well, it seems as if i have the worst luck when it comes to my rides.

all of my cars have been red and 2 doors. with the exception of my late 93 BBtouring.

all of them were hit and run on.

here is where it gets sad for the FD's

(civic si hit and run on 2/98)
(300zx hit and run on 1/99)

BB touring hit-and-run on 2/14/2000
BB touring totalled 7/4/01 pics here somewhere
my other touring has seen it worse, minus not having been totalled.

-light cover flew off, cracked windsheild...7-01
-8" carriage bolt goes through RH C2 rear wheel and tire and proceeds to damage the rotor and heat/dust sheild 10-01
-hit by a security guard in a golf cart at work9-01
-blown motor at track 11-01

i have had ok luck since new engine, until monday night while coming back from the tool concert in shreveport,LA. my ******* c-west headlight cover came off! WTF? i never even heard/saw it.

all

guess that i am just venting, but it seems like i have real shitty luck with cars in general...

anyone else care to share their bad luck **** so i don't burn my car down tonight...

louis

 

I have been cursed with bad luck since I bought my car and it melted down due to a faulty heat gauge a week after I bought it.

My latest shitty luck: I paid some dumb *** 3000.00 bucks to paint my car, after 8 weeks of waiting and getting fed up I get the car back. The paint and the body work would have made anyone cry, after i had invested the whole winter in a single turbo conversion. So I take the car back to another body shop and get an estimate for another paint job, telling the guy about how i got screwed. This is the good part, they take off the fiberglass GTC front and I get a phone call. The bastard must have backed up and ripped the whole front off the car and it is just barely sticking together with bondo. So they had to rebuild the GTC from the inside and i dont have a clue of what extra this is going to cost. Plus they were sanding it down and informed Me that it will have to be a bare metal strip because of all the **** paint, nice. Oh and the body man dropped my East bear light breaking the one bulb.

The summer is coming to an end soon in Canada and this is week 3 at this body shop, enough to make Me crazy.

 

Hit and run should be cause for capital punishment. My friend's '00 Celica saw his car get hit by a pizza delivery car that was backing up, but he was too far away to get the license plate.

 

I've had a run of bad luck with my Fd as well. But I don't even want to talk about it I'm so disgusted with my car.
First it was turbos then it was door ding/ then it was the hood folding back in the wind. Then it was hail damage to the whole focking car. Now my coolant seals went south. I'm just going to take it offthe road for the rest of the year to get a break from it. I 'll resume sometime next year.

 

i'll bet that there is some statistic of FD owners/and attempetd suicide somewhere.

i'll bet there is a secret chamber of us at the local nut house. too much time spent trying to "work out the bugs"

i'll never get rid of mine. it gives me something to do. and unlike a woman, won't talk back when i bitch slap it for letting the battery die, and will never tell me that it likes the "other shirt better"

 

3 engines in 5 months, rebuilt A/C piece by piece... leaking powersteering pump, no abs, says all my problems as of this moment that come to mind... damn i know there is some more somewhere.

 

What happens if you have good luck with FD's?

 

Nothing . I've had some bad luck, like having to get the turbos taken out to redo a bunch of gaskets and hoses and then finding out I need a turbo rebuild a week later, so the turbos have to come out again, and then having to take off my tranny to fix the rear seal and get a new clutch, only to realize I'm going to need to rebuild the transmission soon (bearing noise). DOH. Although ironically now that I've started driving it daily it seems like it has less trouble than it did before, I swear the car needs parts on a regular basis no matter how much or how little you drive it...

 

 

ive been blessed by the lord with this car..........just hope i dont get him mad

 

only unlucky (or stupid once) see my avatar.

 

Bought 94 FD almost two years ago:

Turbo leaking-Replacement Twins installed (frm. Turbo City)
5-miles later after install......
I was going down the freeway about 60mph, a large pop under boost and a clank, clank sound a PUUUUUH and a cloud of black smoke behind the car (couldn't see the headlights behind me it was so thick) I pulled to the side of the freeway, I could smell the oil and thinking I forgot the oil tube bolts or something. I jumped out of the car and ran to the passenger side (car still smokin from the turbo area) and looked underneath and watch the oil from my turbo's dripping to the pavement,,but get this. This wasn't just oil dripping, IT WAS FLAMING OIL!! THE OIL WAS ON FIRE!!! So here I am, no extinguisher and nothing to put out the fire. I started throwing gravel from the side of the freeway underneath, the fire goes out. Whew! I was then ready for it to engulf. Boy was I lucky, but the story isn't over..

I removed the exhaust at the shop, got to the main cat (installed at the time w/ a downpipe) unbolted it, brought it to the floor and heard a clank, clank noise. I then tipped it on end, and guess what came out?? It was the impeller (totally obliverated fins) from my primary turbo..

The story isn't over yet.

I sent the turbo's back, they sent me another set and I installed those. I cleaned out the innercooler all the oil lines along with the intake hoses. I got everything back together and drove it.

I drove it for less than a week, not boosting and babying it quite a bit. Then one day on my way home from work, decided to give her a bit of heavy boost. The first turbo spooled and I felt a slight jolt, thinking humm?? I let off and drove past my exit thinking I'd try that boost thing again. I turned around heading home, got on the on ramp and gave her a 3rd gear WOT, primary boost excellent secondaries come to life and a loud POP and a heavy vibration, shut it down and coasted to the shoulder.

analysis: Busted apex seal and took out the turbo's again.

Upon engine rebuild, on the face of one of the rotor housings was an imbedded outline of a turbo impeller fin. It finally came loose and took the apex seal out.

The ending: I now have a fresh engine (from Atkins) and fresh turbo's (from Pettit) and over 11k miles.

But the happy ending is,, That National Warranty covered everything from the beginning. They don't like me much anymore, needless to say I maxed out the coverage and then some. They terminated my warranty after, go figure..

 

DOH! I have rebuilds from Turbo City . So far so good on mine though. Hey and its been almost a year now! Wow time flies...

 

Correction!! I looked in my records and it was "TURBO AUTO" in Nashville and not Turbo City.

My Apology to Turbo City, please carry on....

Nathan Kwok, that's why yours are still running

 

Damn and I thought I ran into problems..

"I swear the car needs parts on a regular basis no matter how much or how little you drive it..."

This couldn't have been said any better.


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