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2006 Audi A4 2.0L Starting VIN: WAUDF78E26
Hello, long story short, we replaced the engine with another used one from a reputible yard. Got engine and had to install exhaust manifold and turbo, and the flex plate. Got it installed and tried to start before putting whole front end on, radiator is instal...
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1998 BMW 740iL 4.4L No Start, Cuts out, Stall VIN: WBAGJ8329W
This car has an intermittent start and stall problem. The car will intermittently start and stall and go into an extended crank/no start (vehicle has auto crank feature). Upon cycling the key one time, the vehicle will then start right up and continue running....
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2007 BMW 328xi 3.0L No Start
Hey guys, looking for big time BMW techs on his one...ok so the background. The vehicle came in with a burning smell, required a valve cover gasket, no other issues at that time. We replaced the valve cover gasket & when we went to start the car it would crank...
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2011 BMW 535i xDrive 3.0L Key Not Recognized VIN: WBAFU7C59B
This vehicle came in to us the cust stated the car dosen't start when hot. Have to hold key to steering colulm to start. Found the this only happens when the car sits in the sun and the inside of vehicle gets hot. Once inside of the vehicle cools off the key w...
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2002 Mercedes-Benz ML500 5.0L cooling fan VIN: 4JGAB75E42
hope you can help with this one. we have a customer who purchased this vehicle and was having some issues with power steering leaks and oil leaks and a low coolant light we replaced the reservoir and repaired oil and power steering leaks. the customer took veh...
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2006 Porsche Cayman S 3.4L Secondary air / Cylinder 1 VIN: WP0AB29826
As described in the below Test Descriptions I changed/swapped all external cylinder components and nothing has changed in relation to the car misfiring on cylinder 1 when the secondary air is on. This is a first year Cayman and I know there is a thread that st...
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2008 BMW 328i 3.0L No Start VIN: WBAVA37578
First we would like to say thanks to many who are really taking time to read the post and give helps. we fixed the problem by replacing all 6 ignition coils ,we still could not figure out what caused all 6 coils burnt , as one tech suggest that not having goo...
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2003 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG Kompressor 5.5L Consumer battery VIN: WDBSK74F83
Thanks everyone for your input, the module is offline and no errors are present. Dans reply was spot on and fixed the vehicle. Car now draws under 10mA, Thanks again!
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2005 Mercedes-Benz E320 3.2L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality VIN: WDBUF65J45
Talk about the long way around to repair a vehicle. Mark, Dallas, Ricky, and Dusan were correct. I will explain what happened. I posted about the EGR valve removal and checking the tube for clogging last but it was the first thing we did to the car while the c...
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2002 Volkswagen Passat GLX 2.8L Electric windows VIN: WVWRH63BX2
ok first i want to thank every one for the time you took to help me . No my first problem was i felt i had a problem with the comfort control mod, but Alldata did not show it as that or tell me where it was, but you guys did thanks. Now what i found was the mo...
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2004 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L Timing VIN: WVWPD63B24
THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR INPUTS BUT DID FOUND IT WAS A BAD CAMSHAFT'S CHAIN TENSIONER ASY. DID REPLACED A NEW CAMSHAFT CHAIN TENSIONER AND IT'S TURN BOTH CAMSHAFTS NICELY WHEN THE CYLINDER HEAD OFF.
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2009 Volkswagen Eos Komfort 2.0L mechanical top inop VIN: WVWBA71FX9
Thanks to Matthew, he sent me in the right direction. After pulling as much as possible on the main harness on the left side, I used a signal injector and found a break in the harness right at a metal "in harness" connection. #M37 in the wiring diagram. It mad...
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