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Frost__2001,Apr 14 2010, 03:19 PM Wrote:is this Focus an SPI? because most of the symptoms your listing are typical signs that the engine has blown, more so the part "turn the key and nothing at all" but the car has power.
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Remind me not to talk to you about a doomsday scenario :P


Wire harness that goes to the coil pack was starting to come apart. One of the wires had infact fully rusted off. Another one was on it's way out.

Canadian Tire got my 100.57$ to diagnose it (says it took em 2 effin hours to diagnose that there was no spark, and the reason why. I swear it took em 5 minutes. No way a licensed mech took 2 hours to figure out a wire was split right near the coil pack, especially because I told them flat out I didn't know if it was getting spark but it sure as hell is getting gas and is turning over (and to make this run on sentence longer, the battery was fine too).

ANNNNNNNYWAY

They wanted 89$ (their hourly labour rate) to solder 2 of the wires back into the clip. I argued a bit with the service manager and eventually we disagreed and I stormed out of the mid conversation saying "push it back into the parking lot you're not touching my car anymore".

Hell, even the mechanic was getting angry. Sorry, but I won't pay 90$+Tax to solder TWO wires back into a plug. NOOOOOOOOOOT worth it. Not unless I get to watch the sucker take an hour to do it so that I can then take his job.

Oh, apparently "everyone is a mechanic" except for the part where in the parking lot... with a wire and a pair of vice grips I completed the circuit and got the bitch started up... 4 of the crappy tire mechanics were looking over at my smiling/laughing, then one of them came up and asked me what I had done to get it going.

Showed it to him, told him his asshole boss wanted 90 bucks to do it. drove it down to another garage 500m down the street (the guys who gave me the wire and vice grips) and they took the plug off, taped all the wires in properly for twenty dollars.

I still have to get the plug fixed/replaced but apparently its dealer-only... so this 20$ fix will have to hold for a while (freaking hell though, still 80$ cheaper than crappy tire AND I got the whole "oh hey, this needs to be greased, brb one sec" and then they do those extra little things).


Anyway, kinda got issues now because the spark plugs are fouled so I can't go WOT without it bogging and getting too much gas AAAAAAAAAAND to make things better, I've got something in the drivetrain going wrong. My brother's mustang does it too and it sounds disgusting but essentially if I give it some gas, there's this metal, dangling type noise. Almost like its metal rattling against metal shavings... I'd compare it to a set of keys shaking against each other, but coming from underneath the hood with a lot more "ohhh that doesn't sound good!!"

But! Tomorrow is another day. p.s. car has 113k on it.