You're probably getting tired of me whining about my car, but I can't help myself. (Or the car can't help itself.) Heck, you probably get some laughs out of these posts... So anyway, here we go again...
My car has its 17th problem now. (Yes, that would be 17 things that are wrong with the car right now.) This probably won't be enough to give you the information you'll need, but it's worth a shot. It's yet another leak. (I've probably had ten leaks alone with that car.) This fluid kind of has a brownish-transparent color. It's slick. I would say oil except my oil is pretty black right now since it needs changed. It left a nice size stream (Probably at least a foot long stream about an inch and a half wide) of this fluid in the driveway today when I moved it before we went to the store. It didn't seem to me that this fluid had a smell, but then again, maybe that's because I only got a small sampling on my finger. I looked under the car and saw where the fluid was leaking down at, but I don't know for sure where it's coming from. That means I have three fluid leaks right now. The antifreeze, the transmission, and this leak. Maybe it is oil, but it at least is pretty dark on the dipstick and if it is the oil, this will have been the third time it's leaked since I've had the car. (Not quite two years - although it's been in the family for almost ten.) It blew the valve cover gasket twice almost in a row, so we used silicone. After the silicone, why would it start leaking again if it is indeed the oil? I've been getting around fine without oil leaks using the silicone for over a year and a half now. My oil level was past the full mark, but the engine was warm, so I didn't get an accurate measure. I'll check it soon when it's cold. All I can tell you for sure is the leak was sitting under the passenger half of the car in the front.
The antifreeze in the reservoir was about a half an inch above the 'Add' line, but it was not warmed up all the way - the engine was warm, but not at it's normal temperature when it's warmed all the way up.
Before you tell me to get rid of my car (which I know I should), I would like to within a year - if it will make it that long...
Oh well, the car was free when I got it and it's purpose was just to get me by until I could get something better. (At least that was my mom's idea. My dad still says "oh, it's not that bad - we haven't given it a tune up in a while" "it wouldn't cost that much to fix it". This is coming from somebody who hates 4 cylinder engines and always complained about the 2.5 and said that he would never let anyone ever buy a four-cylinder engine again. I don't think he's actually ever considered everything that's wrong with it. There are 4-cylinder engines out there that are pretty reliable, but the 2.5 is not one of them at least with the Celebrity we used to have and this car. After dealing with the lackluster power of this engine, I'd probably get a V6 engine in my next vehicle, although if I feel comfortable with getting a 4-cylinder engine (since most of them do have more power than the 2.5), I'll be getting one. I don't need lots of power even as a teen, but I do want something that has enough power to go up an incline at 65mph without really pushing hard on the gas pedal. On this car, if you spend $900 on it, you're already spending about the amount of its value - considering its condition.) Dad hasn't complained that much about my car after he bought his gas-guzzling Blazer (which he's spent $5000 on it in repairs in the past year and a half) and the gas prices have doubled.
I will now stop rambling.
Thanks.