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Many thanks to lotsofmagnets, as he walked over the other night and took the car for a little spin... we concluded that it must be either a blockage in the fuel line or the exhaust. He recommended a mechanic to me (recommended by another friend), and I made an appointment this morning--magnets, you didn't tell me that the shop was in GRAFARVOGUR!!! Anyway, I took the bus back and left the car there.
The guy just called and said that he found the problem: it's a bad MAF. So he's going to get a used one ($110 here), and then install it... problem is he has to go pick it up at a junkyard, etc... and that's all part of the labor. So total, the whole cost of replacing this damn thing is going to be $320-$380 (including the part). Seeing as everything here costs 2-3 times as much as the US, I guess it makes sense.
We only bought the car for a couple thousand anyway, and we plan to sell it for the same price... so our costs boil down to repairs and maintenance, which will be about a thousand bucks in the end. All fine and good, for a vehicle that is getting 37 mpg, right? (At $10 a gallon, I'll take it.) If it keeps running until we leave--a few more months--it will be worth it, I hope.
So thanks for all the advice, guys!! In the end, it turned out to be the good ol' MAF.
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