[Apologies for the long-winded post.]
Background: 2003 95 Aero 2.3L Turbo Automatic, ESP
Late this past Summer "something" was dripping on my driveway. My local mechanic (not Dealer, as the "local" Dealer is 2.5 hours away) whom I trust with general mechanical issues like wheel balancing and oil changes and whatnot diagnosed an engine oil leak which he fixed. Despite my insistence that he DRIVE the car in order to trace the leak, he simply put it on the lift and ran it for 20 minutes.
So "fixed" I bring it home. There's still a drip, but it's MUCH less than it was. We got some snow, which turned RED. ATF. Sure enough, it was low, so I topped it up.
At about the same time there was a grinding coming from the left-rear which sounded a lot to me like a failing wheel bearing. Mechanic found what he described as a "loose dust shield," which he fixed. Noise is gone. Yay.
Last week my traction control (ESP) system failed. Every time I put the car in gear and move about 3 feet, I hear the "ding" and the ESP light, the brake light, the antilock brake light, and the scary red triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle of it dead center of the speedometer all come on. Sometimes the check engine light comes on, sometimes not. And the speedometer is intermittent.
The code thrown is a 1625. Today I called the Dealer who told me that all this stuff is driven by data from a sensor on the left-rear wheel. I'm hoping that the mechanic loosened something while fixing the "dust shield". He's going to look at it for me tomorrow.
Assuming I'm not that lucky, what's likely really going on here?
Background: 2003 95 Aero 2.3L Turbo Automatic, ESP
Late this past Summer "something" was dripping on my driveway. My local mechanic (not Dealer, as the "local" Dealer is 2.5 hours away) whom I trust with general mechanical issues like wheel balancing and oil changes and whatnot diagnosed an engine oil leak which he fixed. Despite my insistence that he DRIVE the car in order to trace the leak, he simply put it on the lift and ran it for 20 minutes.
So "fixed" I bring it home. There's still a drip, but it's MUCH less than it was. We got some snow, which turned RED. ATF. Sure enough, it was low, so I topped it up.
At about the same time there was a grinding coming from the left-rear which sounded a lot to me like a failing wheel bearing. Mechanic found what he described as a "loose dust shield," which he fixed. Noise is gone. Yay.
Last week my traction control (ESP) system failed. Every time I put the car in gear and move about 3 feet, I hear the "ding" and the ESP light, the brake light, the antilock brake light, and the scary red triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle of it dead center of the speedometer all come on. Sometimes the check engine light comes on, sometimes not. And the speedometer is intermittent.
The code thrown is a 1625. Today I called the Dealer who told me that all this stuff is driven by data from a sensor on the left-rear wheel. I'm hoping that the mechanic loosened something while fixing the "dust shield". He's going to look at it for me tomorrow.
Assuming I'm not that lucky, what's likely really going on here?
