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1999 Honda Civic 1.6L Poor Idle Quality
have a 99 civic coupe that has a very low idle. sitting at light idle will drop to about 200 rpm. on rare occasions vehicle will stall, but will start back up. any help would be appreciated. no cel light. thanx
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2000 Honda Accord 3.0L lights
Car presents with normal lighting until it sits overnight in the cold. Then after startup, ALL lights pulsate until the vehicle warms up. Alternator has been replaced... Help! If only it was a vette!
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2000 Hyundai Accent 1.5L MIL Lamp on
hey guys, customer brought her car to us with the mil lamp on. the code was p1128. the car has no running issue. i cleared the code, and drove the car, and the light came right back on. the car runs fine. cant find anything that is not out of range or not nor... Trouble codes: P1128 (air fuel controll system).
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1995 Infiniti G20 2.0L engine compression
looking for some help here, this infiniti g20 came into us as a no start condition. the lady said the day before it ran fine, she went home and parked it. the very next day when she went to start the car it would not start. so we checked it out, it has fuel an...
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2002 Infiniti Q45 4.5L abs
Mixed information. abs and slip warning lights on. scan with solis shows code 15- r/f abs solonoid open. alldata shows code 15 to be brake light switch.. dealer does not stock anything and I have no other info. code will not clear. thanks for any help. Jim.
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2008 Infiniti FX35 3.5L Maint. reminder
Greetings all, I had this 2008 Infinity FX35 in for service on Saturday and am trying to reset the maintenance indicator, which is part of the navigation system. Mitchell only goes to 2005 and while the screens look the same, this system is not responding to t...
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2002 Kia Sedona 3.5L Stall
Customer complaint is stall when stopping at the signal. The check engine sign does not come on yet. Idle condition is not so bad. Idle drops to 670rpm. However the idle specification is 600-800 rpm. What should I approach first to save time? I hope to meet th...
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1996 Lexus LS 400 4.0L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on
vehicle also has had injectors rebuilt,radiator replaced,speed cam and crank sensors ok,cam timing on the money reluctor good, installed properly, no scratches and sometimes engine runs perfect...??? fuel pressures ok so please help, keeps setting all 8 miss... Trouble codes: p0100 (maf), p0110 (iat), p0120 (tps H), po300 (cylinder misffire multiple), po301-308 (cylinder missfires).
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1996 Mazda Millenia 2.3L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on
This is my first time posting for help. Thanks in advance. This vehicle's history starts out with the customer purchasing it with known head gasket problems. They payed a "shade tree" mechanic to repair it. After the "repair" the vehicle has had the following ...
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2001 Mazda Millenia 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on
Hello, I am in need of some help with this Mazda Millenia. The problem with this car only occurs when it gets hot. The original complaint was, after driving 15-20 miles the engine would stumble when you accelerated during a curise. Customer stated that problem...
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2002 Nissan Quest 3.3L vcr/radio
vcr/radio will not power on. had vcr looked at. no problem found. had radio looked at and no problem found. when installing movie inside vcr, radio does not switch over to vcr, stays in radio mode.
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1995 Toyota Previa 2.4L MIL Lamp on
The O2 heater codes set with the 2nd ignition cycle. I can monitor the circuit, there is voltage there. THe computer momentarily grounds the wires out. Then the codes set. The dealer said he needs a computer, but a used computer sets the same codes. The heater... Trouble codes: p0141 (Heater circuit bank 2), p0135 (heater circuit bank 1), p0773 (TCC solenoid circuit).
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1996 Toyota Camry 2.2L cruise control
my relatives cruise guit.it has a code 12 for actuator or magnet short or open.testing info is very limited.all tested ok so i traded the actuator and the cruise module with known working pieces from my car.still doesnt work.all fuses and brake switch are also...
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2003 Toyota 4Runner 4.7L solar sensor
Vehicle came in because A/C light was flashing. Ran the self diag and found code 21; solar sensor circuit(passenger side). This vehicle is not equipped with a pass. side sensor. All info I find shows 1 sensor for the "SR5" and 2 for the "Limited". It even has ...
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2005 Toyota Prius 1.5L cannot fill gas tank
This car must be filled very slowly. I currently have the filler neck off the car and all 4 lines are clear. I also have the fuel tank out and all vent lines are clear and the vent valves are open. I removed the vent line from the tank so the tank is open to t...
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2006 Honda Pilot 3.5L MIL Lamp on
FRED FROM MARYLAND GOT ME GOING IT THE RIGHT DIRECTION, HE SAID HE HAD ONE WITH A TPMS AND A FUSE WAS BLOWN, SURE ENOUGH BLOWN FUSE. THAT FIXED ONE LIGHT. WHILE I WAS CHECKING FUSES ANY WAY I CHECKED THEM ALL, FOUND ANOTHER FUSE BLOWN IN LEFT KICK PANEL FUSE B... Trouble codes: p2770 (tcc solinoid valve ckt open), po974 (shift sol valve a open), po966 (at control pres solinoid valve b short p0970 solinoid c shorted), p2649 (vtec sol valve ckt high voltage), p0443 (evap system purge valve system).
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2002 Lexus ES 300 3.0L dynometer
havent had another vehicle with drive by wire come in yet.Will try light pressure on brake pedal next time to see if that helps.thanx again to all those who replied
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2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse 3.0L No Start, Misfire
This was a tough one, might be the toughest I ever faced. I did get some good advise, but forgot who gave it to me, sorry. It turns out the alignment pin on the cam sheared off and the cam and cam gear went out syn, about 5 degrees. This expalins why the car h... Trouble codes: p0300 (random missfire).
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1997 Nissan Altima 2.4L Misfire, MIL Lamp on
Thanks for all the help, I was sure of an EGR problem, which I had too correct after the intake gasket was replaced. The gasket was the main cause of the misfire, the EGR ports were also clogged and started setting a P0400 after the p0304 was taken care of. T... Trouble codes: P0304 (Cyl 4 Misfire).
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2003 Nissan Altima 2.5L heating
Thank you for all that applied. WE vacuumed the cooling system down, lifted the front of the car up in the air about 2ft and ran car for 1 hour and the heat was good. customer left the car for 2 days and we drove it all around and heat was good at idle and dri...
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1999 Subaru Legacy 2.5L loss of power, idle bad
thanks to everyone as all the answers i received as i learn alot of new things from everybody, the final fix was the neutral switch, thank you to everyone, and any time i can help any of you out i will. chris
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1999 Subaru Legacy 2.5L temp gauge
Thank you for all the replies, customer decide [...] pick up vehicle as it condition. We probably can not go any further for dignosic. I talk [...] a subaru master technician, and he think more likely [...] be the cylinder block problem. We will post a repair if custom...
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2000 Subaru Forester 2.5L left front wheel
Well I have this one fixed, very strange though. I had a lot of replies telling me there may have been fix-a-flat or water in a tire, worn suspension components, and power steering rack problems. I experienced water in a tire before I felt it was not that, th...
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2000 Toyota Camry 2.2L Misfire
Thank you to everyone who read and answered. The overwhelming answer was that the -11 denotes a 1.1mm gap. If I understand correctly, since my plugs dont have the -11, they came gapped at .030, which these were gapped to. I opened them to .043, which is 1.1mm,...
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2001 Toyota 4Runner 3.4L 1-2 shift & 2-3 shift
Thank you to everyone that helped with these vehicle. A fellow member, had gone trough the same experience & recommended going to Toyota, so I did, they where very helpful & after a few hours of waiting they provided me with an internal TSB # TC002-06. This TS...
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