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1999 BMW 323i 2.5L Cooling Systems
Car came to my shop with engine noise and no power
steering.Checked system powering steering belt sliping due
to water pump pully was about to come off. Replaced water
pump and t-stat. Car can idle for a long time and not show
hot, but driving goes in red and ... |
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1995 Chevrolet Astro 4.3L Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire
van has bad idle at all times. when it gets hot it will
stall,changed Ignition mod, but that did not help. followed
flow chart for the symptoms,ever thing tested good. took
off upper intake to look at spider injector and watch spray
pattern it seem fine. Have ... |
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1997 Chevrolet Lumina 3.1L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on
This is the Lumina car. Since the head gasket and intake
gasket job the engine has a SLIGHT misfire under a slight
load and during decel. Customer first felt misfire in the
50 to 55 mph range under slight load. But I've been able to
duplicate it at very slow s... Trouble codes: P0300 (multiple misfires), P1406 (EGR Pintle Position Circuit Problem). |
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2003 Chevrolet Suburban 5.3L Radio
The radio has a high pitched buzzing noise that gets louder
with higher RPM's. Sounds like ignition interference but
plugs & wires were already replaced. Alternator made no
difference. Can we put a filter inline to stop the noise? I
know these GM radio's have ... |
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2002 Chrysler Town & Country 3.3L caliper
van came in 2 years ago,with brake pedal to floor massive
air in left front cailper, was dry no sighns or leaks
,replaced caliper van wes fine for 2 months.returned with
air again in same caliper,replaced hose and another
caliper,2 weeks later back with air bu... |
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2004 Ford Pickup 5.4L lash adjusters
truck came in with what i thought was noisy adjusters. did
oil pressure check. it was between 30/35 psi. oil level was
about 1 1/2 qts. low. after reading through the fix data
base, i thought the problem might be from the cam phasers.
pulled front cover. found... |
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1997 Infiniti QX4 3.3L rear suspension
went for a test drive and found death wobble when driving
high speeds.felt like rear axle is not in alighnment
.howeverchecked panhard bar for play (all good)checked
upper radius am bushings and found them tobe cracked.so i
replaced them and went for a test dr... |
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2000 Mazda Familia 1.6L Stall
I am a exAmerican Tech tring to scann this Mazda. In
America this car would be a Mazda 323, or a Protoge. I am
in StLucia caribbean and the cars are from Japan and
although its a 2000 model it does not appear to be OBD11 as
I cant find a OBD11 connector to con... |
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2004 Mercedes-Benz CLK320 3.2L cooling fan
since then after three days the fan run full speed as soon
as key is turned on about 20 seconds later checked code it
say short to wire in me for the fan as i understand there
is wire comming from me to module of fan in the fan if no
signal from there the fan ... |
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2002 Nissan Maxima 3.5L No Start, Blows fuse, #59 ecu
My tech made a mistake. He thought this was like earlyer
Maxima's that there is a TSB to add a ground wire to the
ground circut at MAF connector. This was for poor MPG. The
car drove fine, no ses light for 6 miles on the test drive
after all service work. Cust... |
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2003 Nissan Murano 3.5L front left low beam
the front left low beam light is not working; there is
nothing worng with the bulb, we tested the bulb in the
front right low beam 7 its working fine. we checked for
power & ground; its ok, we have it. all the fuses work
properly, there is no melting in the el... |
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2003 Pontiac Montana 3.4L Stall
hi techs this one has me stumped maybe you can steer me in
the right direction. this van has stalling problem that
seems to be time or temp. related . when this van gets to
about 200 degrees or so when comming to a stop it will
stall out doesn't do it all the ... Trouble codes: P0101 (M.A.F.sensor range performance problem). |
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1987 Toyota Supra 3.0L Cooling Systems
hey guys,i have a real thorn in my side.vehicle is daily
driven and for no apparent reason vehicle will blow coolant
through the overflow bottle after vehicle is stopped.does
not happen all the time,vehicle does not run hot or
overheat.i have personally driven... |
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1999 Volkswagen New Beetle 2.0L Full load charging voltage
Car back ~100 miles later on the hook. Battery too dead to
crank, but would operate accessories. Charged battery
again, tested good with both OTC electronic tester and
carbon pile. Alternator charges 13.8v no loads and does
practically nothing at full loads. I... |
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2002 BMW 745Li 4.4L timing cover
thanks to everyone that replied. this job went pretty smoothly. W/o taking the oil pan or heads off i got the timing cover off fairly easy. i pulled the crank seal out and used my bar puller in the hole left behind. i slowly pulled a little then tapped at the ... |
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2005 Chevrolet Tahoe 5.3L No Start
almost all replies stated programming or anti-theft issue. I have a tech 2 and tis went all through that before posting I failed to mention this in my post. I left working the u1000 code and worked on getting engine started. My idea was once engine was running... Trouble codes: u1000. |
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1998 Chrysler Sebring 2.5L Excessive Emissions, No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy
Thanks all of you guys for all of your help. Basically the problem was found as a defective distributor cap when the engine warms up for more of 10 to 15 minutes, the distributor cap stars to shoot sparks. The problem was fixed after the distributor cap was re... |
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2006 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L odometer
I ordered another cluster from Ford. Before I put it in I wiggled the connector to flex the circut board in the fist one I put in & the odometer would either dim or go out. I installed the second one and it was fine. Flexing the circut board made no difference... |
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2006 Honda Civic 2.0L No Power to pump
Bad ECM Thanx for the help. Had no injector pulse was able to pulse injector and test with noid lights and had all systems in proper operation. Car was 4k over warranty on ecm and honda just laughed at some help for the customer. programmed a new ecm and all i... |
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2006 Honda Civic 1.8L noise
thanks again for the help everybody. i turned out to be a vavle train noise. i removed the valve cover and found one of the vtec motion springs broken on cylinder number one. the reason it would only make the noise at idle is because the spring is only used to... |
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2001 Land Rover Discovery 4.0L No Start
Sorry to keep this open for so long, car is fixed but not history yet. This was a strange one, first time I've ever seen it on any car. Most of the responses said crank sensor and the original did have a screwy scope pattern, the new one was text book perfec... |
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2003 Land Rover Discovery 4.6L Parking Pawl
We did as recommended (removed the transfer case and housing that is between the transfer case and the rear of the transmission) and found the transmission case AND the case in-between, were both cracked where the parking pawl and pin mount!!This vehicle had c... |
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2002 Lincoln LS 3.9L a/c air tempature
The system has no tempature blend door. The left & right tempature is controled by a 5 port water control valve to the heater. Set the control head to 60F then there should be no water flow to the heater left and right sides. The control valve should be flowin... |
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2006 Mitsubishi Montero 3.8L transmission
Thanks to everybody, great resource.Jason and Dave were right, it was transmission related. Also Brian was right about the spark plugs and oil from the valve covers.
First i replace the plugs and notice the oil leak witch i didn't fix at that time. Drove agai... |
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2004 Nissan Armada 5.6L No Drive
I am waiting to make sure this one is fixed. In the mean while, It was suggested to check the TFT (trans fluid temp) sensor, the torque converter, transmission cooler, and trans cooler lines for being bent or clogged. We checked all of this, and found no pr... |
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1989 Toyota Tercel 1.5L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Cuts out, Stall, Poor Fuel Economy
When I first pulled the carb off this vehicle to check the float setting I didnt check to see if it was gaslogged. So I pulled it down again and tested the float by setting it in a bowl of gas. After noticing that the float was gaslogged I ordered a new one fr... |
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