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I had a problem like this for almost two years, but mine started around 40 m.p.h. and it was loud too. It drove me nuts! (aw man, what an awful pun..) I took it everywhere, replaced my wheel bearings, had my axles rebuilt, rotated, balanced, and replaced tires: all with no luck! Recently I had my transmission and differential replaced and now the noise and the vibration is gone. My friend who did the work said one of the bearings where the axle goes into the differential was all crazy kinds of worn out. But come to think of it, the vibration did get worse with acceleration and was way fainter while coasting. Just a suggestion, I hope you get it worked out!

aw man, I should do the oil pump too? I thought I was doing real good knowing that I needed to replace the water pump with it.. Sigh. And I'm not too sure about the meet on Saturday, my car isn't done yet; my friend is going to help me next week. I would love to go, but with my car and KyleKonvicka's car in the shop, it doesn't look too promising. Although I could always ride with SpacePanda but I'm not sure if he's still going or not.

How many of y'all are still planning on going?

Ok, turns out it was my timing belt. And now I'm glad it wouldn't turn back on.. Thank you guys for the suggestions!

Yeah it was so sudden, I just don't know. I was thinking maybe my timing belt, but that's a relatively uneducated guess..

Hi everyone.. My car broke down yesterday and I was hoping one of you could help me guess what is wrong with my car because the anxiety is killing me. I was driving about 60 mph on the freeway last night when started to hear a quiet rattling coming from the engine. I put my car in neutral to see if it was just my wheel bearings because one of them has been making noise lately, but disengaging the engine made the noise stop. So I put it back into gear and over the next 30 seconds this metal rattling started to get louder; it almost sounded like someone had put a metal washer in a blender and pushed purée..

Meanwhile, I figure this is probably a good time to get off the interstate, and while I'm getting over into the next exit lane, my battery light, check engine light, and oil pressure light all come on and I realize the car is off. So I coast as far as I can down the feeder and push the car into a gas station. There was a little smoke in the cabin but it didn't smell like anything was burning.

I never realized how heavy our cars actually were until I had to push it 1/4 mile...talk about a workout. At the gas station, I checked my oil and it was fine, and my engine temperature never even budged from its usual spot. I tried to restart the car but it made this awful, awful noise like when you turn your key and the car is already on and after that I didn't want to try to restart it anymore.

I recently had my transmission, front wheel bearings, and clutch replaced (about 1 week ago), but it's been running fine until last night. I'm very new and inexperienced with cars, but I love my Celica and I'm really worried about it... Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong??

SpacePanda.. you're still going right? Kyle talked me into going, he's going to ride with me.