hi all,
I've been doing some further thinking about it, and I'm just having some thoughts about how engines work.....
Mechanic #4, the one who did the work, told me that the problem with the bad spark plugs was what was causing the engine to be flooded with gas, which caused the rings to become washed. When I heard that, I wasn't so sure it made sense, because the spark plugs basically just provide the "spark", right?
When I heard that If the sensor tells the computer the engine is the wrong temperature then it gets the wrong amount of gas at startup, I thought that was probably what caused it, not the bad spark plugs.
So mechanic #4 told me he had to clean the gasoline out of the engine (isn't that weird - engines are supposed to have gasoline in them), but that the rings were still ok. But then I looked at the invoice, and they don;t have any such kind of labor work listed on there. All it says is: replace ignition cable set, replace all six spark plugs. That's in addition to the diagnosis. So: what if that is all they did - what if that was what it needed to be able to get it to start again, even though it still doesn't start without problems?
Hmm..maybe a better to put it would be: could the coolant temp sensor cause the engine to become so flooded that it doesn't start? Or could the spark plugs cause that, though I don;t see how? Or was the mechanic just telling me something he thought I would buy?
I'm wondering, because I'm working on formulating my complaint against this guy.
TIA!
PS the car is working gingerly. I am trying to be real easy on it until the part & book arrive.