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07 XR AWD in trouble.
After about 15 minutes of driving the other day, my wife's car lit up with oil pressure / service engine soon / Stabilitrak off warnings. The engine started running with reduced power. Then she got a "turn/shut off engine". She pulled over and let the car rest. When restarted she said there was a "rattle" in the engine. Luckily she was near a Buick dealer and pulled in. Codes came back that it was a "cam balance" problem. Tech said that a software upgrade fixes the the problem most of the time. They did that.
I picked the car up on Saturday and didn't even make it a mile before I had the same errors but this time the car powered down like it was an electrical problem. Only this time I was not able to start it again. I had it towed back to the shop. Shop said there is still a cam problem and I probably need shims but the oil pressure problem is something bigger that they won't know until the pull the engine.
What am I looking at here? They want $2,500 to pull the motor and check the oil pump and then said the repairs (depending on the severity) wil be $1,000 to $4,000 more. I feel like there has to be something easier to try before dumping all kind of money into it for troubleshooting.... Any thoughts?
07 XR AWD in trouble.
After about 15 minutes of driving the other day, my wife's car lit up with oil pressure / service engine soon / Stabilitrak off warnings. The engine started running with reduced power. Then she got a "turn/shut off engine". She pulled over and let the car rest. When restarted she said there was a "rattle" in the engine. Luckily she was near a Buick dealer and pulled in. Codes came back that it was a "cam balance" problem. Tech said that a software upgrade fixes the the problem most of the time. They did that.
I picked the car up on Saturday and didn't even make it a mile before I had the same errors but this time the car powered down like it was an electrical problem. Only this time I was not able to start it again. I had it towed back to the shop. Shop said there is still a cam problem and I probably need shims but the oil pressure problem is something bigger that they won't know until the pull the engine.
What am I looking at here? They want $2,500 to pull the motor and check the oil pump and then said the repairs (depending on the severity) wil be $1,000 to $4,000 more. I feel like there has to be something easier to try before dumping all kind of money into it for troubleshooting.... Any thoughts?