Reader Questions

Water In Fuel Tank Causing Fuel Pump Damage?

Firstly, when I looked you up to ask you the following question, I sincerely didn’t expect to get an auto insurance ad.I did the darn thing tho’ and, after I do a thorough check of their customer’s satisfaction thru the normal avenues, I think I might actually switch to Encompass. I think I might save about $1100 a year and maybe more when my daughter gets her permit because they don’t charge for permitted drivers; they just need to know they are driving! Trust me, this is a phenomenon I’ve never seen and I’ve been with 3 insurance companies over the last 27 years and checked into I don’t know how many others. Obviously, I bookmarked a lot of pages to show my wife. Anyway, onto my question, which I can honestly say, I’m not sure has been addressed in much depth. I have spent……….. I don’t know, I would guess 12 to 15 hours researching before I finally gave up. The problem I have is that, for reasons I need not go into here, the level of our company’s delivery van’s gasoline tank say that 3 times in a row real fast is kept low at all times. In the last 4 years I have been here, the engine, when extremely low on gas starts to rattle and doesn’t stop until we fork over several hundreds of dollars each time to a mechanic.The fact that the check engine light and rattling begins when the fuel is either out or all but out, leads me to think that there is water in the tank due to all the reasons that water gets into tanks, blah, blah, blah.

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98 Nissan Maxima Serpentine Fan Belt Noise

I am writing to ask for your assistance in helping me determine what is wrong with my car. The car is a 1998 Automatic Nissan Maxima with 100,000 miles. The problem I am having is a loud squealing noise when the engine turns over and while the AC is in use. However , recently the noise continues even while the AC is not in use. Sometimes the squealing will only last a few seconds and other times the squealing will last longer and will even become louder as the gas pedal is pressed.

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2000 Chevy Yukon Engine Knocking Noise From Too Much Oil?

Had oil changed in a 2000 Yukon 147,000 Miles by a dealership. Around the time that the new oil change was required 150,000 Miles about 3000 miles on the oil the engine started to make a terrible knocking whining noise with no check engine light.

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1993 Mitsubishi Lancer Instrument Panel Replacement

Hi,I wanted to ask your advice on changing the instrument panel of my car. I have a 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer, CC model, Automatic Transmission 3 speed, Hatchback 5 door. The car currently has an instrument cluster with 3 gauges: A Speedometer, fuel and temperature. If I changed the instrument cluster from another Lancer that also has a Tachometer gauge on it, would it operate properly?

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Engine Stalling and Erratic Idle Speed – 1990 Peugeot 405

Here is an interesting experience you may like to note as typical of the bull headed approach taken by too many so – called mechanics incapable of methodical analysis

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Heater Core Leaked – Pontiac Grand Prix – Cleaning Car Carpet

My daughter’s car has a Pontiac Grand Prix, which had a heating coil leak last week. The carpet was very wet on the passenger side. Should I be concerned about toxic mold setting up?

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1990 Chevrolet C2500 Idle Surges and Floods Out

I have a 1990 Chevrolet C2500 5.7L fuel injection truck that has started having starting problems. It does not start as it used to (or starting at a fast idle and then slowing to a slow idle), then as it warms up it starts flooding out.

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2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo – Stalls at Slow Speeds

I have a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo v-6. When I am idling at a light, my jeep has shut off about seven times. It starts right back up though. When I am idling and sometimes while driving my car will rev up and the RPMs go up and then back down to normal.

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How To Increase Fuel Mileage in Your Car

We have a 1999 Toyota Corolla with 92k miles on it. It used to have very good gas mileage in the past 3 years, but during the last couple of months, it declined from 35 MPG to 26 MPG gradually. While my driving habit, route, places traveled, everything are still the same. We wonder what is wrong with it.

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Car Spark Plugs and Fuel Efficiency

I just replaced my spark plugs with Bosch Platinum 2. Now I am getting 1 MPG less than I was before the switch.

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