Carbon Monoxide Is Leaking Into My Vehicle

My vehicle is being gassed with carbon monoxide. It started sometime in the middle of the summer and might be getting worse. I am extremely scared of what could happen to me and urge anyone who reads this post to call the F.B.I. headquarters at (202) 324-3000 and tell them to help me.

After first noticing a faint smell of exhaust fumes in my car when I had the air on this summer, I told my parents I thought exhaust was leaking into my vehicle, and I was able to convince them to have my vehicle looked at by Brown's Tire & Auto in Chanhassen, Minnesota, where my dad has brought all of our vehicles for approximately 30 years. After a mechanic examined the vehicle, James, a young man who works at the front desk and is one of my dad's best friends, said the vehicle just needed a new "CO [carbon monoxide] filter." I asked him if he could show me the "CO filter," which I didn't believe was an actual vehicle part, and he became defensive and pointed to the garbage can next to him, where there was a rectangular filter approximately the size of a laptop computer.

The exhaust fumes still leaked into the vehicle, though only when the air was on a setting I frequently needed to use. When my mom was driving the vehicle one day, I asked to show her the problem so she could have the vehicle looked at again, but she yelled at me and said she didn't want me to adjust the air.

On September 21, my mom said she needed to use my vehicle to take our dogs to a dog park because "the back of [her] car [was] about to fall off" and needed to be taken into the mechanic. I didn't take the vehicle for the rest of the day. The next morning, when I was about to drive to a grocery store, I was blasted by air with the strongest scent of exhaust fumes I had noticed yet. I panicked and couldn't turn off the air for approximately 10 seconds, as I tried to figure out what was going on. Since then, my parents are refusing to have the vehicle looked at again because they say, "It has already been looked at." To make matters worse, my vehicle has needed an oil change for over a week, and my parents refuse to have the vehicle looked at and have its oil changed by anyone other than Brown's Tire & Auto—unless I pay for it.

On September 25, after asking my mom to have the vehicle looked at by a different auto shop, my dad overheard me and became angry and yelled that he "already had Brown's redo the entire exhaust system," which is at odds with what James said about only having to replace the "CO filter."

This is not a test. If you are reading this post, please call the F.B.I. headquarters at (202) 324-3000 and tell them to help me.

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