Please give me your thoughts on whether I should fix or get rid of my 2002 WRX with 128k. I brought it to the dealership and here's what they told me:
Road test vehicle. Utilize select monitor to diagnose condition, found misfire on #2 and #4 cylinders, removed coil and plugs to perform compression test. Found #2 cylinder at 115 and #4 low at 90. Possible burned valve or damaged piston.
Would need to take engine apart for further diagnosis and estimate.
The mechanic told me that it would cost some where between 2500 - 5000 to repair the issue depending on exactly what needs to be done.
Which do you think is more likely? Should I get another opinion? If not what should i do with the car? Any idea how much the car is worth in its current condition? Note, its doesn't have any dents or anything.
Also I wanted to mention that my car first started throwing the CEL code P304 about a year ago but after spending a fair amount of money trying to fix the issue via replacing the plugs, coil, fuel injector, and motorvac carbonclean service, my mechanic indicated that the compression in the 4th cyl was fine and that the CEL was to be ignored until it got worse or proved to be a false alarm. Over the past couple months the P304 got more frequent until I brought the car in last sat.
Road test vehicle. Utilize select monitor to diagnose condition, found misfire on #2 and #4 cylinders, removed coil and plugs to perform compression test. Found #2 cylinder at 115 and #4 low at 90. Possible burned valve or damaged piston.
Would need to take engine apart for further diagnosis and estimate.
The mechanic told me that it would cost some where between 2500 - 5000 to repair the issue depending on exactly what needs to be done.
Which do you think is more likely? Should I get another opinion? If not what should i do with the car? Any idea how much the car is worth in its current condition? Note, its doesn't have any dents or anything.
Also I wanted to mention that my car first started throwing the CEL code P304 about a year ago but after spending a fair amount of money trying to fix the issue via replacing the plugs, coil, fuel injector, and motorvac carbonclean service, my mechanic indicated that the compression in the 4th cyl was fine and that the CEL was to be ignored until it got worse or proved to be a false alarm. Over the past couple months the P304 got more frequent until I brought the car in last sat.