I had never heard of “back fees” before. IMHO they’re nothing but pure robbery.
“Stick 'em up! We’re the state and we can take all your money if we choose!”
Perhaps your “representatives” aren’t representing you?
Update. Me and my friend (diesel mechanic) went and put a battery and some fresh gas in it. Im getting power but she won’t turn over. My fuel pump isnt kicking on. Checked fuse for power and it was getting a spark but fuel pump is whats holding me back right now.
Then you MUST be out of your mind! Your Mom can help? And you have a mechanic friend???
You’re going to be just fine. Ask either, or both to hang with you while you go through the routines and check/fix/replace/repair, etc.,what you can.
Before you begin, I’d highly recommend going online and looking at some of How-To videos they offer as far as the various repairs and whatnots you’ve got ahead of you. YouTube has some really great stuff for folks who’ve never actually gotten “down and dirty” with this type of thing before.
Your Mom sounds like a very cool lady. I wish I could meet her. It’s women like her that help all the rest of us from being scammed and run over by creepy mechanics who are so self-doubting of their abilities they get offended by any woman who just might know as much, or a little more, than they do about cars and the engines that run them. I’ve gotten the whole spectrum of treatments from guys at auto repair shops.
I’ve met the type who enthusiastically wanted to show me all they could, realizing that I had a knack for things ‘mechanical’. Then there were the guys who had such inferiority complexes that they’d actually stand there and argue and scream at me about how I “couldn’t possibly know what’s wrong” with whatever because I wasn’t sporting a pair of …well, you know.
Years ago I had an old Ford Fairmont (circa 1980) that was loosing oil at the valve cover gasket. When I brought in into this one place there was a guy there who actually argued with me for over five straight minutes about what it was and was not before he finally agreed to let me leave the poor old thing under his care to fix. When I came back the next day, a tire that had a slow leak was nearly flat. Because all the guys there now knew that I might know something they didn’t, they made me wait almost a full hour for the car. It had already been fixed but no one would put air in the tire because to do that was considered ‘beneath them’. So I walked in, grabbed the damned air hose and filled the damned thing myself. Needless to say, I never went back there.
That was in the early 1990s and I haven’t gotten treated as badly since, but I never forgot. You might not understand what your Mom went through, but I sure do. Make her proud. Better yet, make yourself proud. Learn what you can and fix what you can. Just do the best you can. I’m not telling you that your lifelong career should be one as a mechanic. But it pays to know a little bit about a lot of things in this world. So now is a really good time to begin. And tell your mother how much you love her in the meantime. She won’t be there forever.
Good luck and let me know if I can help. I can’t possibly think of how I could be any better than she is though.
Talk to ya later.
Exactly what was the purpose of that last post?
We don’t appreciate our mothers enough?
Talking smack about mechanics?
In any case, I felt the general tone was “a little” intense 
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Check for power during cranking at the fuel pump connector. Use the back probe method if that’s possible.
You may want to clarify those statements
Are you saying the engine won’t even crank over . . . ?
If so, your engine may be frozen. Verify if you can even turn it over using a long 1/" drive breaker bar, and the appropriate sized socket
Or are you saying the engine will crank over, but won’t catch?
Exactly how have you verified your fuel pump isn’t working properly? Have you measured power and ground directly at the pump? Have you teed in a fuel pressure gauge? AFAIK, you can remove the rear seat bench easily, and access the fuel pump electrical connectors. That would definitively answer the question, as to whether the fuel pump does in fact have good power and ground. Did the fuel in the tank smell like turpentine? If so, there’s a good chance the fuel pump is toast. Did you wind up draining the tank, or did you just add fresh fuel to whatever was still in the tank?
As for spark, how did you verify good spark? Did you hold a spark plug to ground, as many people do, but which isn’t a complete and accurate test? Or did you use an actual spark tester? If so, was the spark extremely bright blue? It should be. A pathetic orange spark isn’t going to cut it.
The gas tank might be messed up.
Aw. You must need to see an expert mechanic to check your car so that you will know if it is still in good condition. Also, be prepared for the costs if you are willing to take it. If you think the expenses are too big enough, I think I will just go and find some best and new model.
The OP doesn’t even have his licence yet…you could argue for a newer car (like mid 2000s instead of the 99 he has), but the “best new and new model”? Teenage drivers are statistically more likely to crash their cars while they’re learning how to drive…why would you want to throw away money like that? The OP has a mechanic friend, his mom is apparently very handy as well…I like his odds at getting the 99 Camry back on the road. The learning experience in learning how to work on the car is invaluable.
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