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2000 Honda CR-V EX 2.0L air bags
Hello friends:we have a customer that has a crv and 2 suburu outback wagons,they along with other people use these vehicles to transport kids to and from school,they would like to disconnect the passenger side air bags on these vehicles,they would like to have...
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1996 Kia Sephia GS 1.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: KNAFA1251T
The car can't be smogged. Won't set readiness codes. This code keeps coming up. I have no experience with Kia. Trouble codes: P0404
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1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GS 2.4L Alarm VIN: 4A3AX35G1X
This vehicle was towed in with a broken harmonic balancer and we replaced it along with the timing belt and the battery. Now the customer states the alarm goes off intermittently anytime of the day. The C.O.D.E. is in the radio and I know the customer needs to...
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1993 Nissan 300ZX 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: JNCZ24H5PX
This particular car came into the shop with two problems, one the check engine light is illuminated and the engine has a high idle speed (1400 rpm). After obtaining trouble codes (code 32 EGR Function) and performing diagnostics on the egr system other than re... Trouble codes: 32 (EGR Function)
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1996 Nissan Sentra 1.6L Poor Idle Quality, hard to start VIN: 1N4AB41D2T
hi folks got a sentra here that is hard to start cold it will start and seems like its getting to much egr gas (egr has been unplugged with no change)start up vaccumm is low till it clears up and seems to hover around 10-12 inchs till problem clears in 5-10 se... Trouble codes: P0505
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1999 Nissan Frontier XE 2.4L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1N6DD21S3X
Hello all nissan techs I have a 1999 nissan frontier here with a misfire on cyl #4.The problem only occures between roughly 1500-2200 rpm.With engine under load between 1500-2200 rpm.I removed the vacuum line to the egr valve and skip is gone.I know that I hav... Trouble codes: 0304 (cyl misfire)
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1996 Subaru Impreza L 2.2L Misfire VIN: GC8-037628
Hi all, this is a grey import WRX Sti from japan. When the vehicle is hot and you floor the throttle this baby misses badly. If you watch the boost gauge it immediately drops back to 0.5 bar from the 1.0;1.2 bar it normally runs. It also backfires through the ...
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1996 Toyota CARINA E 1600CC Poor Idle Quality, Misfire
Hi Possible someone has come accross this problem before. Customer came in with the car complaining of a miss intermittently. had car a couple of days but when a miss occoured it disappeared as soon as it came in. narrowed it down to injector number 3 not rece...
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2002 Isuzu Bighorn 3.0L No Start VIN: UBS73GW721
Well this is a strange one, it turns out the oil pick up tube was broken off so the vehicle had no oil pressure. And it uses oil pressure to help activate the injectors.. Got some help from local dealer.
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1991 Mitsubishi Mighty Max 2.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: JA7FL24W4M
hello, i am closing this post. customer is bringing vehicle back in a couple weeks for me. i may repost this ad. one thing i was surprised to see though was to ads for rebuilders in iatn. why. i thought this was a tech network . you know who you are . no rel... Trouble codes: 11 (o2 sensor not switching).
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1987 Nissan Pathfinder SE 3.0L Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out VIN: JN8HD16Y6H
fuel was wicking throug the ICM then in to the injector harness causing cross signal.
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1994 Nissan Sentra SE 1.6L Hesitation, Stall VIN: 5BAYB13124
Firtsly, thanks to all that responded specially Kenneth from Arkansas; Mason from New Zealand; Tim from Minnesota; James and Mark from Illinois; Bill from Ontario and Chris from North Carolina that were right about Maf problem, there was an erractic performanc... Trouble codes: 0012 (Idont know what it means).
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1997 Nissan Altima SE 2.4L Line pressure solenoid circuit VIN: 1N4B431D5V
Hello everyone and thank you to all who offered help. A few suggested that I cleen the grounds which I had already done. One suggested changing the dropping resistor which I had also done already done. To repair this Altima and remember that the transmissi...
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1992 Toyota Pickup DLX 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: JT4VN01D7N
Many replies indicating likely sensor malfunction as well as other related causes. The customer unfortunately would not spend the money to repair it properly, although I won't be surprised if we get to fix in the future. Many thanks to those who tried to be of...
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1996 Toyota Camry DX 2.2L MIL Lamp on VIN: 4T1BG12K9T
I got a lot of great responses, thanks everyone! The problem was a bad VSV - vacuum solenoid valve. The code was a P0401 to update, sorry for not including that.
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