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| 2004 Acura TL 3.2L Driver's door mirror. VIN: 19UUA66264 Driver's mirror doesn't work. If we unplug and plug back in either the mirror switch, or memory module we can adjust the mirror a fraction of an inch before it stops working again. Replacing the mirror switch, and memory module did not help. |
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| 2006 Audi A4 2.0L Poor Fuel Economy VIN: WAUDF78E86 Car came in with a P0170 code. idle adaption is 6.5 % at idle should be under .6. Check oil cap a lot of vacume at oil cap, measured vacume at dip stick reading was barely 1hg. Smoked engine, no leaks, replaced vent valve on valve cover and valve cover still n... Trouble codes: P0171 |
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| 2011 BMW 335d 3.0L Mechanical VIN: WBAPN7C51B This BMW has a squealing noise when cold. I believe it is the engine belts. My question is do we replace just the engine belts? or do we need to replace the belt and tensioner. If so, what is the best / easiest way to replace the tensioner? thanks, Jeff |
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| 1987 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 5.0L fan VIN: 1G1FP21F8H This car has 2 electric cooling fans at radiator, only one is operating. The left fan is operating, the right fan will run if I jumper power and ground directly to fan. Alldata mentions optional auxiliary fan and optional heavy duty fan with little if any desc... |
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| 2001 Chevrolet Blazer LS 4.3L Misfire VIN: 1GNCS13W61 I've been retired now for four years, but once it a while I'll do something for my kids and grandkids. This 2001 Blazer with a 4.3 usually sets [...], it sets P0300 once in a while too, and the misfires happen at idle and low load cruise as determined with... Trouble codes: P0302 (Once in a while throws code P0300) |
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| 2001 Chevrolet Blazer LS 4.3L Misfire VIN: 1GNCS13W61 I just posted this on tech help this morning and decided to add pictures of secondary ignition data and scan data. Since I could not find a way to put these two items up I tried to add a link to the technical discussion forum where I added this information. Ho... Trouble codes: P0302 |
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| 2006 Chevrolet Impala LT 3.5L Misfire VIN: 2G1WT58K96 used car cam in from another shop,they replace plug,s/ po300 found cly 2/4/6 cly start to misfire under load / 60 psi fuel pressure cannot free rev over 3500 rpm, good spark, injector test ok, feels like going in to restricted power mode Trouble codes: P0300 |
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| 2008 Chevrolet Impala LT 3.5L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2G1WT55K98 Cylinder 6 misfires all the time. Dtc set p0306. Fuel trim short -2% long -5%, closed loop, moved injectors around,moved plugs around moved wires around nothing changed. Test spark at #6 with adjustable gap tester and spark will jump 1/2in gap no problem. Leak... Trouble codes: P0306 (Cyl 6 misfire) |
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| 2009 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ 2.4L Cools Then Quits VIN: 1G1ZK57B39 My Problem Is This car Came in With Compressor Bearing Bad Clutch Apart, Replaced compressor With New GM Unit. Flush Lines, Replaced Expansion Valve (Delco Part) Replaced Condenser (Delco Part) Replaced Screen In liquid Line (Delco Part) Evacuate And Recharge ... |
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| 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LTZ 5.3L MIL Lamp on VIN: 3GCRKTE34A Truck is coming back on Monday and need a diagnostic strategy for this issue. Thank you Trouble codes: P069E, P018C |
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| 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser Limited 2.4L Stall, MIL Lamp on, it's a Chrysler... VIN: 3C8FY68814 OK friends, this car is the devil's. here goes: came in with a p1604 (internal fault pcm) hard fault. car ran fine except a MIL on dash. checked pcm powers and grounds and they are good (no voltage drop greater than .5 on powers or grounds). so deemed it a f... Trouble codes: P1604 (Internal fault), P0031 (O2 sensor heater control circuit low b1/s1), P0037 (O2 sensor heater control circuit low b1/s2), P0032 (O2 sensor heater control circuit high b1/s2), P0038 (O2 sensor heater control circuit high b1/s2) |
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| 2004 Dodge Durango Limited 5.7L No Start VIN: 1D4HB58D64 We found no power to fuel pump (ground ok), power ok from the relay, and continuity from the pump and relay to the integrated power module. I see that others have had the same issue in other post. My questions are. 1) Has anyone bypassed the IPM by connecting ... |
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| 1968 Ford Mustang 5.0L Lighting This car is giving me fits. Problem is in the blinker system, turn blinkers on and both left and right blink in the front and dash indicators, rear flash fine. |
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| 1999 GMC Savana 1500 5.7L No Start, Stall VIN: 1GDFG15R1X this gmc has been an excellent van fo all its life till now 1 week ago .. ENG-1 fuse blown replace ok... 5 days later eng-1 fuse blown again replace... now eng-1 fuse blows every start/crank ... visual inspect all ... unplug MAF/crank/ blow fuse... ENG-1 fus... |
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| 2001 Isuzu Rodeo LS 3.2L Timing VIN: 4S2DM58W71 Running hot and blowing coolant out radiator when cranking over. Heads surfaced, valves ground, valves adjusted to specs, cam gears timed by book( one dot on right head intake and exhaust cam to driven gear and two dots the same on left head). Timing marks on ... |
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| 1995 Jaguar XJS 4.0L engine performance VIN: SAJNX2745S Hi, This car came in from another shop where it had a key and ignition coils replaced. Customer says, since then the car cuts out on acceleration and stumbles, sometime stalls at idle. upon road test I experienced this. it was as if you shut the key off for a ... |
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| 1990 Lexus LS400 4.0L e,p.r. VIN: JT8UF11E8L Thank you all for your help. This car was retrofit to 134a 4 years ago with 2 . 0 lbs. of 134a & 7 ounces of ester a/c oil according to the retrofit label. When this car came in the a/c duct temp was warm, The compressor didn't run Because the Freon was very l... |
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| 2001 Mazda B3000 DS 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire VIN: 4F4YR16V01 Truck starts and runs like it has has a misfire for about 30 seconds or a little more.Then runs great.No codes.No fuel smell or coolant smell or smoke coming out of the exhaust.Has to set for 2hrs or more for the problem to happen.Does not seem to be loosing a... |
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| 2004 Mercury Mountaineer 4.6L Poor Idle Quality, MIL Lamp on VIN: 4M2ZU66W34 Truck has a P0506. in KAM and KOEO. Checked for battery voltage on pin one of IAC connector. Had 3.8 volts. Also showed 3.8 on pin 2. Unhooked PCM connector and ohmed circuits and checked for shorted condition. No issue found. KE2 chart calls for battery volts... Trouble codes: P0506 |
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| 2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS 2.4L Tbd VIN: 4A3AC44G85 The AC system stopped blowing cold. I figure there must particulate in the system somewhere which is not allowing refrigerant to circulate. Get good pressure readings but no cold air. cannot figure out why the high pressure side pressure drops to 100psi when t... |
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| 2012 Porsche Cayenne S 4.8L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: WP1AB2A21C good morning every one,first id like to thank every one for helping me out. we don't get alot of cayennes in the shop for driveability concerns,so we dont get to see the multiple random acts of failures on these things,alldata support is very basic and nothing... Trouble codes: P0346, P0068, P0336, P0174, P1023, P053F |
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| 2006 Subaru Outback 2.5i 2.5L Hesitation, low idle VIN: 4S4BP61C86 Customer states that it sometimes backfires and has hesitation from idle with half or more throttle applied. Test drove. Never could get it to backfire. It does lag under half or more throttle from an idle, in gear or out. Does idle low, about 700 rpms in pa... |
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| 2005 Toyota Prius 1.5L Compressor VIN: JTDKB20U35 Evacuate system it had a full charge . Recharged . It will cool in manual mode but not auto. No other codes. |
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| 2010 Volkswagen CC Sport 2.0L compressor VIN: WVWMP7AN4A This car came in with A/C not operating , customer took the car to VW dealer and was told that a/c compressor is bad and needs to be replace, so at the customer request we installed new compressor charged the system and nothing is happening checked the wire to... |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2006 BMW 525xi 3.0L No Start VIN: WBANF33596 We verified cam/crank timing & it was off about 2 teeth on crank. Found the chain tensioner was bad could just push it in with your finger. We replaced all timing components runs good. Lesson learned verify the basics sounded like it had good compression but i... Trouble codes: 2A99, 2A98, 2A9A, 2DEC. |
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| 2003 Honda CR-V EX 2.4L Unknown VIN: JHLRD78863 I want to thank everyone who responded. Because we already had the trans out, Did not see anything wrong with flywheel or torque converter, but we replaced the flywheel,rear main seal and torque converter seal as a percaution. But when putting it all back tog... |
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| 2006 Jeep Wrangler SE 2.4L Will Not Program VIN: 1J4FA29126 I'd like to bill this customer for wasting my time (I mean right NOW) but instead he will pay me over time. On the Monday following the Friday that I'd worked about 6 hours on this vehicle, I spent another two hours researching the problem then composing and ... |
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| 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited X 3.8L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1J4GB39157 Well, I've taken the Jeep to 2 shops. The consensus seems to be that it is a "vibration" in the engine rather than a stumble that may never be fixed unless I go with a new engine. I used almost all new parts on the rebuild such as pistons and bearings but I ... |
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| 2007 Lexus RX350 3.5L p0778 VIN: 2T2HK31U97 Ok, this one is fixed. It wound up being an ecm. Here's a rundown of what we found and I hope this helps someone in the future. We found the SL2 and SL3 shift solenoids in the trans are identical. To rule out a faulty solenoid we swapped them but the code rem... |
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| 2001 Mazda 626 ES 2.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1YVGF22C71 REPLACED FRONT CONVERTER,CLEARED THE CODE AND HAVE ROAD TESTED IT FOR A FEW WARM UP CYCLES NO CODES STORED. THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP. Trouble codes: P0420 (Warm up catalyst efficiency below threshold). |
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| 2004 Mercedes-Benz SL500 5.0L A/C Compressor VIN: WDBSK75F24 Replace SAM unit coded and cleared all the codes. A/C is working great customer happy |
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| 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S 3.8L A/C compressor VIN: WP0AB2A91B Code C102 was caused by a bad drivers seat power module that had corroded connections and circuit board. We unplugged the module and code C102 was able to be reset from the gateway and A/C compressor modules. We replaced the seat module. Also we replaced the A... |
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