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	Help Request	Answers
	1989 Audi 100 2.3L Excessive Emissions, No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: WAUBB0442K A week ago this car was towed in for not running. Fuel pump was not working so we replace the pump and filter, car started fine ran great. Now car is extremely hard to start, fuel pressure is fine and we do have spark. I have replaced the ground wire at the ...	View
	1996 Audi A4 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WAUEA88D5T hey guys i dont have much information on this car i own it and i have a m.i.l light on for bank 2 sensor2 is that the driver side rear sensor 0.2 sensor any help i thank you	View
	1999 Audi A4 2.8L Radiator fan VIN: WAUED28D7X Customer came with a burned radiator fan motor. Motor was replaced with new one from Worldpack. Now as soon as you start car, motor kicks in high gear and stays on. When you turn the key off, radiator fan motor will stay on in low gear for about 10 to 15 minut...	View
	1994 BMW 325i 2.5L ABS Light on VIN: WBACB4327R BMW Gurus please help, car came in with the ABS light on, using the Baum cs2000 retrieved code 17, no power to soleniod valves. I tried to clear the code but it seemed to be a hard fault. I then switched to the data stream field and verified that the wheel sen...	View
	1997 BMW 540i 4.4L convertor VIN: WBADE6328V Hi, By our iScan 2000 from Baum Tools and over 80 miles of driving the TCM never sends a signal to the torque convertor lockup clutch when moving forward at any speed( yeah "any"). It will very (and I mean very intermittant) intermittantly send the lockup sign...	View
	1990 Jaguar XJ6 Sovereign 4.0L steering column VIN: SAJHY174XL Recently the car developed a similar noise to the one it had before, except much louder and higher up in the steering colunm. It is intermittened and occurs at very low speeds with high effort put into the gear box. The noise is quite loud and startling (a gri...	View
	1989 Porsche 911 Turbo Carrera 3.3L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Stall VIN: WPOJB0935K Hi Group: Customer complaint...Car surges when coasting down the hill in the morning...It will also intermittently stall. He also claims the RPM's will climb to about 1800 at idle (Have not been able to duplicate) Control pressure is from 22PSI cold to around...	View
	1993 Volkswagen EuroVan GL 2.5L exhaust valves VIN: WVW-PH0828 Good evening group, I really almost hate to post this question, because it should be a no-brainer... but, I have this Eurovan that came to me apprx. 2000 miles ago that had been over heated. I had to have the head machined (due to warpage) to the minimum th...	View
	2000 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L comfort module VIN: WVWMA23B24 *Part 1* Battery discharges, has draw of 310 milliamp with doors unlocked, 230 milliamp doors locked, security activated even after a period of 20 min. I am to understand that the comfort module does not go into sleep mode unless alarm set, doors locked. D...	View
	2001 Volkswagen Beetle GLS 2.0L ride controll VIN: 3VWCS21C81 took for test drive and foun car pulls left on acel.When decel pulls right	View
	2003 Volkswagen Jetta GLX 2.8L battery This car is a low k car and the battery goes dead after standing for approx. 6 weeks. Does V.W. have a time out or is there a specific system that creates a key off drain? This is a car that I have not seen and am getting info from an apprentice tech.	View
	1991 Volvo 740 2.3L idiot lites VIN: YV1FA8846M this 740 has a strange intermittent problem- when turning the key to position 2, the idiot lites sometimes dont come on- only the od arrow and the seat belt lite come on. All gauges work when this is happening, but the long row of warning lites below the gauge...	View

Fixes & Summaries for European

	Fix/Summary	Answers
	1994 BMW 325is 2.5L Air Bag Light on VIN: WBABF3327R Thanks to all that responded. The problem was an internal short on the Air Bag control Module. As I was informed by Dana [...], the fault was internal, and would require a new Module, which would have to be coded. Thanks again to everyone that responded to my...	3
	1999 Jaguar XJ8 4.0L Hesitation VIN: SAJHX6042X thanks to jason [...], they all said replace the mass air flow sensor and they were correct. that was the first item we checked. the wave form was smooth but the voltage would not rise above 3 volts even on a hard rev. w...	6
	1996 Mercedes-Benz E300 3.0L Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out VIN: WDBJF20F8T yes i have fixed this car thanks to two good gentleman that took their time to help.thank you to rafael [...] from washington and to roger from michigan.you gentleman knew exactly the problem of this mercedes diesel. i removed the runner accross the top of th...	8
	1999 Mercedes-Benz ML320 3.2L transmission oil pan gasket VIN: 4JGAB54E7X Most of the guys were right, the O-rings from the electrical connector were leaking. Thanks a lot to everyone who sent replies.	17
	1996 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.6L dme problem VIN: WPOAA2996T Ok, finally got to the bottom of this one. After driving the car for two days and following both all data and porsche obd 2 procedures for reseting the monitors we were able to only reset the continuous monitors, no non-continuous were ever reset. I was fortun...	7
	1995 Saab 900 SE 2.5L Engine VIN: YS3DF58V8S The problem was a piston that overheated at the skirt, some of the alloy melted, that gave large clearance and the piston was getting slapped. after we took both cyl. heads off it was easy to see that one piston (center on rear bank) had much larger free play....	3
	1994 Volkswagen Golf GL 2.0L thermostat housing VIN: 3VWFA81H5S Turned out to be a defective aftermarket water outlet. After much cussing, I looked under the o-ring and found a little round mark in the o-ring groove (molding flaw?) Put on an oe part and car is fixed. thanks for your help	4
	2000 Volkswagen Passat GLS 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: B8YE230886 Sorry for the delay most of the replies was to replace the cats, after other checks and looking at more TSB my conclusion was the same. So I had the cats sent out for rebuilding, that was part of the delay took over a week to get them back. Second part was to ... Trouble codes: P0431 (Warm Up Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold Bank 2), P0421 (Warm Up Catalyst Efficiency Below Threshold Bank 1).	15
	2002 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1.9L air bag modual VIN: 3VWSP69M02 Hello everyone thanks for your help, apperently you need the dealer scan tool to reprogram the modual, I was using the AST scanner, it is suppose to be able to ? thanks again. Daniel	11
	1991 Volvo 240 2.3L brake lite, rear wiper, etc. VIN: YV1AA8258M Thanx to all who replied. There are wiring harnesses available from Volvo for about $30 each, as well as from many other aftermarket suppliers. The new harnesses use more flexible wire so as not to break so easily. The job went well - much quicker than splicin...	33

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