Hello all, My roomate's 98 cobra has been collecting dust on our driveway for the last year.
He drives it like he stole it, so it's understandable that after time, something will break. He started to notice upper-RPM power loss, so he took it to the dealer. Apparently he used a batch of bad gas that pretty much toasted all of his engine's components, and they replaced the engine under warrantee.
And again.
And again.
The dealer checked the fuel filter, fuel pump, injectors, etc., and after dumping tons of money into "let's try this, let's try that" to attempt to fix it, it's still not running right.
As a matter of fact, it won't even start now.
The last thing the dealer tried to charge us for was new plug wires. We laughed in their faces and took the car home.
We finally gave in to curiosity and put on a set of OEM wires, and no go. (duh)
We're at our wit's ends here and we can't really think of anything (other than ANOTHER bad engine) that will prevent it from starting and running correctly.
The engine cranks but doesn't turn over. We recently but a set of Accel coil packs and it still didn't help...
What do you think? Lemon? If so, anyone have any luck challenging FoMoCo and getting them to buy the car back?
Mark