Daxie

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

So..... my sweet little Mustang that I so dearly am falling in love with started popping on the check engine light. No problem... take it in and get a dionogsitc done and comes back O2 sensor, but doesn't say which one. No problem.

So I call my uncle and ask if he can replace it for me and install an alarm. 'Sure' he says. So I skip my happy ass to the parts store to get the part and an alarm. I know that most likely only the upper is bad, but I figure, meh, may as well replace both since it's getting done anyways.

So I get to the part store to discover that the part will be $70.... EACH! The alarm wasn't too bad, only $50 Well, OK.... my hand is a little shaky when I give the guy my credit card, but I figure, hey, this will most likely be a one time replacement as the sensors don't go out too quickly (I think they have about a +/-10 year life span), plus the security I'll feel knowing my car will be proteted by the screaching of a alarm if some one tries to break into it (not to mention the sound of a bullet from a .38 wizzing over their head when I hear my alarm go off).

Get to my uncle's house and as he's looking at the car, he realizes that the upper sensor might be a bitch to get at and goes for the lower one first. As he's under there he looks back and hollers out "HEY! there's 3 O2 sensors on this car!" WHAT? why the fuck would there be 3?

He starts to explain that my Mustang has factory headders (that no one knew about, even they guy I bought it off of, untill today), the exhust splits into 2 from the manifold, it has 2 converters and therefore, 2 lower O2 sensors.

Well.... OK.... so another $70 to get the third one.... well... whatever. So he puts the 2 on behind the converters then tries to tackle the upper sensor. Well... need a special tool for that and of course he doesn't have it. can't get to the part to remove it.

As he's looking at the car trying to figure out a way to get to the sensor without having to buy this special tool I hear him, once again from under the car, "What the fuck? Well that's intresting." Now I'm thinking 'Oh no.... he found some other problem that might be major bucks to fix' so cautously I ask "What's intresting?" the reply..... "You also have 2 upper O2 sensors".

WHAT THE FUCK WAS FORD THINKING WHEN THEY BUILT THIS CAR?????????

So, there's yet again another $70!

What started out as a $190 investment has now turned into $330, plus $15 for this tool he needs.....$345 total. Plus a few weeks ago I droped in a a new battery for about $50

Well, there is a few silver linings in my dark cloud..... his buddy, the guy I bought the car from works at the warehouse of the part store so we plan to hit him up in the morning to use his 10% employee discount for the other 2 sensors and the tool, once the sensors are taken care of the car will get better gas miliage, and at least I have someone to work on my car without having to take it to a shop and pay out the ass in labor charges.

Cost of car: $3,500
Cost of repairs to date: $395
The look on the other guy's face when I blow his doors off on the highway: PRICELESS!

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