My car hates me
Hi so this is my first and only car (2018 Chevy Trax) since getting my license and I honestly don’t know much about cars except for how to check oil, Coolant, tire pressure, and how to change a tire in the event of an emergency. This was my parents car before being given to me when my mom upgraded two and a half years ago. When I got it, it had 89k miles on it and as of today it has 137,001 miles. Since being given the car, I’ve had to replace the purge valve, the water pump, and coil pack, and now as of Saturday, the radiator cap. My parents bought this car with only 500 miles on it total (I was there and helped pick it out) back in 2019. Now currently, I am having an overheating issue with the car, a ticking noise coming from the right side of the engine bay (unidentified currently), poor acceleration, my RPM when I first start the car is between 1 and 2 before going down to 1 when last year when I would start the car, it would automatically go down to 1 upon start, and if it is left idling for more than 5 minutes, the rpm will drop down to the half way mark between 1 and 0 as if it was going to die, for about two or three seconds, then go back to normal. Has anyone else had these issues before? Is this normal? Please help a girl out 😭
Edit to add; Everytime I mention an issue with the car to my dad, he gets mad and tries to convince me that it’s in my head, and he just doesn’t believe me because he hasn’t seen the issues first hand. When I first got the car and I had mentioned it acting funny, he said that I was being paranoid and then not even a week later I ended up stranded on the side of the road in the middle of 100 degree weather during the summertime because the ignition coil went out.