One of those "Shoulda stayed home" days...
Came out of Lowes yesterday to find coolant leaking from under the truck. Enough to worry me that I might not make it home (10 minutes away).
Drove home and changed the oil/filter, couldn't readily locate the coolant leak. Did find an oil leak though.
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Made an emergency appointment at the dealership in Fort Myers for that afternoon. Also strained the old oil looking for more of the mystery plastic, found none. But I'm convinced without a doubt that it came from the timing chain guides. I can see the guides from the oil fill opening and the plastic is that same reddish-brown.
Driving to the dealership, I notice a rough feeling on the throttle whenever the compressor kicks in. Like a bearing chewing itself up. WTF?
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Two miles from the dealership, I mat the throttle to avoid a mobile imbecile with a drivers license. Squat. Nothing other than the traction control light kicking on for a millisecond (Really? Rolling straight at 20 mph and I need traction control LOL) . I could have hit the cigarette lighter and gotten the same response.
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Just got a call from the dealership; Water pump leaking, covered by extended warranty. He recommends replacing the thermostat at the same time. Really? The morons up north told us this truck had no t-stat. Even down here in FL, the truck took forever to warm up. T-stat's not covered by the warranty, so with labor we're looking at around $250. Not too bad.
The tranny belly pan somehow got wacked and is touching the tranny case, so they're replacing that.
As well, the driveshaft recall which was supposedly addressed wasn't, so they're replacing that as well as another recall for the drivers' side airbag.
I told the service advisor that it would have taken less time if he'd listed what's still good on the truck......
