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I've owned my car all of a month, had a coolant leak, then had to replace the spark plugs, and the manual trans fluid, and now the car wants more. Today on to lunch break, she popped the check engine light on, and my 2012, 1.4 Turbo, stayed on my mind all day at work. It ran well enough, and I got it home, scanned it, and found P0171 for lean fuel system. I found, using my scan tool's live data, that the long term fuel trim was running a +32%, so I popped the hood, and I can clearly hear a vacuum leak towards the back of the engine, around the intake manifold.
I'm still in powertrain warranty until the 23rd, and 101,000 or so miles, so I'm going to take it to the dealership and have them fix it. At this point, though. I've had an issue a week with this car, and on the assumption that the pattern will continue, I've hit this point where I want to tell the dealer I want them to buy it back. 1 month of ownership, and 2 warranty repairs, and having to do a tune up and manual transmission service is... Safe to say, cause to believe it'll be a money pit, and that's just not acceptable. My Saturn SC2 never caused me such trouble. Am I just having a serious run of bad luck, and it'll taper off? Or should I expect this to be an uphill battle?
I'm still in powertrain warranty until the 23rd, and 101,000 or so miles, so I'm going to take it to the dealership and have them fix it. At this point, though. I've had an issue a week with this car, and on the assumption that the pattern will continue, I've hit this point where I want to tell the dealer I want them to buy it back. 1 month of ownership, and 2 warranty repairs, and having to do a tune up and manual transmission service is... Safe to say, cause to believe it'll be a money pit, and that's just not acceptable. My Saturn SC2 never caused me such trouble. Am I just having a serious run of bad luck, and it'll taper off? Or should I expect this to be an uphill battle?