I'm pretty pissed. My car's been in and out of what I thought was a good trustworthy shop. It was throwing a couple of codes, one for evap leak, the other for a tranny switch. Two weeks ago the tranny switch was fixed and I'm pretty sure that's when they removed my air intake and left it in pieces in my engine bay....
After I got the car back I drove it very little and ended up having to take it back because my evap CEL came back on (p1456). They fixed it, and since I finally had the car back I took it to get an oil change later that day and the mechanic comes out to tell me my after market air intake was "all taken apart and just laying under the hood" so he connected everything back up for me.
Dammit.. I just can't believe how stupid someone was to close the hood on an unattached air intake and hand me the keys. The engine had 160k on it but it was in really good shape, now I don't know. My driveway is a long dirt road and the car went up and down it probably eight times, but other than that regular old roads are all I drove on. I probably drove the car for less than an hour total in the past two weeks.
What do you guys think? Is my my engine in significantly worse shape than it was? The car's driving fine now and I'm not noticing anything different but I know I probably won't for a long while. I don't know if I should raise hell with whoever did this or just accept it, not really sure what they could do for me since any damage is done now.
One other question. So I had a smoke test done and the tranny switch checked done, the tranny switch being taken care of the first time I took the car in. Am I correct in assuming you need to remove the air intake to get to the switch? I'm trying to figure out if they did this the first visit or my most recent visit. Would any portion of a smoke test involve opening the hood and removing the intake?
Sorry for ranting a bit, I'm just still pretty bummed. Any advice on this situation greatly appreciated guys, thanks
After I got the car back I drove it very little and ended up having to take it back because my evap CEL came back on (p1456). They fixed it, and since I finally had the car back I took it to get an oil change later that day and the mechanic comes out to tell me my after market air intake was "all taken apart and just laying under the hood" so he connected everything back up for me.
Dammit.. I just can't believe how stupid someone was to close the hood on an unattached air intake and hand me the keys. The engine had 160k on it but it was in really good shape, now I don't know. My driveway is a long dirt road and the car went up and down it probably eight times, but other than that regular old roads are all I drove on. I probably drove the car for less than an hour total in the past two weeks.
What do you guys think? Is my my engine in significantly worse shape than it was? The car's driving fine now and I'm not noticing anything different but I know I probably won't for a long while. I don't know if I should raise hell with whoever did this or just accept it, not really sure what they could do for me since any damage is done now.
One other question. So I had a smoke test done and the tranny switch checked done, the tranny switch being taken care of the first time I took the car in. Am I correct in assuming you need to remove the air intake to get to the switch? I'm trying to figure out if they did this the first visit or my most recent visit. Would any portion of a smoke test involve opening the hood and removing the intake?
Sorry for ranting a bit, I'm just still pretty bummed. Any advice on this situation greatly appreciated guys, thanks
