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So im having the best f-ckin day with my car ive had in the last 2 years. So i go out today to see how much its gonna cost to replace my timing belt tensioner and pulley. Found out thats gonna b around $150 or so for both. Not to bad, then i go to see how much its gonna cost for paint for some parts im gonna b re-painting and installing. $89 a pint. Even better. Then im driving along and start to smell burning coolant, figured it was the sh*tbox old caravan beside me, keep driving..dont smell it..pull into the parking lot of the store im going to, smell it really bad. Pop my hood..guess what? oh...my rad decided to pop on me. So i go and get a quote for a new one..for one at canadian tire..$289 and its gonna take a week to get. So im more pissed off. Decide to go up the street to the local Car Quest..find out they r closed by 4 minutes. Start to drive back to my residence..car starts to over heat. Crank the heat up, still over heating..stop..let the car cool down for 10 minutes..start it up again...already at the red line. So i push my car up behind some bank in the parking lot..call my roomate..he has no sence of direction and is a crappy driver, so he is of no help to take me to canadian tire to get some coolant and stopleak. So i call my other buddy. he comes and picks me up. Get to canadian tire..then he wants to take a tour of the entire store and buy an entire trunk load of crap. So we finaly get out of there 40 after we get there. Go to my car again..put the stop leak in, coolant in, run it for 20 min at idel..leak doesnt fully stop, but enough to get me back home. so just as im leaving, i turn to go around the corner, dont see the parking curb, and bam..curb my rim. Took a nice chunk of my rim and i think i may have bent some of my suspension parts. So yea..im having a GREAT day.

Oh did i mention i have to write up 3 lab reports due tomorrow morning at 8am that are at least 4 pages long each that i havent started..AND that i have 2 exams tomorrow..1 at 8AM exactly for 40 minutes practical, then a 3 hour physics exam right after. This day is AWSOME!!!

needed to vent

that sucks man i know how ya feel... but tomorrows another day (duno if thats a good or bad thing sometimes) hehe

Dude that sucks!

Dinging your rim really would have been icing on the cake. I hope tomorrow is better

And for the record, I HATE lab reports with a passion!

dude dont even worry about it, tomorrow is 420, just get RIPPED, you wont even remember your poor car or the lame ass labs...

Oh man 2 exams and 3 four page papers holy sh*t. I feel you man, taking a huge chunk from the rims probably toped everything off. All the other is fixable, but you'll have to order some new wheels.

for the radiator, you can just have the leak welded shut. or get a replacement radiator from someone on here, they aren't hard to replace.

for the other stuff, I can't help you. but why would you leave 3 lab reports that are 4 pages each until the last minute?

already ordered my rad. And i left them to the last minute because for the last few months ive been dealing with alot of personal problems and have been tryin 2 deal with some one in my family whos really ill. So i have been trying to get my school work done, but it doesnt happen all the time.

aww man that sucks

Hope you get everything sorted ok, and good luck with the reports / exams man.

valo, whatever you do... don't let CT install the rad...they are fckheads!!

they totally screwed me on an emergency install of a thermostat this winter on my BMW 540i. the outside temps were -20 for 15 days straight and i could not envision driving to work at 4am one more day after day 5. BTW the car would heat up to a balmy -5 by the time i got into work. if it weren't 40below and i didn't give a F*&%, i would have been out there doing it myself. they bled coolant onto the bottom splash pan which they should have removed [it still stinks when i drive it]. did not torque down the fittings, clamps and bolts, charged me for PERSONAL COURRIER SERVICE and refused to top off my rad when i returned the next day with a low coolant warning. get it all in writing upfront and watch them like a hawk.

i said i would never go back there 20 years ago when they screwed me on an oil change (old filter was still on the car, drain plug was loose [hand tight only] and charged me for 6 litres of oil for a POS Honda Accord that only holds 4l [barely]).


cheers

ray

PS 289$ sounds "cheap" to me...make sure it's not a piece of crap knockoff or recore. check the condition of the fins, brackets and casing before they install it, PLEASE?!?

This post has been edited by axelrduvirage: Apr 22, 2007 - 7:12 PM

i didnt get one from crappy tire, i ended up buyin one from Car Quest. It cost me $333.04 with the new rad, and upper and lower rad hoses with my apprenticeship discount. But i did get it installed at crappy tire, but they did manage to F a few things up. Im gonna b goin back tomorrow and giving them an earful of complaints. They spilled coolant EVERY WHERE!! and didnt clean it up at all. plus i gave them some pretty specific instructions and they managed to f-ck them up 2. So yea, im gonna go back tomorrow and b*tch at the manager and try and get my money back.

wow... sorry to hear about all of this, i dont know how you do it... but best of luck to you!! also wish you some good marks on ur exams

sorry i was late with my reply...i guess i could have saved u a headache or 2. just pulled the Celipig from the snobank last month and haven't started trolling 6gc.net like i used to.




This post has been edited by axelrduvirage: Apr 22, 2007 - 8:47 PM