My jetta, broke the downpipe and now its back firing viciously

My taurus, it started leaking transmission fluid and slipping, by the time I got to a parking lot the car wouldnt drive any more, I lost 4 itres of fluid I hope i didnt kill the tranny. I think its just the axle seal thats leaking... I hope.

Lumina APV, i think the head gasket is fucked, it keeps stalling every time I hit the breaks and its over heating, win!

and my fourth car is on the way out, an acura TL, the breaks and suspension are finished, but the car is so comfortable to drive

This leaves me with a matrix

Posted by Nismo My jetta, broke the downpipe and now its back firing viciously My taurus, it started leaking transmission fluid and slipping, by the time I got to a parking lot the car wouldnt drive any more, I lost 4 itres of fluid I hope i didnt kill the tranny. I think its just the axle seal thats leaking... I hope. Lumina APV, i think the head gasket is fucked, it keeps stalling every time I hit the breaks and its over heating, win! and my fourth car is on the way out, an acura TL, the breaks and suspension are finished, but the car is so comfortable to drive This leaves me with a matrix

Just hope you didn't do what my mom did to her 1998 Lumina...she drove it to the post office one afternoon, and almost didn't make it home. She'd had it for about 4 years, wasn't new when she bought it. She paid somewhere around 5K back in 2003 with like 80K miles on it. Makes me sick now, she had the "torch red metallic" color LTZ model with matching red interior, not the dark maroon one you see everywhere. I was poking around in my desk and found the owners manual and sticker.

Anyway, she gets to the post office parking lot, pulls in. The temperature gauge shot up out of nowhere, but it wasn't the cooling system. She shut the car down, got the mail and figured she could nurse it home if it was, since it's only about half a mile. She started the car back up, went to shift into reverse to back out and...no reverse. She managed to make a U turn on the sidewalk and get it home, the gage is still spiking, not into the red, but a lot hotter than it would run normally. Mechanic looked at it the next day, reverse basically shit itself and we had metal fragments in the fluid, so there wasn't much left to that transmission. There was plenty of fluid in it, no real big problems that would have indicated anything coming. Wasn't worth much except to go to the crusher. I really miss that car. Mostly because it'd be an oddity now, with all the maroon ones out there.

Shael