View Full Version : MAJOR HELP PLEASE
JennaJ
03-23-2005, 12:14 PM
again after having the car for a week with the stock headers - i finally get a call today saying i have to pay 5 hours of labor before the shop will even take off the other headers and put the stock ones
THEY WANT ME TO PAY $350 now!! and thats just for header work - not even fixing the rest of the car....
no humanily way possible to i have that much money right now... not really working - trying to find a new job.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! take time to help me take off the ss headers and put the stock ones back on PLEASE!!
ill do what ever i can for repayment of your hard work when i can.
jojolmnop
03-23-2005, 12:39 PM
never really done headers before. that and i won't even be in town this weekend.
-shrug-
the message is confusing tho. you already have stock headers on? or still the crapon-R ones? do you need it on to get something done? is the car alive and well?
JennaJ
03-23-2005, 01:10 PM
currently the weapon r headers are on the car
i need to take them off - so i can put the stock headers back on
the car is not running - has not since f**king Jan 30th
something might be wrong with the TPS? i dont know i havent looked at it - and even if i did - i still wouldnt know
the car doesnt stay running - car wont even idle 1000rpms - stalls out
im afraid to take it to the dealer - b/c with performance headers being on the car - it will void my warranty. worse comes to worse - once the stock headers are back on - ill have the dealership actually fix the car. I'll play the dumb blonde girl who knows nothing about the exhaust and no cat (ah duh whats that? is that in the trunk) and maybe my warranty will cover fixing the rest of it.
because im taking it to lincoln/mercury to get the body work done from the vandalism claim
jojolmnop
03-23-2005, 01:25 PM
have your bf install them. heh.
JennaJ
03-23-2005, 01:50 PM
he is an ET in the navy - he could probably take apart my cars computer or design a new wiring harness
but mechanically inclined :stupid:
jojolmnop
03-23-2005, 02:04 PM
hehe, yeah. i'm just wary about headers. it was a pain enough just getting my ypipe off and install the new one. ugh. that and replacing the o2 sensor on that rear header. it was a royal pain i don't want to relive. so cramped in there.
tnkgurl
03-23-2005, 03:15 PM
I don't think you have to worry about the o2 sensor with the '01 and '02's, but I could be wrong.
Sorry, Sam, wish I could help.
JennaJ
03-23-2005, 03:30 PM
thanks jon - but that still doesnt help me
jojolmnop
03-23-2005, 04:01 PM
yeah, i know. i'm not being of much help.
Crispy
03-23-2005, 08:42 PM
eek.... get those blasted headers off without damaging them so they can go to a new home :biggrin:
Sam... definately sounds like a TPS issue.
JennaJ
03-24-2005, 12:46 AM
looks like ill be getting the car towed someplace tomorrow so they can get them off
who knows how much this will cost me :cry:
1sloCAT
03-24-2005, 01:40 AM
If I was you I would take the car to MAS Performance on haygood road, they are real good guys up there. Not to mention that they have done a lot of work on cougars uo there. the guy you want to talk to is named bob. real good people give them a call. ITs on haygood raod in VA bch.
jojolmnop
03-24-2005, 10:44 AM
Originally posted by: 1sloCAT
If I was you I would take the car to MAS Performance on haygood road, they are real good guys up there. Not to mention that they have done a lot of work on cougars uo there. the guy you want to talk to is named bob. real good people give them a call. ITs on haygood raod in VA bch.
yeah, i live near there. i saw one cougar there before getting nitrous work done but that was years ago. they have that beast of an integra there as well.
JennaJ
03-25-2005, 01:04 PM
ill give them a call this morning because now total estimate to fix the car is at least $525
no way can i pay that!!
JennaJ
03-28-2005, 12:07 PM
looks like ill be spending close to $525 to get this work done.
really not happy about that...:disgust:
even sadder that no one would take 1 day out of their life to help me :shrug:
MAS wanted to charge me $480 - a little less - but id have to pay another $45 just to get my car towed over there - and whatever else extra after for fixing the car - so im just going to leave it where it is
this place called Hutch's off Cleveland
ThdrCat
03-30-2005, 10:57 PM
Sorry kiddo no time to take off other wise I'd give' hell.
1sloCAT
03-31-2005, 08:11 PM
Jenna I was just up at mas like 20 min. ago and he seems to think that it is something stupid thats making your car not run right. he said that theres no way in hell that putting headers on is going to cause problems, unless something is not hooked right. don't go back to stock huge waste of money and even more important huge waste of hp. you might get it up to mas and some electrical thing might not be plugged in. you never know.
JennaJ
03-31-2005, 08:42 PM
this whole thing as been nothing but HELL for me over the last 2 months.
the shop looked at the car - things were hooked up right - no idea why the car wasnt running right...???
hutch's just fixed the car - yeah i know it SUCKS - but changed things back to stock - took headers off, fixed the exhaust leak i guess the car runs GREAT!! now
the mechanics said they were unable to just fix the problem - that things just needed to get put back.
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS - THEY DIDNT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT PROPERLY???!!!
total charge is $508.93 - the car was fixed on monday the 28th - BUT - its still sitting at their shop becuase i dont have the money to pay for it right now.
so GOOD NEWS - car runs again - BAD NEWS - i cant afford to get my car back at least until Wed....
REGARDLESS once i get my car back i need to drop it off at the dealership so i can get the Vandalism on my car fixed too...
SO no way am i even getting my car back prolly before April 11th... :cry:
jojolmnop
03-31-2005, 10:07 PM
and the moral of the story is.... stay away from weapon-cRap.
sorry. i'm not heartless, i just try to make light of the situation to hopefully make one feel better. it's probably not working.
Outlaw4Shrt
04-03-2005, 07:06 PM
Did you use the stock gaskets when you installed the weapon r headers? There shouldn't be any issues with installing those headers on a 2001+ cougar. An exhaust leak means that there was an installation error. Either someone re-used the original gaskets which is a big no-no or some one didn't tighten up the bolts at the manifold or joints on the y-pipe. You could have checked for tightness on each bolt at the manifolds and on the y-pipe and reset the battery and probably saved yourself two-months of pain and $500 without taking the weapon r headers off. I wish I had seen this sooner. Good luck with everything and I'm sorry things didn't work out very well for you with those headers.
Adrian
JennaJ
04-03-2005, 09:24 PM
hunny - trust me if it was just an issue of tightening up bolts - i think i would have been able to figure that out too myself...
StealthCougar
04-03-2005, 10:02 PM
not to be rude..but your avatar and sig pic make me horny >:)>
I'd help if I had the time...I love a challenge.
jojolmnop
04-03-2005, 11:03 PM
:rofl:
ThdrCat
04-04-2005, 11:00 PM
how come i'm never called hunny. :cry:
JennaJ
04-05-2005, 09:33 AM
because your my cajun cupcake!!
adrian and me go way back - back to EmpireNECO - in NY - when we was still at West Point.
ThdrCat
04-05-2005, 07:33 PM
oh i see:biggrin:
Outlaw4Shrt
04-06-2005, 09:40 AM
Sam seriously, that's all an exhaust leak is. Did you install it yourself or did you have a shop do it? Don't throw those headers away because there's really nothing wrong with them. I might be able to put them in correctly sometime if you want. I'm not that far away. Just let me know.
A
jojolmnop
04-06-2005, 10:00 AM
well, her boyfriend installed it. i was thinking an exhaust leak but assumed that she would have checked that first.