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| 1999 Acura Integra LS 1.8L Excessive Emissions if any one can help me with this i would appreciate it. got this car that fails emissions on the ASM 15/25 test. the part that i cant figure is it runs good and blows near zeros on the dyno with little load. when loaded on the test it fails. tested o2 sensors ... |
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| 1989 Buick LeSabre Custom 3.8L No Start VIN: 1G4HP54C7K hello out there-i need some advice on this one-this vehicle has been in our shop for over two months-we look at it when were bored-when you crank it over it sounds like its out of time-it backfires-kicks back on the starter-pops thru the intake-if you floor th... |
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| 1986 Chevrolet Corvette 5.7L Left Front Caliper VIN: 1G1YY0788G Trying to solve a sticking/hanging LF brake caliper. I know whats going on in that we can open the bleeder and caliper releases. Master cylinder and brake hoses good. Caliper pistons and slides operating freely. To our knowledge this system offers no codes an... |
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| 1988 Chevrolet K2500 Cheyenne 5.7L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1GCFK24K1J Help please! I'm having a problem with this pickup. It's running lean and I'm not sure where to go from here. Spraying carb cleaner into the throttle body at idle or at higher RPM's smooths things out and it sounds better. The fuel pressure is 12 psi at idle, ... Trouble codes: 44 (System lean) |
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| 1994 Chevrolet K1500 5.7L Front Differential VIN: 2GTEK19K8R This vehicle has a manual shift Transfer Case to engage the 4 wheel drive. While shifter is in 2 wheel drive. After 3 or 4 traffic stops. While accelerating at low speeds, It sounds like 4 wheel drive is trying to engage. Gears are grinding in the front diff ... |
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| 1995 Chevrolet Astro CL 4.3L Poor Idle Quality, Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1GNDM19W3S The problem is that it runs rich all the time. When I plug off the pcv valve then my o2 starts reading. Until I do this the mv are 850 or higher. I have tied a new pcv valve also and this did not change anything. Trouble codes: 45 (Rich exhaust) |
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| 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Z34 3.4L Mechanical VIN: 2G1WX12X6T This car came in for a no start. Cranked engine over and sounded like timing chain or belt out. Didnt know this one has a belt and a chain till I did some looking in manual. Checked compression on front three cylinders and got 30, 30, and 80. Read in the archi... |
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| 1998 Chevrolet Tracker 1.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2CNBE1868W I need some help, came in with a cel, egr system malfunction. I have vac. at the egr valve and the ports are clean 100%. this has a egr vac. solenoid, vac. diag. solenoid, and a btv. at the diag solenoid it tees off and goes to the map sensor. what does this d... Trouble codes: 400 (Egr system malfunction) |
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| 1999 Dodge Intrepid 2.7L Cuts out VIN: 2B3HD46R8X Hi all, This car came in with a no run situation. found all plugs fouled and several missing relays/fuses. Replaced plugs and all missing parts and car starts but has severe skip. Scan car and scanner shows crk signal dropping out. Labscope crank and cam sign... |
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| 1994 Ford F-150 XL 5.0L Hesitation, Surge, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTEX15N3R Customer has spent over $ 1500.00 at dealer and still no fix. Now it is my turn. Engine runs well, no miss or drivability problem until customer was hooking up a trailer and hooked up the light plug and noticed a miss. When you drive and tip in the throttle th... Trouble codes: 172 (411 -), 411 (412 -), 412 (testing and results) |
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| 1997 Ford f800 5.9L backup electric motor running intermittently VIN: 1FDNF80C4V Basicly this system uses a hysdralic booster for brakes with a electic motor mounted on it. If there is a loss of hydralic pressure while driving or if brakes are required with engine off the eletric motor is activated. The brakes have there own belt driven pu... |
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| 1997 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer 5.0L tortion bars/eng mounts VIN: 1FMDU35P8V need help!!! the noise is on accel. from a stop. it is very load. we have checked the suspention, motor mounts trany mounts, frame crossmembers. the noise can not be duplicated on the rack. it can be duplicated on a power stall on the ground. the customer went... |
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| 1999 Ford F-250 Super Duty XL 7.3L Flexplate VIN: 1FTNK21FOX How is everyone in iatn world? Fine I hope and making money$ Customer was hoping I could get his truck back to him by tomorrow. Changing out transmission due to broken bellhousing, Well I get the trans out and discover the flexplate broken. Bolts were all tigh... |
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| 2000 Ford Taurus SE 2-Valve 3.0L hard starting VIN: 1FAFP5526Y hello i have a customer who is complaining of car cranking excessively in mornings that it is very cold or cold and wet after starting it will run fine all day ,itwill only do it if it sat for about 8 hours in the above mentioned conditions |
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| 1993 GMC C1500 Suburban 5.7L Drive Belt VIN: 1GKEC16K3P This Surburban keeps eating belts. The only thing that does not look right is the idler pulley. It looks too far in. Everything else looks fine. Checked TSB's and fix database and found two items to consider, belt and alternator mounting. Eliminated belt by us... |
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| 1993 Honda Prelude Si 2.3L Engine VIN: JHMBB2253P I'm putting this Honda back together after having the head serfaced and I cannot find a timing mark on the crank pully. I see a mark on the block but not on the pully. I can put the keyway up but there must be a more precise way to find TDC. Also I was wonderi... |
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| 1997 Lincoln Town Car 4.6L airbag light on VIN: 1LNLM81WXV just purchased vehicle. trying to get it ready for a trip up north. airbag light on and flashes code 52. i am told that you need to clear this particular code with the "clear code method" at the clear code connector. my problem is i'm on vacation and don't hav... |
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| 1995 Nissan Maxima GLE 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: JN1CA21D8S This one looks like a PCM problem but I have rarely done PCM's on Asians. Code will flag after some driving, each time it is cleared. Always has 2440 mv in scan data, whether driving or not. There is 3.4 V. at the pigtail and at the PCM all the time. Disconnec... Trouble codes: P0136 (O-2 open or short B1S2) |
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| 1996 Nissan Altima GLE 2.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1N4BU31D4T removed dash and found screws,loose, resecure,reset light, , remove scanner and start vehicle road test around the block, came on, start, second time , light off now, does anybody know if I might have a bad speedo head,(speedometer is working) since vehicle sp... Trouble codes: P0500 |
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| 1998 Oldsmobile Silhouette Premiere 3.4L steering wheel, body VIN: 1GHDX03E2W please help. this vehicle came in for a vibrating noise when turning the steering wheel to left or right. noise/vibration can be felt throught the entire vehicle and felt in steering wheel. can be duplicated only when turning driving or turning the wheel in pa... |
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| 1999 Pontiac Grand Am SE 2.4L drl VIN: 1G2NE12T2X Hello Group, 1999 Grand Am that customers complaint is SES light is on. I scan the vehicle with a Tech2 and find a B2600 DRL malfunction. I notice right away that the right headlamp is inop. I install a new 9007 bulb. While looking over all of the lights on th... |
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| 1989 Suzuki Sidekick JA 1.3L MIL Lamp on VIN: JS4TA51C9K Mil lamp is on and dtc 41 and 54 are present. I can not find any info on these codes. Mitchell or alldata don't show descriptions for the carb. models. I can find them for fuel injected models, but thats that. Truck runs fine except I believe its running ... Trouble codes: 41 (cannot find dtc description), 54 (cannot find dtc decription) |
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| 1992 Volkswagen Corrado SLC 2.8L power brakes VIN: WVWED45OON hello VW techs after the pressure brake light switch was replaced the power brakes worked fine, but after a couple of weeks, the same problem has returned. Please advice. Thanks in advance |
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| 1996 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L Extended Crank When VIN: 3VWRA81H4Y This vehicle came to us with an extended crank on the first start of the day a few months ago, when the temperture here was still warm. At that time, we replaced the RPM sensor, which was out of specification. As the temperture cooled it came back with the sam... Trouble codes: P0439 (camshaft sensor code) |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 1998 BMW 540i 4.4L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: WBADE632XW Hello Bmw techs We also replaced the #8 ignition coil and clear all codes, after a few weeks customer reported that the car is running great, therefore I will say the problem is fixed. thanks for all the replies Trouble codes: 45 (catalytic converter damaged bank 2), 54 (misfire detection 5), 62 (misfire detection to exhaust), 67 (misfire 7), 75 (damaged catalytic converter), 147 (electric thermostat control). |
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| 1994 Cadillac Seville SLS 4.6L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1G6KY529RU what I beleive is the transmission code for line pressure control solonoid current was stopping the ecm from relearning, although the logic charts did not list that code, but when you read what the pcm does in default it makes sense. trouble shoot code 76, tur... Trouble codes: 55 (tps memory out of range), 80 (no tps learned value). |
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| 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 2.4L Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G1JF12TXW Well , thanks again for all the help from a great bunch of guys. after about 20hours on this car we finally ohmed the injectors , they were all right on target, so we hooked up my motorvac to take a injector drop test and ran it on the machine instead of the c... Trouble codes: P0300. |
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| 1999 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4.3L No start VIN: 1GCEC14W9X To all who responded thanks. The problem was a two fold condition. The fuel pump and an electronic problem. The ignition module that was installed new was faulty, an aftermarket module. Installed new OE module. The VCM was R&R for no fuel gauge. Everything is ... |
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| 1995 Chrysler Concorde 3.5L timing belt VIN: 1C3HD56F3S Thanks to all that replied. We found that #4 cyl. has a leaking head gasket, causing a hydro-lock after hot and when re-started will cause the belt to jump. Customer declined repairs at this time. |
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| 2001 Dodge Intrepid SE 3.2L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2B3HD56J51 thanks to john from utah & brian from pennsylvania. the knocking noise & rough idle on cold start seemed to be the key to problem. john said there was a tsb for this issue. brian's post was similar for valves sticking in guides. we flushed fuel injectors 2 tim... Trouble codes: P0306 (misfire 6 cylinder). |
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| 1995 Ford Taurus SHO 3.2L No Start, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FALP54PXS Car has not been back since last post. and the 3 replies that I recieved would not of helped to fix this one. But thanks for the help anyway. Trouble codes: 212 (no tach no spout), 214 (cid). |
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| 1995 Ford Aerostar XLT 4.0L No Start VIN: 1FMDA31X4S This ended up being a timing chain problem. Thanks to all who replied. |
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| 1997 Ford Taurus GL 3.0L fuel gage / dte VIN: 1FALP5219V This car appeared to be unfixable. Two senders, traced out wires like crazy, three flex fuel modules, traced out wires like crazy, three junkyard clusters that didn't fit because they weren't from a flex fuel car, new gas gauge/DTE module from Ford, NO HELP. C... |
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| 1999 Ford Windstar SE 3.8L digital odemeter,front temp. blend door actuator,b VIN: 2FMZA5240X i recieved 3 replies related to this problem, all related to the a/c compressor wiring under the hood.i found no problems there and have not fixed this vehicle.if i find the fix i will let everyone know. |
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| 1998 GMC Yukon SLE 5.7L auto headlights VIN: 1GKEK13RXX Of the four help replies I recieved only one sent by Kenneth [...] showed that he understood what I was talking about. He had a similar problem with a 99 Yukon and told me to pull the autoheadlamp module and check it for a damaged circuit board. I did and tha... |
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| 2000 GMC Savana 1500 4.3L Rear Wheel Speed Sensor VIN: 1GTEG15W7Y The fix for us was to install another new set of AC Delco rear shoes and new wheel cylinders. We found no other problems anywhere else in the system. |
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| 1999 Honda CR-V EX 2.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: JHLRO1866Y I recieved 10 replies on this and all said check valve adjustment. Customer was supposed to bring car back today but is going away on business for a few weeks. I don't know when I'll get the car back.But the valves will be the first thing I check. Thanks to al... Trouble codes: P0302. |
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| 1991 Mazda Protege DX 1.8L Heater Core VIN: JM1BG2246M Hi Guys and Girls I have finished replacing the heater core. Its a night mare when you cannot see the light. I wan to thank Michael [...] for his input. The only one I recived ... You have to remove the dashboard out completely to get the heater box out. Mic... |
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| 2001 Mazda Tribute ES 3.0L Mechanical VIN: 4F2YU08121 thanks everyone for help---fuel injectors were washing down cylinders causing peoblem---new injectors & fuel regulator & car runs fine--- |
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| 2002 Volkswagen EuroVan GLS 2.8L Shifter VIN: WV2NB47022 Well folks, the owner is away working in another state. Not due back for a while after which time I will share with him the replies I recieved about the shifter. These where observations that this vehicle has a strange lock out proceedure and also that this ov... |
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