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Professional Automotive Repair Technical Discussions for January 31, 2017 International Automotive Technicians' Network (iATN) - Members Only |
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| 2012 Acura RDX SH-AWD 2.3L Stall, Misfire VIN: 5J8TB1H5XC I have this Acura that feels like a miss at idle. It only happens in drive or reverse if you sit at stop sign for more than 15 seconds. The miss feel like a ignition miss. There is a big "jerk" when it happens and can be intermittant. It feel like a coil faili... |
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| 2000 BMW 323Ci 2.5L no heat VIN: WBABR3345Y Okay needs some help from a BMW Techs. This vehicle came to me already had a new radiator, thermostat and water pump. Complaint no heat. I figured it had an air pocket after draining the system and vacuuming it down and filling it then bled the system at bleed... |
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| 2005 Buick LaCrosse CXS 3.6L key wont turn VIN: 2G4WE56765 The ignition lock cylinder will not turn. It was turning when vehicle brought in. Replaced ignition switch and turned ok but still no start. Got other work so went off for a couple days.Went back out to push it inside and the key will not turn but the vehicle ... |
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| 1989 Chevrolet G30 Sportvan 5.7L Mounting bracket VIN: 1GCGG35K5K This is a contractors van, started as a Virginia State Police accident investigation van, everything is as heavy duty as possible. The accessory bracket (horseshoe) on the front breaks on the left side where it bends forward for the power steering pump. The la... |
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| 2004 Chevrolet Aveo LS 1.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: KL1TJ52684 Hey guys need a little help here . This is my wife's car she blew it up. I installed a used engine replaced the water pump and timing belt ,spark plugs etc , it runs great only problem is the check engine light keeps flashing once you hit around 20 mph, its no... Trouble codes: P0300, P1781 |
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| 2006 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LS 4.3L No Start VIN: 3GCEC14X66 Truck came in with no start.Had code PO341 CMP sensor circuit out of range.Check and test CMP sensor and no sensor signal..Removed cap and rotor and found cap got real hot and melted inside.Replaced cap,rotor and CMP sensor..Truck started hard like flooded out... Trouble codes: P0341 (Cmp sensor circuit out of range), P0335 (Ckp sensor a circuit problem) |
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| 2006 Chevrolet W4500 Tiltmaster W4S042 5.2L Cuts out, MIL Lamp on VIN: J8DC4B1686 This truck is kicking our butts. Two years ago it had a lack of power. We found a corroded fuel tank. Replaced tank, fuel filter pedestal and all four injectors. Programmed the injectors and shipped it. It had a symptom of slight loss of power after @ 1 hour o... Trouble codes: P0087 (Fuel rail pressure too low), P0093 (Fuel system large leak) |
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| 2007 Chevrolet C5500 Kodiak C5E044 6.6L lack of power VIN: 1GBE5C1287 The fuel shrader valve test port is leaking. Took the shrader valve portion of the test port out and it looks exactly like an a/c shrader valve that is available. Can an a/c shrader valve be installed w/o issue? Fuel contaminant oring vs. a/c oil oring and val... Trouble codes: P0168 (p0087-), P0087 |
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| 2010 Chevrolet Malibu LT 2.4L No Start, Cuts out, Stall VIN: 1G1ZC5EB8A Have one that's challenging me a bit here and would like some suggestions from the great minds of IATN. This is the second visit for this car in the last two weeks. Customer states that the vehicle shuts down and will not restart for a brief period of time. Ve... Trouble codes: P0700 (u0073-), U0073 (u0100-), U0100 (u0140-), U0140 (u2105-), U2105 (u2143-), U2143 |
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| 2012 Chevrolet Equinox LT 2.4L Surge, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2GNFLEEK0C The history is the vehicle came to us not running believed the chain was broken, quick diagnostics found the cam chain was loose and the valves had been bent. We replaced the head with a remanufactured head, replaced both timing chains guides and tensioners, w... Trouble codes: P0014 (Exhaust Camshaft Position System Performance Symptom 00), P0089 (Fuel Pressure Regulator Performance Symptom 00), P0013 (Intake Air Temperature Sensor Circuit High Voltage Symptom 00), P0300 (Engine Misfire Detected Symptom 00), P2228 (Barometric Pressure Sensor Circuit Low Voltage Symptom 00), P228D |
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| 2000 Chrysler Sebring LXi 2.5L Stall VIN: 4C3AU52N3Y This vehicle stalls when coming to a stop. Throttle body has been cleaned and minimum airflow is within specs. Reset iac position and minimum throttle memories with snapon solus pro. No codes. Cannot duplicate concern in neutral or powerbraking in shop, must b... |
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| 1987 Ford F-250 Custom 4.9L Mechanical VIN: 1FTHF25Y2H I need to check valve adjustment but don't have tool to bleed down lifters. Is there a way to do it without tool? |
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| 1999 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L battery VIN: 1FAFP53U6X Hi all. I have a 99 Taurus in the shop here. I will say I'm not at all familiar with these cars. (most of my work is Volvo) The customer brought the car in a couple weeks ago. The battery had been dead and needed to be jumped before they brought it in. Tested ... |
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| 2002 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XL 4.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FMZU77E72 Hi, have 02 sport trac with p0171 and p0174. Replaced intake gaskets, spark plugs and wires, has new pcv hose, new maf sensor, and new fuel filter. Both bank ltft's go to 20% at idle, stft stay at -3 to 3% at idle. If engine rpm is held up we get same readings... Trouble codes: P0171 (Lean bank 1), P0174 (Lean bank 2) |
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| 2005 Ford F-150 FX4 5.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Stall VIN: 1FTPX14525 Vehicle originally came in with codes listed above.(P171,174,2196,2198) Found O2's stuck at 900+. Cleaned MAF first, got better Bank1 started switching bank2 got better but not switching. Replace MAF, both O2's switching nicely, vehicle ran good. Multiple road... |
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| 2011 Ford F-150 XL 5.0L cooling fan VIN: 1FTFW1EFXB Strange one here. The cooling fans will come on full blast as if its hot after about 2-10 minutes of driving, before the vehicle is even at running temp. Sometimes they run at full blast all day, sometimes they'll do it for 15 min and then operate normally. Do... |
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| 2006 Honda Civic EX 1.8L Head Gasket VIN: 2HGFG12856 During test drive vehicle lost power. While idling pulled dipstick and noticed steam coming from hole. Pulled plugs and pressurized cooling system and found coolant in cylinders. |
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| 2005 Infiniti G35 3.5L Unknown VIN: JNKVC51E05 after I changed clock spring having trouble with right front wheel lock up on right turn only. also when you take off slip lights up on dash had c1145 steering angle sensor code. but did computer adjust and that code has not come back. also vdc lights up sayin... |
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| 2006 Kia Rio5 SX 1.6L no check eng light VIN: KNADE16366 I cannot communicate or get any data, im trying to scan the car and cannot communicate... I have power at obd but cannot connect, all fuses are good |
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| 2012 Kia Soul ! 2.0L Radio VIN: KNDJT2A67C I was wondering if anyone had this experience before and if there is any more information available on what else to check. I also put a used amplifier in and still no sound. I would appreciate any help since I am stuck with this one. Thank you. |
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| 2007 Lexus LS460 4.6L abs module VIN: JTHBL46F97 all fuse , and relay is ok |
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| 2004 Mitsubishi Galant GTS 3.8L No Start VIN: 4A3AB76SX4 Student in our automotive classes replaced water pump timing belt and removed intake plenum to replace valve cover gaskets. Car started and ran fine. He drove vehicle approximately 15 miles stalled out and was towed back to shop. Has good fuel pressure. No inj... |
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| 1998 Nissan Altima GLE 2.4L Misfire VIN: 1N4DL01D3W This car is a 5-speed manual transmission, not an automatic. The problem is a misfire on cylinder #1 which occurs only at low RPM when driving in a high gear, such as 5th. Previous shop replaced wires, plugs, fuel injector, EGR and EGR transducer. I found that... |
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| 2017 Other Chrysler Cherokee 2.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1C4PJLDB0H I have this code P219A that keeps coming back. The Jeep runs great hot and cold! I have no misfires showing up. I have checked compression (all about 120) did a cyl leakage test (all under 15%). I am just wondering if anyone has seen this code before. I did re... Trouble codes: P219A |
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| 1992 Toyota Land Cruiser 4.0L LongBlock Assy VIN: JT3FJ80W6N Hello Landcruiser Veterans I will be doing an engine R&R on this little jewel soon. First time doing one on the model. Can the engine be pulled without pulling the tranny out with it? and does this make it easier or did it make you wish you had done it "th... |
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| 2007 Volkswagen Jetta 2.5 2.5L Surge, Hunting idle. VIN: 3VWRF71K17 This vehicle is driving us "up the wall". The vehicle arrived with P0507 and P2279 stored and the customer stated the vehicle would surge or hunt at idle (500-2500rpm) intermittently. It took several test drives initially to duplicate the concern. We have bloc... Trouble codes: P0507 (Idle control system RPM higher than expected upper limit reached) |
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| 2005 Volvo XC90 2.5T 2.5L Hesitation, backfire VIN: YV1CY59285 Wow! We have had alot of fun with this one. car came in running poorly, lights on dash, stumbling, turbo making noise. Found wiring wrong, vacuum routing to wrong places. now the turbo is quiet, all problems except one. the engine runs STRONG, however when you... Trouble codes: 500D |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2001 Chevrolet S10 2.2L No Start, Stall VIN: 1GCCS14591 So when I show up to diagnose car they are using a rather low end charger I noticed. But still gave us power to do testing. But many cheap chargers operate the line voltage out is noisy. As was this one. So we start checking things, eventually I ask ex-coworke... |
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| 2012 Chevrolet Traverse LT 3.6L ABS and traction control VIN: 1GNKVJED9C Checked data lines and replaced TCM and programmed. Everything works correctly and transmission functions normally. Thanks for all the help, I really do appreciate all the responses. Mike |
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| 1995 Ford F-350 XL 7.5L No Start VIN: 2FTHF36G1S Thanks for all the help guys it ended up being the map sensor funny i bought a new one from napa and did not work took one of another truck and ran fine so took the one back to napa and got another new one |
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| 2013 Ford F-150 FX4 3.5L Pressure in Radiator VIN: 1FTFW1ET1D Well Reno from Colorado held the clue. It was the water pump. They have a plastic propeller on the water pump which was cracked at the shaft were it pressed on. An I am not sure how it changed my combustion leak detection dye colors but I wonder if it is somet... |
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| 2006 GMC Sierra 2500 HD SLT 6.6L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1GTHK23246 Well she is fixed and you guys really gave me great advise. The glow plugs were not AC Delco but they were Diesel RX glow plugs and I did swap them around to see if that was the culprit but what ended up fixing it was the module. After replacing the module I h... Trouble codes: P0676. |
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| 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged 5.0L Supercharger VIN: SALSH2E41C I did get the supercharger off this engine. The short answer is it was stuck on the dowel pins. The long answer is that I was making an assumtion that the dowel pins where between the cylinder head and the supercharger where the two pieces meet. That isn't the... |
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| 2010 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 3.0L Cuts out, Stall VIN: WD3PE8CC0A It has been a week with no call back so it looks like the vehicle is fixed. The fuel filter was restricted. Fuel pressure after the filter was 60psi at idle. when RPM's were increased above 2000 in park/neutral, pressure would drop to 40psi. After filter repla... Trouble codes: P0088 (Fuel rail pressure too high), 11BF0, 130F0. |
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