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Backstory: Been saving money since I was a Junior in High School, Pizzaria, Alladvantage.com, TJ Maxx, and now working at a Bank doing collections work. Looked at getting 59 2 door T-bird, 65 Corvair at first. Since I graduated I really looked into getting a Mitsubishi Lancer(only had seen pictures of the ev7 figured it couldn't be that different), 6th generation Toyota Celica, 97/98 Nissan 240sx, a 94/95 BMW 3 series, or Acura Integra

2 weeks ago I finally found a car that was close to me, don't laugh at the price, I live in Fort Wayne, IN - this car could go for $7k+ here because this is Detriot land- hard to find anything that isn't American made and if it isn't its a piece of **** rust bucket. So I turned to the internet, autotrader and ebay.

I started to compose this about 2 hours ago, I figured I'd have to put some work into this car, took it over to a friend who has 2 preludes and a couple 240's, said that it all ran and sounded great but since it has nearly 140k miles I should replace the timing belt since if that goes i'm basically SOL, i have a 30k mile warrenty but that doesn't cover the timing belt. Also my father thought he heard a grinding noise, so he thought the wheel bearings were going...

So I took it to the shop this morning at about 10 am. This body shop has worked on all of our cars and we haven't been screwed by them yet (imagine the commercial "I've got three of my best guys on it right now").

Right now the left and right front wheel bearings have been replaced, normal right? So the car will make less noise then right? and drive better correct? We've never replaced those in any car before.

Timing belt - should I really splurg for an OEM timing belt or go with another substitute, the shop will warrenty their work so I don't believe they'd sell me something that'd fall apart.

Also while checking out the engine they found that the water pump was leaking so they're installing a new one.

Normal abnormal?, if I were as experienced as some of you would this be the right course? Are these just symptoms of a larger problem?

Once I get it back tomorrow i'll break out my canon G1 digital camera and take a lot of pictures

 

yeah defenitely get the water pump/timing pump done. u usaully do those two together. after u do that the car should run like new

 

get a valve adjustment as well