Q: Is this a good car to own and what is the cost/reliability?

If your car has a manual transmission, the some of the hard parts inside the transmission may be damaged. A manual transmission has gears, bearings, brass synchronizers, etc. Some of these are used together in certain gears and not in...

If your coolant is low, you may have a leak that needs repaired. If your coolant level is normal, the problem may be with your thermostat (this part regulates engine temp), the cooling fan, or radiator. You need to have...

Hello. A knock can be caused by a number of things. It can be as serious as an internal engine failure or it may be a misfire or a failure in the timing belt. When a knock occurs I always...

This may be a sign of a faulty coolant fan relay (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/cooling-fan-relay-replacement). This relay receives input from the coolant temperature sensor which reads the temperature of the coolant in your radiator. As it reaches a certain temperature, the cooling fan...

Hi there. The question you have presented is somewhat confusing. I'm not sure, if you are actually putting a fan inside the car to circulate the air out of the vehicle or the radiator cooling fan runs after the vehicle...

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The sensor after the first catalyst is the one giving you code P0420 and should be replaced if the catalyst is good and you have no other codes in the system.

It sounds like you may have a bad coolant temperature sensor (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/coolant-temperature-switch-sensor-replacement) that may be causing problems with regulating the temperature in the motor as well as impacting the air/fuel ratio and potentially the ignition timing controlled by the ECM....

This suggests you may have a leak resulting from a failing gasket somewhere in your engine. As you know, there are many different places in your motor that are sealed by gaskets. I would suggest narrowing this down by placing...