It's cold out man.  I don't know if I'd chance it.  It's still cold up here man, you don't want to put water in there and have it freeze.  You'll over heat!  Not to mention if the ice expands, you'll have to replace all your hoses and crap.  I'd pour water in it, let the car run, and see if you can find where it's spraying out.  Hopefully it's just a hose near the water pump.  But if it's the water pump that's crappy.  But when it comes to actually driving it around, I'd stick with antifreeze.

Crap, they're raping you on that.  I can't believe they had the balls to charge you that much.  Timing is really the only thing that would've been a pain.  You could've boosted your car for that!

Yeah I forgot that this was posted in the six.  The four is easier and cheaper.....

How's the fluid in it?  I'd take it back in and have them look at it.  Tell them that it didn't do it before, and it's doing it now.

NO FU*KING WAY!!!!!! I was driving back from school tonite and turned the radio off to listen for that whine. It's really noticable in the 600-1,000 rpm range and gets louder with rpms especially when there's that little blip from the 2-1 downshift when stoping for a light. But I hear it faintly when crusing too.

AND there's a skritchy buzzy noise coming from the belt area. It must be a belt rub but I've never heard one like this. If anyone knows of Incubus's new cd the sound you hear at the very begining of the first song, "manglomaniac" it sounds exactly like that  If you don't know that song, download it just to hear that noise. Maybe it's a loose bolt too?

AND either I'm going insane or my exhaust now sounds different. More of a blah low tone like this one kid's p.o.s. Cutlass I see that has a performance muffler on it. Is it even possible that they did something that would change the exhaust note?!?! If the timing was off I'd be throwing a cel so it can't be that.

I'm furious, and have homework up to my arse, and I'm sooo ready to break right now! I'm gonna have to find time to take it back in and insist that a mechanic ride along with me even tho they told me they don't like to do that for liability reasons

Ideas anyone? Please ask others too. I need some assistance!

Well I drove around today with the window down (dispite the cold) the new exhaust note does sound like a leak in the system somewhere. The hard part is finding it. IMO it doesn't sound that awful tho. Kinda like if you've heard a hopped up disel  but that's not what I paid for.

I think I'm gonna call that shop back and tell them about the problems I've been having after their repair job. If they say they'll look at it then I'll see what they have to say about them covering the cost saying as these problems occured only after I went to their shop. They'll probably say something like they can't be sure it was their fault thus I'm still responsible for the cost. If that happens I'll go to another mechanic but I'll still have to pay for the repairs then!

Thanks for reminding me. My horn has been completely shot since fall! I never use it anyways but it's and important safety and piss-off-other-drivers tool