hi everyone, I bought the 99 toyota camry in 2004, and it was running smooth till a year later where I had to replace the vapor pressure sensor at the dealer. However, starting in May this year, the maintenance signal kept showing up, and i ended up brought it to a body shop and...
5/15 : replace the vapor pressure sensor (again!!)7/6 : in late June, the signal light was on, and did a fuel induction service (a 3 part induction cleaner)
7/24 : a day later, the light was on again, the shop people found a leak in the evaporative emission ctrl canister and installed a hoses recommended by toyota and also an O-ring on the air inlet port on the canister8/1 : brought it to the dealer service center and they said something wrong with fuel cap and the charcoal cannister was broken.
8/4 : the guy in the body shop said the fuel cap is totally fine but he did replace the charcoal cannister for me8/10 : after i picked up the car and drove for less than 20 miles, the maintenance signal was again, on, brought it back to the body shop and they turn it off for me.
8/11: someone did a hit and run on the car, and the signal was ON9/7 : when i picked up my car and drove for less than 30 miles, the signal was ON again.
today: i took the car back to the repain shop yesterday and they reset the computer, however, when i drove to work today, it was ON again!!
although the dates are kinda spread apart, but i promise, that signal light came back on the next day i picked up my car!! even the guy from the body shop told me people from other body shops had no clues what's going on, ( it's a business center with several body shops) they did everything the computer said and the car should have no problems at all.
i really have no idea what to do now, i've spend almost $1500 on it within these months, and i also don't know should i bring it back to the dealer and trust their service anymore since they are famous on "ripping off" their customers and as i mentioned above, the fuel cap is good in shape while they said something was wrong with it.
is there anyone know what's going on with my car and what should i do??? getting a trade-in or another car is currently not possible since i just graduate from college.
THANKS!!!!