Its been 3 since anyone has had any car problems? nice :)

the 60's tv series recently sold for $4.2M

Any garage worth their weight will check for causes for you too.. cos may even just be down to something simple of over full of oil.. but obviously could be completely the other way and something major...
As Butch says... nothing will be known for sure till the job has been started.
I cant comment on pricing as i dont know what its like over your side of the pond.. But any job on most cars that includes dropping the transition can be a timely one unless front wheel drive, then can be shortish some times

To replace a rear main seal on a Dodge Neon (my kid's car) - - - got a quote for $400 (cutting me a break on labor, it's a six hour job) - - - I read somewhere, but can't remember where, that it's better to go with a red rubber seal (?) instead of the manufactured seal to avoid the same slippage problem happening again - - - anybody know if it'll make a difference? Also was told that all they have to do is disconnect (and drop) the trannie from the motor, clean the connections, and replace the seal, so that means that there's no "internal" trannie work needed, correct? And, while I'm at it - - - should I get them to do the "cam seal" while they're at it? If ya know, please let me know, I'm mostly car-stupid

Tuesday: that happens a lot in cars like Trabant or Lada...:^)

Why is it when I start my car in the morning, my gas gauge shows enough gas to get to work and cheaper gas, and as soon as I head the opposite direction from a gas station, my gauge hovers above empty almost immediately?

Tuesday: Is it a buzzing sound? Anyway you can record it for u to hear? What kind of car?

Tuesday: lol, the basic rule here is that any strange and or funny noises coming out of your car aren't a good thing. (just curious as to what a dirt dobber is and what the heck they sound like when building a nest)

Stevie: well, most of the time anyways:)

tazman7474: for sure.. and most are going the same direction and same speeds too hehe

Stevie: Not to mention the availability of paramedics. And don't forget our friends in the tech dept. to try and make sure we have the best protection we can while we're playing! lol

tazman7474: For sure Skip :o( and they take innocents people with them too, or wreck their lives for them. Hence the track is best place, run off and less roadside furniture etc etc also

Stevie: Yeah, we call people like that "organ donars"

Manuel M: what an idiot on public roads

madness... this was on Portugal's A1, highway Porto-Lisboa, near Coimbra (Mealhada)...

Tuesday: So is the driver hehe

Stevie: What a hottie....that car is.

Thats me... the green one, that you hear shout to camera car,,, then bang, then see the car and the flames hehe http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1798637968

Tuesday: they are special air brakes installed on semi's designed to prevent their drivers from running over young tom turkeys....which are referred to as 'Jakes'....hence the term "jake brakes"

What are Jake brakes? I was driving through Ark. last week and saw a sign..."no Jake Brakes"...but missed the rest. Is that anything like the brakes Fred Flintstone used?

tazman7474: If there had been oncoming traffic, I, and the other person would have been hurt or worse. Luckily it was late enough and a less traveled highway.

Tuesday: I thought you were kidding about the wheel! I hope you weren't going too fast when it happened.

The vehicle I mean.

tazman7474: LOL My whole life is a country song. I'm getting it looked at today. I hope it's fixable.

Tuesday: Wasn't there a country song about that? "You picked a fine time to leave me loose-wheel"

What would cause a tire to fly off of a vehicle, bounce twice, land in a field as a person swerves to stay in own lane as sparks fly?

to my scooby :o)
http://sox-main.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5529
Just have to get it remapped now, cos the intercooler is 4 times the size of the original, and the length of pipe getting to and from it ,, so much lag on the turbo boost.. should be good for 330bhp once mapped and around the same lb/ft torque, its 260bhp/ 240lb/ft now before i done this work and 0-60mph 4.7 seconds and 13 sec 0-100mph.. so looks like should be pretty cool for just a 2.0 flat 4 boxer :oD

and the first production electric sports car in history.

and imagine: it can be yours for only $664,400/540,000 € !

http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/venturi_fetish.asp

I like the 2nd one :o)

Backoff: Its even better now that most cars have plastic fenders hehehehhe

Stevie: There are few problems that can't be solved with high explosives.

Backoff: LMAO for sure, I get rid of tailgaiters with overrun flames also,, but dont use a jet engine to do it hehehehe

Stevie: That VW still has the stock motor in it to. Just think the next time someone revs on ya at a redlight lol.

Backoff: Think Ill give it a miss Bob LOL
There were Jet cars going up the strip while I was racing this weekend, love the way the shock wave hits your chest when they go past

http://www.cardomain.com/features/jetbeetle?ref=6623

Here's an upgrade for ya Steve

tazman7474: I say standard internals, but the block is from a model that has stronger internals than the original for my motor anyways :o)

Stevie: just watch that the internals don't become externals!

Bitten the bullet, bought another car for everyday use now, and trailer mine to the track instead of driving,, within next month gonna fit bigger turbo, and front mount intercooler, and remap her.. should get her to best part of 350bhp 330Lb/ft torque :o) not bad for a little 2.0 boxer engine still on standard internals LOL

Backoff: The system I go for will allow that also, and done on the road gets better results than on a rolling road also

Stevie: With a greddy e-manage unit or a camcom, you can remap your fuel settings on the fly with your laptop.

Stevie: multi-port fuel pressure drops as rpms ncrease, so I could see where you could run into a problem there. its strange the engine manufacturer didnt use a larger injector at the end of the rail to compensate.

Stevie: i'll stick with my carburater! lol

tazman7474: yep, Ive altered the air intake, I prefer it slightly rich anyways cos these motors are prone to blowing up with the slight sign of running weak,, as I found out last year. I can parralel up the fuel rails, as they are in series at the moment ( so means the final injector can be slightly starved,, and that just happens to be the usual cylinder that runs lean and fails.
I may look at a larger turbo later this year, and will upgrade the fuel pump again, and do the rails.. and then will fit larger intercooler or go for a front mount.. then I will get it remapped

Stevie: all it does is improve the fuel atomization, which brings it closer to what a fuel injection system would do. with yours being an efi motor, you're better off working on an intercooler and maybe an improved induction system(you've probably done some of that anyways)

tazman7474: My engine is probably too complicated for that sort of alteration, and getting the ECU remapped is not cheap :o(