively) to the main road and hit somthing large and metal that was right on the road. It made a 2inch slash across my front right tire and it deflated in about 5 seconds. After i got my spare on (which too about 5 minutes cuz im so savvy ) i went back to look for the metal piece that did the damage to remove it off of the face of the planet in the most poetic fashion possable. But it somehow evaded me, i couldent find it...

That was the first "bad thing" to happen to my car since i got it.

the tire is not repairable. And that really sux since i got the last race of the season this saturday. I hope i can get a new tire by then.

Whats the first thing that happend to you guys?
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:41 PM
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TPS was shot.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:46 PM
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XPLODED the tranny on a 7K upshift from 2 to 3. Tranny had 230K on it,
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:53 PM
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Toss up-

Passanger power window died, mush not be that bad being I haven't fixed it in a year and a half.

Tree branch flew out of a dump truck going the oppisite direction as me and took out my right side stock fog light.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:59 PM
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Durango or no Tranny?

Either when the transmission just died yesterday, or when my mom backed into my Rx7 in her Durango. You guys can pick.

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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:02 PM
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For me, probably when my dumb *** JB welded a some ghetto sleeves in my 86 base and when the car got warmed up, it "melted" the JB Weld and sucked in the peice of ~2" square peice of sheet metal alum and distroyed the rear rotor. DOH! --slaps self--
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:46 PM
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throw out bearing.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:53 PM
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Originally posted by Roy James
For me, probably when my dumb *** JB welded a some ghetto sleeves in my 86 base and when the car got warmed up, it "melted" the JB Weld and sucked in the peice of ~2" square peice of sheet metal alum and distroyed the rear rotor. DOH! --slaps self--
Gotta use JB industro weld, good to 600 degrees!
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:07 PM
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For me, I saw it in slow motion

I see an echo on the freeway jerk to one side and then a tire tred is slowly heading to my car. Nothing I could do to avoid it.

At least it was only paint damage, and on the bumper (no rusting).
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:08 PM
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tranny explosion. From no oil!
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:13 PM
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First bad thing to happen to my car?
It got me for an owner.

Actually, nothing. I tore it all apart the week I bought it, and replaced anything that looked sketchy. Rebuilt the motor, etc etc.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:20 PM
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Yeah same here. Had all the stuff fixed the first week I bought mine. Running great since.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:25 PM
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I autocrossed the car on day two, no problems except for the tired *** struts and tires.
Day three though left me stranded and thanking the heavens for cell phones. Blown heater hose. You know the one right under the oil filter? The one that dies from getting slathered in dino juice? That's the one...


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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 02:55 PM
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Mazda put a rotary engine in it.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:01 PM
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Well...there were things wrong with it when I got it

but the first to one to actually go bad in my possession of the car was the starter. I had to get it rebuit a month after buying the car. Since then...things have just been downhill.

I love my car!!
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:04 PM
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Hmmm....had to be on my 87 TII, blew rotor within first month of owning the car.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:05 PM
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my heater hoses like exploding.
the first time was a big bad one with huge amounts of steam pouring out of the hood. the second time was just a little crack. needless to say i replaced all my hose lines.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:32 PM
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that gotdamn clutch master cylinder
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:40 PM
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Hmm, I guess I can... a few things actually:

engine wise:

fuel pump - switched mine out with another 2G rx7, and it's worked fine ever since
water pump - went out 3 weeks after my first autox I did with her

A few months later (engine wise):

Thermostat - fixed it, hasn't over heated since. (Besides the problem with my (main?) cat, I just had replaced this past saturday)

Elec. wise:
Antenna - hasn't worked since I got the car; even after replacing it with a new one. Something inside is stuck, refraining it from going down when and after the car/radio has been shut off.
Power sunroof stopped working - Eventually I was able to make it work again.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:49 PM
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Blew the Automatic Tranny in my Daily driver 87 N/A it had about 190k on it. But it turned out for the better, I made it a 5 speed. So far the Motor has outlasted a tranny, 2 brake master cylinders, 5-7 batteries, 15ish sets of tires, 2 cats, and a **** load of other things ... thats reliable rotory power
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 03:59 PM
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My cousin and I were In his garage, the first night I bought my FC. I was sitting In the drivers seat touching everything In sight and I popped the gas tank open cover.

It turns out he was just walking around my car and he ends up hyper extending the friggen cover. It wasn't 'til last year I replaced It when I painted my car. I got It In no less than an hour when I realized my car owns me. $$$
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 04:03 PM
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My second day owning it and letting it roll out my garage with the driver's door open, getting caught on the garage, and proceding to bend forwards giving myself a big dent in the fender and door.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 04:09 PM
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LOL Damnswede, I bet you cussed for days!
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 04:15 PM
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Lets see,
Altinator was bad, but engine was overheating that was the first thing i tryed to fix, it didn't happen and good bye engine
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 04:18 PM
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Heatercore hose busted, stranding me 20 miles from anything.

I had my alternator die at night on the interstate too.
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