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After saving money for 2 months, today I was finally able to leave my car into the car workshop to do the necessary annual maintenance. I have a budget of $200 and a lot of faith that it won't be more expensive than I expected...

Any help you can give will be very helpful.

This is the list of things to do:

Change oil,

oil and gas filters

check the timing belts to see if they are ready to be changed

There is a water leak because the engine runs out of water very quickly, that needs to be checked and fixed

Fix the car's electrical problem

Check the car's horn, which stopped working, I don't know if it's because of the same electrical problem or something else

Several light bulbs need to be changed, they are burned out

Check the condition of the injectors

Change spark plugs if necessary

Check the oil leak that the car has, we have tightened it several times and it continues to leak

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ShiShi21m 10mo ago

Zero chance all that is under 200$ in the USA

Malos10 10mo ago

It would cost like 2000$ in there... I think

My car is a 2006 Fiat, it is a cheap one for maintenance

TheYOLOSpirit 10mo ago

Fix the thing that is more probable to broke your car or can be dangerous and dont pay more than the re-sell value of the car.

That is probably light bulbs, car horn and probably the water leak if you are in a hot area.

Oil leak can be hard to find, you can still check and re add oil every time you gas. (I did that woih my toyota tercel)

What is your electrical problem?

Timing belt can be very costly if it break, because it can break your engine, but you can take a chance and not change it. Normally I think it is changed only once in the lifetime of a car.

Sparkplugs might not need to be changed if your engine is running smoothly.

You could try to run longer on the same oil to save some money and also try to change it yourself. There is planty of videos on YouTube that explains how.

Malos10 10mo ago

Believe me i'm doing all that and i waited as long as i could before doing these fixes

If it gets out of My budget i have to leave things out and them later after i save more money

Nyoro~n 10mo ago

id worry about the cooling system first after changing the oil and the belts are in reasonable shape (check for cracks/signs of stretching), check the hoses going in and out of the radiator, the thermostat, and the water pump first. if nothing seems out of the ordinary and you're still losing coolant. find out if you're leaking coolant into the engine.

to do so check the inside of your oil cap

if theres a cream-like residue in the cap exhaust gases are making its way into your engine -- your car would also be billowing out considerable amount of white smoke. thats probably a repair that you have to leave to a shop ( and certainly more than $200)

id worry about the injectors and spark plugs after ruling out that the cooling system is working

if you're on a budget with time on your hands, im sure you can figure out all those repairs on YouTube 😏 it may seem daunting but you'd be surprised what you can accomplish with just some hand tools and patience

Malos10 10mo ago

Actually My car doesnt have coolant, most Venezuelan use just water in the cooling system

Nyoro~n 10mo ago

water is fine too 🥳 the coolant system is how the engine stays at a consistent temperature, it uses flowing water from a belt-driven water pump to pull heat from the engine into your radiator. in places where the climate gets to freezing temperature or at altitudes enough to change the boiling point of water, coolant is used instead.

generally keeping your cooling system in good shape brings down the complexity of repairs, it's fine to top off water every now and then but if you're always topping off the cooling system that's not great

Malos10 10mo ago 💬 4

After two days, today the car was finally returned to me by the mechanic. Indeed, the cost was higher than the budget I had, a total of $370, and now I have a debt of $170 with my father who helped me pay the excess.

The bill was as follows:

3 liters of oil and filter $30

timing belt and tensioner $50

original spark plug wire set $28

2 tripod rubbers $10

2 internal rubbers $10

1 liter of valvuoline $7

right steering column $13

injector cleaning $10

4 light bulbs $2

body computer repair (electrical problem) $80

general labor (tuning, timing belt, front end and inspection of the entire electrical system) $130

Total $370

I still have to change the car's horn (it's burned out) and have the 4 tires aligned

The good side of all this is that I have the car in optimal conditions for another year of work!

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