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| 1990 Audi 100 2.3L starter lock out VIN: WAUBC5449M the car came with a no start no crank problem checked the starter wire and found it was receiving no signal. Before i continue any further please note that the above info is incorrect, this car is NOT a 3 speed it is an audi 100 5cyl 4 SPEED AUTOMATIC. wich i ... |
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| 1999 BMW 740iL 4.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: WBAGH8337X This car came in 2 weeks ago, we read a secondary air injection fault. We removed the secondary air pump and found it full of water, not working. We replaced the pump and associated valve. Drove car 20 miles, car was fine. Yesterday it came back with the sa... |
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| 2001 BMW 325Ci 2.5L No Start VIN: WBABS33481 I have this BMW in here with a no start problem. Simple enough if it were american iron! But I have conflicting info in regards to the location of the fuel pump relay. Has any one run into this before? I am at a loss. Been in the glove box, under the glove box... |
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| 1988 Lancia Integrale 8v 2000CC Hesitation, Surge VIN: ZLA831AB00 Engine stalls & bucks badly at around 3000rpm while driving & when stationary it sounds as if the engine is running against the rev limiter. No faults found in control unit.At no stage does the engine die out . |
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| 1998 Land Rover Discovery LE 4.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: SALJY12U7W Came in on a hook. Would run a little if you worked the throttle but not stay running. Had codes listed previously. Replace coil pack and wires. Will now start (eventually) and maintain an idle. Goes into serious lean misfire if you try to accelerate at all. R... Trouble codes: P0301 (Misfire Cyl 1), P0306 (Misfire Cyl 2), P1316 (Catalyst damaging event), P1313 (Catalyst damaging excessive emissions) |
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| 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 2.7L oil pressure VIN: 1140601210 The car was towed here with no oil pressure. It has 6 cyl. M110 engine (twin camshaft) with carburator, mechanical fuel pump. Engine runs OK. Before our repairs there was no fuel pressure, so in other shop the electrical pump was installed. They did not bother... |
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| 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300E 3.0L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation VIN: WDBEA30D1H this 300e came to us from another emissions shop. ehu and 02 had been replaced. car seems to have two modes, idle, which is smooth and stable, and wot, which is pig rich. there is a severe hesitation off idle. the airflow pot is good, throttle switch is good, ... |
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| 1998 Mercedes-Benz ML320 3.2L MIL Lamp on VIN: 4JGAB54E9W Customer is seeking to renew his CA registration. Car 1st came in with check engine light on and codes 130 (O2 b1 s1), 170,173 adaption at limit, and 300-303 misfire on 1-3 bank. We replaced the Maf sensor, plugs, fuel filter (an updated unit was available tha... Trouble codes: P0130 (o2 s b1 s1 volt rise insuffecient), P0300 (random misfire), P0301 (misfire 1), P0302 (misfire 2), P0302 (misfire 2), P0135 (02s b1 s1 heater circuit - pending code only) |
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| 2001 Saab 9-3 2.0L No Start, Stall VIN: YS3DD58H7Y car will not start - no injector pulse or spark - does have crank signal to ecm - turn signals will operate but indicaters on dash do not - when turn signal indicater works car will start and run - found common jumper in wiring with ecm and dice module which c... |
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| 1990 Volkswagen Fox 1.8L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: 9BWDA2305L This Fox starts and runs fine when cold. After anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes of driving, the car will cut out very badly and hardly stay running. If it dies, it will restart but continue to run poorly. Scoping the ignition revealed no problems. The fuel pressu... |
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| 1999 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1.9L Poor Acceleration VIN: 3VWSF29M9Y Hello all, I hope you can help me with this TDI. The turbocharger is not delivering any boost and therefore the car has no acceleration. I replaced the wastegate solenoid valve N75 because it ohmed "open" and clearly was non functional. I also decarboned the i... |
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| 1999 Volkswagen Passat GLS 2.8L ABS module VIN: WVWMD63B7X Hope one of you vw techs can help out here,My problem is when car is cold (under 68 degrees)all is normal, but when car has ran for 5 minutes I have a abs light come on then brakelight starts to blink and then oil warning light blinks and tach goes dead with w... |
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| 2000 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WVWMA23B1Y Hello all, thanks for taking the time to help. Afer retrieving codes (P0411), we found a hole in the adapter that holds the combo valve for the air inj. system onto the back of the head. The valve also was bad. Replaced the parts, reset and tested, code came b... Trouble codes: P0411 |
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| 2000 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1.9L Hesitation VIN: 3VWSF29M4Y vehicle came in for no power warm, scanned and found code 17958 and p1550. replaced vacumme valve on firewall called a converter by vw, a white top 3 port valve. cleared codes, test drove--still no power, rescaned 17964 and p1556 comes up now.. any clues anybo... Trouble codes: P1556 (turbo pressure below min level), 17964 (turbo pressure below min level) |
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| 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo 2.3L oil leak VIN: YV1LW5715S Trying to determine cause of various oil leaks on this car and suspect c5rank ventilation problem. Have oil on top of head under wiring cover and out of what appears to be rear main and seems to have pressure in crankcase. Had read other posts regarding breath... |
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| 1997 Volvo 850 2.4L all gears VIN: YV1LS5557V Hello Volvo Techs: Above vehicle seems to have a failing transmission, but we'd like some feedback before we order a new one. We have replaced several of these, but never one that was shifting normally, but slipping in every gear. It takes a long time to get u... |
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Fixes & Summaries for European
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| 2001 BMW M5 5.0L No Start VIN: AHNDG4MAYH thanks for all that reply, the problem with this car was that the marks on the flywheel where wrong iontalled. thanks a lot. Trouble codes: 130 (02 sensors mixed). |
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| 1999 Jaguar XJ8 L 4.0L compression VIN: SAJHD6049X Success with this one, folks, - it appears to have gotten fixed. T.W.'s procedure was : he drained the oil, [which did smell rather severely contaminated with fuel], left the drain plug out overnight, and refilled it and put on a new filter the following morni... |
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| 1995 Mercedes-Benz E320 3.2L No Start VIN: WDBEA32E9S Received a lot of engine wiring harness problems on this one. Turned out to be a bad power supply wire from the battery to ECM. Hard to find intermittent problems like this, when I checked all power and grounds were good. Wish I had a break out box for this ca... Trouble codes: 115 (Data bus from LH-R missing), R17 (Data Exchange malfunction Between Individual Control Modules). |
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| 1996 Mercedes-Benz E300 3.0L Surge VIN: WDBJF20F6V Some of you recommended replacing vacuum transducers. Unfortunately, the last shop already replaced them. Cleaned The throttle body and checked the operation of the vacuum valves. Problem came back 2 days later. Removed the intake pipe and cleaned sticky reson... |
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| 1999 Saab 9-5 2.3L engine check engine light VIN: YS3EF48EOX The most common problem with over rich fuel mixtures seems to be a leaking fuel pressure regulator, though this was not the case with our car. There were a couple vacuum leaks found, due to faulty hoses, but the correction of these did no good. The ECU remains... |
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| 2002 Volkswagen Jetta GLS 1.8L MIL Lamp on, Hard Shift VIN: 3VWSE69M12 Please read the original message and update. We checked resistence of all the solenoids from the TCM connector. All the solenoids and wiring had good readings. We did not have the exact ohm readings spec. but none were shorted or along way from the other rea... |
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