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| 1999 Honda Passport EX 3.2L Drivers Door VIN: 4S6CM58W1X I have this vehicle with a keyless remote that will unlock the door and only the drivers door. It will not unlock the others. You hear the chirps but no action. Also I have noticed that the drivers window does not go up and down with the switch but does make a... |
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| 1994 Infiniti J30 3.0L Hesitation VIN: JNKAY21DOR The camshaft sensor has been tampered with and car is sluggish off idle.Mitchell and Alldata have no listing on how to adjust.I faxed Alldata for information and was told there was nothing listed in factory manual.I looked at past fixes and found a fix from Er... |
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| 1994 Mazda 626 DX 2.0L cooling fan I am having a problem with the cooling fans cycling at the wrong temp.and was hoping someone out there would be familiar with this circuit.a new cts from mazda has 53k ohms@60 deg.f.Napa's cts is 50k. At operating temp.it has 3.6k ohms.using a resistor box I c... |
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| 1997 Mazda Protege DX 1.5L Poor Idle Quality, MIL Lamp on VIN: JM1BC141XV this vehicle came to my shop with the check engine lite on.It had code P0421 cat converter warm up bank 1 S1.The lower cat and both O2 sensors were replaced.After driving about 15 miles the engine runs rough for a split second and the check engine light comes ... Trouble codes: P0421 (cat converter warm up bank 1 S1) |
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| 1992 Mitsubishi 3000GT SL 3.0L ride control VIN: JA3XD64B7N After replacing the struts we had a flashing ride control light, I found a broken wire in on of the harness. I replaced the harness and all looked ok. The customer is complaining about the light flashing at times and the ride control to hard. I have read a pri... |
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| 1994 Mitsubishi Galant ES 2.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, MIL Lamp on VIN: 4A3AJ56G4R Gravy job with alot of lumps,Anyway this vehicle came in for check engine light,has code 11 O2 not switching,test drove car i noticed alot hesitation and lite surge at cruise and a slight rough idle.Verified O2 is not swithing,you can add propane O2 responds i... Trouble codes: 11 (O2 sensor not switching) |
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| 1992 Nissan D21 2.4L Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out VIN: 1N6SD11Y8N Please see previous box for message. Ed |
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| 1999 Nissan Sentra SE 2.0L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3N1BB41D8X mil on code po301 checked system found egr valve opening causing stumble under load at 1500 rpm setting po301 cyl 1 missfire i have checked or replaced the egr valve bpt valve egr sol checked power and grounds everything ok i am thinking maybe the intake manif... Trouble codes: P0301 |
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| 2000 Nissan Maxima GLE 3.0L climate control VIN: JN1CA31DXY This car has no AC operation. Checked compressor and relays and fuse and refrigerant levels and all are good. Nice and cold pipes when jumping relay. My concern is that the outside, or ambient temp readings, show -22 degrees. True outside temps are around 60 d... |
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| 1999 Subaru Legacy Limited 30th Anniversary 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: 4S3BG6853X this car came in back in sept 03 with both of these codes in it. Customer never complained about a misfire and we never found a misfire. We put in plugs, wires and coil pack all after market. It came back in 10 days later with same code in it and was misfiring... Trouble codes: P0303, P0304 |
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| 1998 Toyota Land Cruiser 4.7L engine VIN: JT3HT05J8W We performed a 90k service on this vehicle including a timing belt replacment. Since then, customer has complained about excessive intake noise on hard accel, and a loss of power and fuel mileage, especially in the mountains. Tech replaced plugs and fuel filte... |
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Fixes & Summaries for Asian
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| 1991 Honda Accord LX 2.2L wiper hitting VIN: 1HGCB7657M Thank you for all the replies --some were not so flattering-- A lot of people think that no car out there has 24' wiper blades, and if it did it would be wiping half the roof as well. Yes, we hav e worked on hundreds of Hondas and we checked the wiper arm park... |
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| 1999 Honda Accord EX 2.3L MIL Lamp on, P1457 The shorted EVAP bypass solenoid damaged that circuit, requiring replacement of the PCM. Had to bring it to our favorite Honda dealer (the guys we get our parts from have always been great to us and our customers, by the way... this particular customer just ... Trouble codes: P0420 (Cat efficiency), P1457 (EVAP leak canister side). |
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| 1994 Mitsubishi Galant ES 2.4L auto trans VIN: JA3AY26A6V Sold repair as bad (stripped) torque converter. Pulled trans and found converter in good shape. Sold customer used unit. Test drive revealed trans in fail-safe mode. Diagnosed bad TCM, customer unable to fix at this time. Thanks everyone... Jimmy |
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| 1992 Subaru Loyale 1.8L front power seatbelts VIN: JF2AN5287N received 1 reply,did not contain location of seat belt circuit breaker,called subaru ,they called main usa subaru found the location of the circuit breaker is in the r hand b pillar by they right hand seatbelt motor,also the controller is in the left rear side... |
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| 1999 Subaru Legacy L 2.2L Unknown VIN: 453BK425TT Thanks to all that replied. As we suspected the replacement of the viscous coupling in the transfer case took care of the problem. The confirmation by iATN members was very helpful since the local dealer had never had to replace one before. |
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| 1999 Subaru Forester L 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall VIN: JF1SF6350X Here is what I found . when reading the mass-air meter readings on the scan tool (MODIS) the readings would stay consistant . So suspecting either a mass-air meter , map or baro sensor , coolant temp sensor or something along those lines . I wound up getting o... |
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| 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX 2.0L gas tank won't fill VIN: JF1GD29612 The problem was carbon pluging the tank vent system from a damaged canister in the RR Quarter panel. |
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| 1991 Toyota Celica GT 2.2L Charging VIN: JT2ST85N4L Thanks every one for there replys. i had checked the and but a new one in there to make shor that it was not a problem. we found that the wiring harness under there right side of the dash was burnt. we have replaced the harness and the charging system is worki... |
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| 1991 Toyota Land Cruiser 4.0L No Start VIN: JT3FJ8OW8M Thanks for all the good replys. Jeff,Brad and Rod hit the problem. The power feed wire drops in size out of the loom to the relay (I would hate to hazard a guess why) the wire gets extremely hot which could cause the relay to fail. Although I have noticed on s... |
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| 1995 Toyota Tacoma DLX 2.4L Stall VIN: 4TAUN5389S after rechcecking the 'basics' we found that the ditributor had been replaced previously by the owner, and was not in time with crank. Since we reinstalled the distributor in the correct postion the truck idles perfectly. thanks Trouble codes: 0336 (crk sensorcam sensor deviation). |
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