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Took the car in today after dealing with an annoying problem for quite some time. I searched around online like crazy to see what the widest tire was that I could fit on a stock 18" gxp front wheel and ended up going with a set of 275/35/18 's. Almost as soon as I left the parking lot after having the new tires put on, i was having problems with my brakes.. Every time I would tap my breaks or go to stop, my anti lock brake system would kick in and almost nearly keeping from stopping completely. it scared the sh$# out of me! Once I would hit around 55-60 mph my abs, service brake soon, and traction control lights would all come on and the problem was solved. But ONLY if i get up to this speed will it fix my problem. So i took the car in today and found out that it is most likely the way the pc is tuned because when they took it for a drive, they said that my rear tires were showing about 4 mph faster than the front tires... He also said that my rear tires (nearly brand new) were wearing unevenly and that the insides of the were worn down to almost nothing! most likely an alignment issue which i can handle. But i have no idea how to tackle this issue with the wider front tires keeping me from being able to use my brakes the way their meant to used.
It is not the bearing or the sensors btw, had them all checked out and they are nice and tight.
Problem number 2
The car started over heating, long story short I need a new water pump. I wasn't seeing anything leaking and finally found that it was dripping a bit from the seal and that's why i never had a trace of it leaving the car. Filled up my reservoir and it fixed the problem (for now) but i was told that the pump required a manifold as well to replace and that it would be $800!! No way in hell am i paying that for something this simple. Anyone had any experience with this issue? Also when i brought my car in the shop told me that my throttle positioning sensor was going bad or was off or something and he said he cleaned it up.. that being said, my car now idles at 1100 rpms and is stupid annoying to sit in when its running. its been 6 hours and i already want to go back and wring this guy's neck because it now has an idle speed of about 17 mph!! I cannot stop very well any more at all, between the mix of the anti lock brakes kicking in when they arent supposed to and the car not wanting to stop because the motor is idling so high, i may run into a ton of problems in the future. its scary driving this thing now especially because of the high idle. Could he have messed with the position or something?
Any help would be much appreciated
It is not the bearing or the sensors btw, had them all checked out and they are nice and tight.
Problem number 2
The car started over heating, long story short I need a new water pump. I wasn't seeing anything leaking and finally found that it was dripping a bit from the seal and that's why i never had a trace of it leaving the car. Filled up my reservoir and it fixed the problem (for now) but i was told that the pump required a manifold as well to replace and that it would be $800!! No way in hell am i paying that for something this simple. Anyone had any experience with this issue? Also when i brought my car in the shop told me that my throttle positioning sensor was going bad or was off or something and he said he cleaned it up.. that being said, my car now idles at 1100 rpms and is stupid annoying to sit in when its running. its been 6 hours and i already want to go back and wring this guy's neck because it now has an idle speed of about 17 mph!! I cannot stop very well any more at all, between the mix of the anti lock brakes kicking in when they arent supposed to and the car not wanting to stop because the motor is idling so high, i may run into a ton of problems in the future. its scary driving this thing now especially because of the high idle. Could he have messed with the position or something?
Any help would be much appreciated
and ive already put 1000 miles on these tires. Lets just hope that it can be tuned out. Wont my lights all be on though if I unplug my abs fuse? I hate having my dash lit up like a christmas tree lol.
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