oooooh kay haha thank you for your patience with my questions. I can't do any of this myself,and don't know anyone who can. My car needs a lift as it's too low for anyone to fit under. And honestly it's super aparent that the owner before me took ZERO care of it before I got it, as it's only 6 years old and everything is destroyed under the hood. SIGH.

I'm going to go to a different mechanic on Monday, but I'm gonna call around first this time.

I'm honestly starting to think that this may have been done to the car as this problem happened the first time immediately after an oil change at a new place... but who knows, I'm not going to go around accusing them.