So I let a roommate borrow my car, trying to be the nice guy that I am, because he bent a rim hitting a pothole (going allegedly 20 mph, but that is irrelevant). I asked for the car back when he was making no progress on repairing his wheel 3 weeks after the incident and it seemed like he was abusing his priviledge to drive my car.
To the problem: When I got the car back, it was idling terribly whilst shaking the entire car relatively violently. The shaking gets less and less violent the higher you get in the RPMs. The odd thing is that it decelerates smoothly :? Another thing to note is that there is a severe power loss. My car is now quite possibly the slowest car on the road. I haven't taken it on the freeway since I got the car back, but I imagine it would merge into traffic at about 30-40mph if I was wide open throttle--it is that bad. Lastly, whether irrelevant or not, the car runs relatively rich at idle, and the exhaust still has a gasoline smell to it (which may or may not indicate that all of the fuel is being ignited).
I don't know if this problem has anything to do with letting my roommate drive the car, or if the problem was simply coincidental. I just thought I would give some background into the problem to give you all a better idea to the situation. Albeit my roommate, nor anyone else for that matter, will be driving my car ever again--lesson learned. Any help to the problem would be greatly appreciated as it would save me a ton of time snooping around under the hood with half a clue of what I'm doing. I'd like my e30 to get me around a little faster than a tricycle :oops: Thanks in advance!
-Tyler
To the problem: When I got the car back, it was idling terribly whilst shaking the entire car relatively violently. The shaking gets less and less violent the higher you get in the RPMs. The odd thing is that it decelerates smoothly :? Another thing to note is that there is a severe power loss. My car is now quite possibly the slowest car on the road. I haven't taken it on the freeway since I got the car back, but I imagine it would merge into traffic at about 30-40mph if I was wide open throttle--it is that bad. Lastly, whether irrelevant or not, the car runs relatively rich at idle, and the exhaust still has a gasoline smell to it (which may or may not indicate that all of the fuel is being ignited).
I don't know if this problem has anything to do with letting my roommate drive the car, or if the problem was simply coincidental. I just thought I would give some background into the problem to give you all a better idea to the situation. Albeit my roommate, nor anyone else for that matter, will be driving my car ever again--lesson learned. Any help to the problem would be greatly appreciated as it would save me a ton of time snooping around under the hood with half a clue of what I'm doing. I'd like my e30 to get me around a little faster than a tricycle :oops: Thanks in advance!
-Tyler
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