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| 1988 BMW 735i 3.5L abs module VIN: WBAGB4317J Hi Guys Need your help, this BMW is long time customer, vehicle is well kept and I have done all of the services, vehicle had a front end collision (I was driving) brakes were applied very hard, after vehicle was repaired, when driving at parking lot speeds, p... |
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| 1997 BMW 318ti 1.9L Poor Idle Quality VIN: WBACG7327V came in check engine light on repaired cam sensor code by replacing sensor no codes returned my problem is now and still with cold start below 40 degrees vechile starts hard seems to be flooded have to open throttle plates to get started once started runs poor... Trouble codes: 340 (cam sensor) |
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| 2002 BMW M3 3.2L Mechanical VIN: WB5BL93422 Customer complains that car is very hard to shift, is worse when temperature is below 30 degrees. says it is very notchy even when warmed up in the lower gears but always goes into reverse and 5th and 6th regardless of temperature. any ideas? dealer says it sh... |
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| 1996 Land Rover Range Rover HSE 4.6L eas ride control VIN: SALPV1440T Hello Land Rover techs. Ihave this 1996 HSE 4.6 with electronic Air suspension. The system is inop and I don't know where to begin. The ABS light is on, MIL for engine with pending code P1178. Also when I start vehicle and apply brakes TS and brake light stay ... |
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| 1976 Mercedes-Benz 280S 2.7L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation, Misfire VIN: 1160201205 The car shows an ignition timing spec of 7 deg BTDC at 700 rpm. It will barely run. It pops and has no power. The popping ceases and it runs fairly well with 20 deg BTDC and about 45 deg total advance. There is no indication of any pinging whatsoever. I am con... |
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| 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300E 3.0L Calipers VIN: WDBEA30D7M Car came to our shop for a brake noise and pad light coming in. Inspected brakes found that pads and rotors need replace.Call customer and the okayed the repair pull calipers and replace rotors and pads, When I pushed the pision back on the left side the right... |
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| 1999 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L Oil Warning buzzer/light VIN: WVWNA63B3X Hello all, I have one coming in tomorrow, and need some input as a search through the archives left things still unanswered. Customer stopped here today with a complaint of an oil leak(valve cover gasket) and a very intermittent oil buzzer and light. Upon driv... |
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| 2001 Volkswagen Passat GLX 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WVWBH63B01 We have a VW that at times when first started, the check engine light will come on with a code P1392- bank two camshaft positon sensor. It may take several days for this to happen but no driveability concerns and according to diagnostic procedure, when this pr... Trouble codes: P1392 |
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Fixes & Summaries for European
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| 2000 Audi TT 1.8L No Start VIN: TRUUT28N61 Well, even after my tech was asked if it had gas in the tank, fuel gauge showed 3/4 of a tank, he did not ck it himself but when it jumped up to almost full yesterday only then did he suspect it was realy empty. Put gas in & the engine started & ran. In the up... |
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| 1992 BMW 535i 3.5L Coolong system VIN: WBAHD1318N This vehicle was returned to the customer with the suggestion of a leaking head gasket. We were unable to prove this, however, and were not comfortable in effecting such a repair since we could not guarantee a fix to the customer. Many of the replies suggested... |
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| 2000 BMW X5 4.4i 4.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: WBAFB3346Y Sorry for the delay in posting an update, the car just came back yesterday. The light was on and two codes were pulled. P0170 and P0173. The addition of P0173 was new and the random misfire is now potenially both sides, I rechecked for vacuum leaks, however I ... Trouble codes: P0170 (Fuel trim bank 1). |
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| 1995 Fiat Cinquecento 900CC No Start, Cuts out VIN: ZFA170000. When i wrote this post this Fiat seemed to miss-behave after a period of five to seven minutes but after a longer period of testing i realized it was much more erratic that that. I made the mistake of not checking the air gap between the new crank sensor and t... |
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| 2001 Jaguar XJ8 4.0L pwr windows VIN: SAJFA14C81 Got good response to this post and several variations of the same procedure. Here is what worked, after trying some of the others. 'Try disconnecting battery, wait a minute or so and reconnect with a firm hand. This should reset the door module and every thing... |
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| 1974 Mercedes-Benz 450SLC 4.5L Bellhousing VIN: 1070241201 I got 2 replies to my post. We used the suggestion of Marcus [...] on one plug which was to use an easy out after drilling through the plug. The plug has a plastic piece behind it which we pulled out. The replacement plugs from Mercedes had allen heads on them... |
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| 1995 Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG 3.6L engine VIN: WDBHM36EXS The consensus is that the probelm was either the t-chain tensioner or the intake cam advance. The customer was not interested in persuing the probelm any futher. Thanks anyway!! |
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| 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: WPOAA2999V Reply 1 of 8 From: Skip from Florida Date: 02/18/2004 13:09:01 Haven't heard of this in 1997 models usually 95-96. The valve guides wear and the oil that gets by them carbons up and cloge the passages in the heads. need to do a top end,replace guides maybe... Trouble codes: P0410 (secondary air injection malfunction.......). |
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| 1993 Saab 900 S 2.1L Excessive Emissions Success! The solution, thanks to suggestion from John from Florida, was to replace the EZK box (on left fender in engine compartment. This is a black box opposite ignition module. It is critical to use the same numbered box ( Bosch [...]) as came out of t... |
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| 1997 Volkswagen Golf GL 2.0L shifting VIN: 3VWMA81H6V Hi to all, everyones help was great, they all said to take it to a vw dealer well thats still ware it is and we havent heard anything from them yet.the car has been there for over a week. so im closing this post for now.thanks again to all who helped me. |
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| 2000 Volkswagen Beetle GL 1.8L Airbag removal VIN: JF1SF6352Y Thankyou to all who replied.We removed the air bag today and changed the harness.We used a 6' small phillips. The clips were easy to find using the phillips. Earlier the flat blades that we tried just didn't do the trick. Thanks to everybody again. |
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