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post Oct 19, 2008 - 5:31 PM
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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??
 
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post Oct 28, 2008 - 1:12 PM
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Damn - If you need help I'm sure Stephen and I could knock it out. Let us know.


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- nutmeg   Help! What is wrong with my car??   Oct 19, 2008 - 5:31 PM
- - samir0189   The starting problem sounds like the starter gear ...   Oct 19, 2008 - 5:50 PM
- - nutmeg   Yeah it was so sudden, I just don't know. I w...   Oct 19, 2008 - 10:21 PM
- - samir0189   Yeah dude, I dunno I was guessing about the starti...   Oct 19, 2008 - 11:09 PM
- - 96celica25thann   Take it to a Repair shop and hook it up o an obd 1...   Oct 19, 2008 - 11:26 PM
- - nutmeg   Ok, turns out it was my timing belt. And now I...   Oct 27, 2008 - 6:22 PM
- - RickJamesBish   Glad you got it resolved...I think I need to repla...   Oct 27, 2008 - 8:52 PM
- - stephen_lee   You got it repaired already? And our engines are ...   Oct 28, 2008 - 12:02 PM
- - DEATH   Damn - If you need help I'm sure Stephen and I...   Oct 28, 2008 - 1:12 PM
|- - stephen_lee   QUOTE (DEATH @ Oct 28, 2008 - 1:12 P...   Oct 28, 2008 - 1:57 PM
- - DEATH   There's more room over there on the ST to do i...   Oct 28, 2008 - 2:00 PM
- - stephen_lee   To do the timing belt?? oh yeah, there's plent...   Oct 28, 2008 - 2:58 PM
- - DEATH   On the S Series motors there is only barely an inc...   Oct 28, 2008 - 3:04 PM
- - stephen_lee   Right, the A series has about an inch and a half t...   Oct 28, 2008 - 3:08 PM
|- - RickJamesBish   QUOTE (stephen_lee @ Oct 28, 2008 - 3...   Oct 28, 2008 - 3:09 PM
- - GriffGirl   Are there any good write-ups on changing the T-bel...   Oct 28, 2008 - 3:13 PM
- - RickJamesBish   But do you?   Oct 28, 2008 - 3:26 PM
|- - GriffGirl   QUOTE (RickJamesBish @ Oct 28, 2008 - 1...   Oct 28, 2008 - 7:58 PM
|- - RickJamesBish   Ghey.   Oct 28, 2008 - 8:15 PM
- - nutmeg   aw man, I should do the oil pump too? I thought I...   Oct 28, 2008 - 7:40 PM
- - trdproven   I was just about to say timing belt is the main ca...   Oct 29, 2008 - 5:11 AM


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