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| 1999 Buick Century Custom 3.1L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2G4WS52M6X This car came in with the MIL on with cylinder misfire on cylinder #4. Plugs looked good but were original so we changed them along with the wires and swapped an ignition coil. No improvement. Took a static and running compression reading with cylinder #4 slig... Trouble codes: P0304 (Cylinder 4 misfire) |
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| 1991 Chevrolet Camaro RS 5.0L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1G1FP33E7M Greetings, Not familiar with GM products, but I have been struggling to tame this beast and am getting brain lock, on which direction to go. Came in with what felt like a strong misfire, low idle in drive! In Park not too bad, idled at 850. In drive idle down ... |
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| 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 2.4L Steering VIN: 1G1JF12T8X Hi techs,I have a cavalier with a steering problem. The steering has no resistence at all. You can spin it all the way to the stops with just a little jerk of the wheel. It's as if it were not even attached to the rack. This car has varible assist steering. Is... |
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| 2000 Chevrolet Astro 4.3L No Start VIN: 1GNEL19W1Y With wet and damp weather, this van will not start in the am until it warms up( in the shop for 20 minutes or block heater plugged in for 30 minutes ). We first checked for spark at coil and then to each spark plug - it was good (we used st125 spark tester). W... |
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| 2002 Dodge Durango Sport 4.7L No Start VIN: 1B4HR38N72 Another Shop put a motor in this truck and can't get it started. They put a motor 4.7 in out of a 2001. I know that with another Chrysler product I had to change the wheel on the cam shaft for the cam sensor. I do get spark but it comes and goes. Another probl... |
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| 1994 Ford Aspire 1.3L Hesitation, Stall, Misfire VIN: KNJLTO6H0R Hello everyone, I need help on this one vehicle came in because car would not start all the time found it to be a bad starter. In the mean time cust. said car would die when brake was applied to stop? This never happened to me. Cust authorized diagnostics, on ... |
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| 1993 GMC C1500 Sierra 5.7L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1GTEC14K2N injector 1 is the only one firing and not the other. I replaced the ecm and both were ok custemer picked truck up and 2 days later he comes over with the same problem I thought it was a defective ecm so I but anther one and instaled a grownd wire to the ecm af... |
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| 1988 Honda Accord LXi 2.0L alternator or wiring VIN: 1HGCA5645J Greetings all; Have not posted in a while. After thoroughly warming up, the alt stops charging (charge light comes on and I have confirmed system inoperative at these times). I can get the light to go off and system to charge by placing engine under varying am... |
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| 2001 Honda Accord LX 2.3L Air bag system VIN: JHMCG55451 Hello to all I have this Honda with S.R.S. light stays on. I need to find out how I can go about retreiving codes on this. Is there a way this can be done manually? My scanner is not much help as it covers up to '99 models. Is there a reset procedure? It appe... |
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| 1992 Mazda MPV Cargo 3.0L Stall, Misfire VIN: JM3LV523XN Hello everyone, Our shop “received" this MPV in as an off cast from a backyard mechanic that had given up – so far we want to give it back to him. Past history (as we know it) – Engine was rebuilt by a machine shop in town and installed by backyard mechan... |
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| 1998 Mercury Mountaineer 4.0L engine VIN: 4M2ZU54E3W Hello all I have this car with a noise in the front of the engine. It is a rattle/tick that seems to be coming from the bottom at the front of the engine. Does not seem to have any effect on the running/drivibility/performance. Sounds like a chain or tensioner... |
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| 1990 Nissan Maxima GXE 3.0L Shift Lock Solenoid VIN: JN1HJ01P7L I am trying to find the shift lock control module on this vehicle. All Data says it is "behind the right side of the instument panel". Does that mean the area behind the gauges or the area behind the glove box. I have looked in both places with no luck. My dia... |
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| 1990 Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo 3.8L starting disabled VIN: 1G3EV13C6L We replaced digital dash (early design) in this trofe'o customer had no problem with car starting previously, only that guages would not work mostof the time and display would not light, also no heater controls. We sent dash out to rebuilder, when we got it ba... |
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| 1994 Pontiac Bonneville SE 3.8L Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: 1G2HZ52L5R Hello everyone, This Bonneville came to us as a no start, but cust also complained oflow power and stall. Checked for codes, spark, and fuel. Replaced cam sensor and started car. Idle is smooth, and low throttle rev is ok. Over two grand though, it starts to m... Trouble codes: 1571 (traction control input out of range), 1361 (EST line not toggling), 341 (intermittant cam signal) |
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| 1986 Toyota Supra 3.0L blown efi fuse VIN: JT2MA70L0G this car was running fine but when the engine run more or less an hour EFI 15amps and 30amps AM2 fuse blow and the main relay was too hot. and one thing i observe is it'll stall on idle when it's cold so i change iac, and still doing the same thing.I follow wi... |
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| 1992 Toyota Camry LE 2.2L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Stall VIN: 4T1SK12E3N Hello tech's this car start and stall very quickly, it have a bad idle and does like dieseling when i try to accelerate and stalls, a very few times it run perfect but when i try to deaccel below 2000 rpm it does like dieseling and stall, when is running if I ... |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 1993 Audi 90 S 2.8L No Start, Cuts out VIN: WAUBJ58C5P hello again We ordered the special cam setting bar and re checked belt timming according to all-data mitchell and volkswagen manual checked 2 different sources as suggested. but soon after the starting problem reared it's ugly head the starter motor wire betwe... |
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| 1982 Buick Electra Park Avenue 5.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G4AW69Y7C Hello to everyone. Thanks go out to the 14 of my fellow laborers in this field who tried to help me with this problem. Didn't fix vehicle, but did find several other problems thanks to the replies I recieved. Just for informational purposes the problem was onl... Trouble codes: 24 (Vehicle Speed Sensor Problem). |
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| 1997 Chevrolet C1500 Cheyenne 5.7L blower motor op. VIN: 2GCEC19R4V hi guys, thanks for all the great info ,especially,bryan,john ,bill [...] and gcs , it turns out after checking voltage drop accross ignition switch and wiggling the wires it was a no brainer the switch was the culprit thanks mike jo... |
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| 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L oil pressure VIN: 1G1JC5243W Thanks for your replies. One of the oil lights stays out with 40wt. oil in crankcase, the other one is still on. I have learned that the OE oil light switch comes on at 5.5psi and that there is no superceded part # to replace this. I will be removing oil p... |
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| 2000 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS 3.8L program VIN: 2G1WX12K1Y Thanks to Aran,Eric,& Tom all said tech2 is needed to program transmitter |
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| 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4.8L MIL Lamp on, No Communication VIN: 1GCEC19V51 I Want to thank all you Techs for taking the time to answer my question. Dave, Doug and Paul all had the right Idea on this one. I want to warn all you techs out there with the NEW Modis from Snap on. Mine just came from the shop 2 weeks ago being repaired. I ... |
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| 1996 Ford Windstar GL 3.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: 2FMDA5145T thanks to all who replied. replaced clips on rods and rear vacuum diaphram (seemed slower to open and close than the front one)return to perform repair 03/04/04 and i spoke to him 03/06/04 - no ses light or driveability problems yet!. Trouble codes: 1537 (indicates imrc plates are stuck open), 1538 (indicates imrc plates are stuck open). |
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| 1997 Ford Expedition XLT 4.6L MIL Lamp on thanks to all who wrote back sorry it took so long to reply i pulled the throttle body off and yes the egr passage was blocked solid cleaned it out completly and all is well i thank you all for this info thanks again mike Trouble codes: P0401. |
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| 1997 Ford F-150 Lariat 4.6L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: 1FTDF18W8V Many thanks to all who replied. the problem was a missing lower intake gasket, It was leaking internally and not externally.Replaced with new gaskets and seals truck runs like a top. thanks to all John... Trouble codes: P1000 (OBD systems readiness test not complete). |
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| 1999 Ford E-250 Econoline 5.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTPE24L9X The problem was an air leak at the throttle body adapter to intake manifold gasket. Thanks for all the replies. |
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| 2002 Ford Explorer XLS 4.0L Gas tank filler VIN: 1FMDU72E52 We replace gas tank (which is the only way to get the vent valves. That did not fix the problem. We then replaced the filler nozzle. That did the trick! It was not restricted. We did however notice that the filler tube came up higher than needed into the gas c... |
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| 1995 GMC Sonoma SLE 2.2L engine VIN: 1GTCS1940S i want to thank all who replied.although everyone had great suggestions the fix turned out to be something we thought we had checked but somehow overlooked the obvious.it was the exhaust.someone had removed the convertor and installed a pipe in its place.so th... |
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| 1992 Pontiac Bonneville SE 3.8L starter VIN: 1G2HZ52L7N 1. Location of the theft deterrent fuse and starter relay. No answer on the fuse and one reply on the relay 'was high in the dash', which I knew. 2. Allen from Washington suggested the resistor in the key and the associated wiring, which was ok. 3. The interio... |
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| 1993 Pontiac Grand Am SE 2.3L No Start VIN: 1G2NE14D8P I thank all 17 for your help, [...] info was correct, he said to check splice to injectors in wire loom behind master cyilinder. The splice was caroded and lost connection, repaired splice runs good. iATN the best information technition tool. |
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| 2003 Porsche Boxster Roadster 2.7L MIL Lamp on VIN: WPOCA298Z3 It is now 28 days and over 300 miles and the MIL has not turned on, I am confident of the repair. I viewed and stored the pre and post oxygen sensors with an oscilliscope. I replaced all 4 oxygen sensors and viewed and stored the new sensors. Using Jorge Mench... Trouble codes: P2098 (Oxygen sensor ageing delay bank 2). |
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| 2000 Volkswagen Beetle GLS 2.0L Heater core VIN: 3VWCA21CXY Hi group, I did not get a lot of respose on my post. Overall time was around 10 hours. I think this heater core job is just one of those jobs you have to do a few times to get the time dowen. Thanks to all that replied |
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| 2000 Volvo S40 1.9L turn signals VIN: YV1VS2557Y a faulty hazard swith caused the directionals not to function.It suprised me because the hazard lights worked fine.Thanks for the responses.. |
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