LostPrincess

Honesty is always the best policy... Thank you...

If the rings lose tension, would that lead to a complete engine rebuild?

NEW DEVELOPMENT! I took my car for a spin (three tries to start it), it had no guts reversing up my driveway (has a gradual incline), drove around my neighbourhood for maybe 5 minutes, the temperature rose from half (normal) til it was over the "H" in less than five seconds. Coasted it home in Neutral, parked it, opened the bonnet, black smoke everywhere.. We got a proper light on it and there's oil in my cooling system but no water or coolant in my radiator, even though I filled it yesterday. There's also oil in two of the four spark plug tubes. You can't see the spark plug in the tube closest to the timing belt (drivers side) and it looks like oil has overflowed from that tube. AND there's water in the oil thing, I pulled the dipstick and the oil is that diluted it ran straight off. We're thinking head gasket, could this be correct? **EDIT** Thankyou to everyone who's giving me advice and trying to help, it really does mean a lot to me. I greatly, GREATLY appreciate it. <3

Would that cause the 2000rpm idle? And all the oil to disappear and explode all over my engine? And I'm calling all my friends that know about cars or work with cars, I can't afford to take it to a mechanic, I'm a single Mum of two under the age of two, all my money goes on bills, groceries and the things they need... Otherwise I wouldn't hesitate. Thankyou for helping me though.. Appreciate it.

Yeah, oil cap was on tight, cooling system was bled recently. It didn't overheat or anything, just.. died. However, when you turn the car off, the overflow bottle sounds like it's boiling but it has anti-freeze/anti-boil coolant in the system... Is my car royally f*cked? :sob:

Hi all. My awesome little rolla is having trouble again... :( Car: 1993 Toyota Corolla CSI Limited Hatch -- 4-AFE EFI engine. So today, we were driving along the Great Western when my car started making a "clicky" noise and smelling really weird, then started losing power. About 5km up, we made a turn off the highway and my car completely died, and there was smoke coming from the engine. Also when we opened the bonnet there was oil all over the engine, and there was no oil in my car anymore when yesterday it was full. There is no discernable leak whatsoever. We've put oil in it, and eventually it started and we got it home (took about 15 tries), and now it's idling at 2000rpm... Does anyone have any ideas as to what's causing that to happen?

Alright I'll do that first thing in the morning. Thanks heaps! :)

No smoke and the water pump was replaced near on two weeks ago...

Hey. I was just wondering if anyone else has any ideas on why my car would be overheating? Car: 1993 Toyota Corolla CSI Limited. It overheats in about 5 minutes doing 60km/h. And the overflow spurts the coolant and water everywhere... I know it's not the thermostat and the radiator and hoses aren't leaking any coolant or water. Thanks.

Hey everyone, thanks for the help! My little rolla has a working CD/mp3 player now! I was up all night trying to do it and following everyone's advice, and in the end, I took it to my friends Dad (who's an electrician) who said I'd done EVERYTHING correctly, except that one wire had to be spliced into the continuous power wire which connects to the one from the battery. I'm leaving all that electrical stuff to the professionals now... Thanks again for all your help guys, I really appreciate it. :)

So I'm sitting in my Corolla trying to install a new radio/CD player thing and the wire colours don't match up. I've tried Google-ing for help and the colours on the charts that came up don't match either! I was wondering if anyone could help me?.. Thanks. Car: 1993 Toyota Corolla CSI Limited Radio: Kenwood MOSFET 50WX4 CD player. Wires From Car: light green light green/pink stripe dark purple dark purple/white stripe yellow yellow/white stripe white/black stripe dark green/red stripe blue/yellow stripe Wires from Radio: red black grey grey/black stripe white white/black stripe green green/black stripe purple purple/black stripe blue/white stripe brown (P.S. The CD player came out of my friends smashed Charade so I have no manual or instructions or anything.)