luckily for me my dad has a degree in auto. mechan. and worked for chevy for about 20 years. so i call him, let him listen to the noise and tell him exactly whats going on and he says what it probably is. so i go to the shop and repeat word for word and say "so don't think that just because im a 19 year old girl, you can just charge me whatever the hell you want." im a straight up ***** with car salesmen and mechanics because they will take advantage of women assuming we don't know anything. i got 1,000 knocked off the price of my civic because when they guy came out and said the monthly payment i said "thats bull. i know for a fact you can do better than that and ill go somewhere else before ill pay that." and got over $50 every month for the next 6 years knocked off.

maybe you can do this... go to a community college and take an intro. course in auto mechanics... y'know, just to learn the basics. that way the next time this happens you wont be left wondering. and don't let those guys take advantage of you. there is nothing wrong with being a ***** when it comes to thousands of dollars.