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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for February 16, 2004 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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| 1987 BMW 325 2.7L Excessive Emissions, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy, Hard start hot VIN: WBAAB5402H State of tune and condition of secondary ignition system was quite poor when this car came to us. A complete tune-up was done and secondary ignition components were replaced. The engine ran the same after. The engine coolant temp. sensor was checked and found ... |
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| 2001 BMW Z3 Roadster 2.5L Service VIN: WBACN33431 I would like a little advice. I was reading some posts this morning about synthetic oils and other neglected service. I have this Z3 coming in this week and the customer wants to get back on track with services. He stated, as per the owners manual, the engine ... |
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| 1994 Land Rover Defender 300CID timing belt update 300 T.D.I 1994 no letter, off a defender, needs timing belt update design change and part # as well as what models are affected by this change. Sorry for the lack of info only have eng. Customer tolds us of the update, belt ,tensioner and pulley?? I'm in the d... |
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| 1968 Mercedes-Benz 280 2.8L Excessive Emissions, No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Stall, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1130441020 This vehicle has had diesel fuel put in it. It ran about 5 miles before stalling. It was towed to shop and tank and lines clean out it then ran about twenty minuets before it fowled all the spark plugs. This vehicle was driven home and parked where it set for ... |
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| 1999 Mercedes-Benz SLK230 Kompressor 2.3L whinning VIN: WBDKK47F5X Hello mercedes techs have you ever ram across something like this? please give me a light ,this small baby whine from time to time and it does not last to long i had driven for two days and i just heard twice the first time when i whent to the freeway ,when i ... |
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| 1999 Mercedes-Benz E300 3.0L MIL Lamp on, code 1470 VIN: WDBJF25H8X Hi folks, This car came in a few months ago with this code. We replaced the MAP sensor. It came again with code 100 for a bad MAF, which we replaced. It came again with low power and code 1470- I found that the wastegate and control rod was frozen and would n... Trouble codes: 1470 (Charge pressure control erratic) |
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| 1993 Saab 900 S 2.1L Excessive Emissions Saab Techs, The car was towed into shop with a no start condition. Custoer reported that the car ran fine.The next morning she couldn't start the car. She had filled up tank the night before. Gas smells like gas ... not diesel.Customer heard no noise and no c... |
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| 1994 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L Hesitation, Cuts out VIN: 3VWRZ81H3R hey guy,s how do you pull codes on the 1994 this car has bthe check engine light on i pull of the m.a.f sensore its code with oil i need to know how to pull codes any ideas i thank you now |
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| 1995 Volkswagen Passat GLX 2.8L Electric windows VIN: WVWEE83A9S Hello fellow techs. I was hoping to get confirmation of my educated guess. I believe the module for this window is bad, however they are very pricey. I followed the diagnostic tree set out in All Data, everything test normal. On occasion,"once for me" the pass... |
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| 1996 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 3VWWB81HXT Hello, it's me again, now with another european problem. This VW has P0411. I followed alldata procedure for this code and finally came to checking combi valve.As it says, " open the valve by vacuum pump on Idle and listen to obvious change in noise" This test... Trouble codes: P0411 |
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| 2000 Volkswagen Beetle GLX 1.8L Cooling Systems VIN: 3VWDD21C6Y Hi guys This car has no coolant flow to the heater core. the cooling fans do not come on at all, the check engine light is on with code p0117 and freeze frame shows 264'F. has a small electric coolant pump ( can't find out the purpose of this pump) that seems ... |
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| 1988 Volvo 740 GLE 2.3L Hesitation, BOGS ON ACCERATION VIN: YV1FA8746J After the car is up to temp., sometimes when you accelerate the car bogs down , but will not die.If you turn the car off and restart it,it will run fine.For this reason,the customer does not "THINK" a fuel filter could be the problem.Yet he has no problem thro... |
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| 1999 Volvo S80 T6 2.8L abs and stc light on VIN: D1X10V8636 abs and stc light is on, we used a innova 3100 digital code reader to scan codes, no codes were found. the information center reads abs service required, and stc service required. has anybody found this problem before? and is there any other scan tool that wil... |
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Fixes & Summaries for European
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| 1995 BMW 525i 2.5L Excessive Emissions VIN: WBAHD5321S Thanx to all those who replied...every little bit helps. We've finally gotten this 'Bad Boy' under control and making decent numbers. The intermittenet 'Hick-up' with oxygen sensor code turned out to be bad connection on the car side of the oxygen sensor Bosch... |
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| 1997 Mercedes-Benz C280 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WDBHA28E4V Eleven of you replied and all eleven were correct. The mass air flow sensor fixed this problem. I'd like to thank all of you for your help, you all kick ass. As far as the voltage draw, I think vehicle may have an intermitten draw that I can't duplicate at thi... Trouble codes: P0170, P0130. |
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| 1985 Other European 308 3.0L electric windows VIN: ZFFLA13B00 Wade from Monaco Motors [...])in the Los Angeles area offered to take on the repair, and I'm glad he did. An experienced Ferrari tech, the job still took him a lot longer than he anticipated. I'm happy, the customer is happy, and Wade has made some fri... |
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| 1991 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 3.6L starting VIN: WPOAB2963P recieved lot of positive ideas on this, most suggested the climate control head giving problems. The car just came back in and I am in process of rechecking a long term draw test with ammeter, with control head disconnected. Also suggested to check the outside... |
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| 1998 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1.9L No Start, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3VWRF81H7W well this is what happens when you over look the basics . we replaced the injection pump and the same problem occured . we than drained the fuel and replaced it with new and the car ran great . it was the fuel all along . when youshake the fuel it would create... Trouble codes: P0550. |
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