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| 1996 Audi A6 2.8L Interior VIN: WAUGC84A2T I have no odometer & ambient temp back lighting. Alldata was not much help, they gave an instrument panel bulb location but it does not show it. The odometer and abient temp indicators look like LCDs. Is there a bulb(s)? If there aren't any what is in need of ... |
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| 2001 Austin Mini Cooper 1.6L MIL Lamp on Please some can help me i want known whos the description in this code Trouble codes: P2096 (Undocumented Code) |
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| 1998 Jaguar XK8 4.0L timing chain VIN: SAJGX2749V Gentleman, this vehicle was towed in, with a no start condition, upon inspecting engine, found a broken timing chain on rt camshaft, the small chain, my question is? do this engine bent valves? or can I just replace chains and rails, tensioners, retime engine ... |
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| 1987 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3 2.3L compressor VIN: WDBDA28D3H Hello This car has no power to compressor. We have already installed a new push button control head and the ac control unit(relay) by battery. The only way we can get compressor to run is to directly hook up a hot lead to compressor. Fuses in box appear good .... |
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| 1991 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3 2.3L dash/defroster vents VIN: WDBDA28D1N I have this '92 190E in my shop and the customer states that when the blower fan is on it blows air out the defrost vents no matter what. It is not a great deal of air, if the dash vents are selected then the majority of the air comes out the dash vents. There... |
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| 1992 Mercedes-Benz 500SL 5.0L speedometer VIN: WDBFA66E2N we replaced the evap and the a/c control head stopped working,replaced .and now we have no speedometer or odom. we have preformed the dash dagagnostic test and the speedo responds.we have checked for pinched wires and plug conections ,everything looks ok. look... |
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| 2000 Mercedes-Benz SLK230 Kompressor 2.3L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, no throttle response VIN: WDBKK47F1Y Hello to all. I hope someone out there can help. Customer had a DEAD-DEAD battery and needed a jump. Car was in their garage all winter long. Used booster pack and car started right up, but surged badly at idle. (Headlights and interior lights were getting dim... |
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| 1987 Volkswagen Cabriolet 1.8L oil light VIN: WVWCAO156H we got this litle dumplin' with the oil light flicker at random engine speed. could the problem be in the dash? the wiring diagram shows a diode & a control module. is there some sort of test to confirm this problem? thanks in advance!!! |
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| 1992 Volkswagen Golf 1.6L brake pedel VIN: 3VWFG01G3N the car came to me with a interminttant low brake pedel. i change the master cylinder,front pads, 2 discs, 2 calapers and had problem manually bleeding the system, change 2 wheel cylinder. proportionning valve move good. no air in the system. engine off system... |
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| 1999 Volkswagen Beetle GL 1.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: 3VWBC21C2X To focus on the real understanding here ... Catco says that they use the same catalytic converter for engines up to the size of 7.3L. That while they will make a warranty claim and replacement of this cat that we are now having trouble with the Cat below thr... |
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| 1983 Volvo 244 DL 2.3L brake waringin indicator VIN: YV1AX8UU8D car came in with suspected coolant leak (customer complaint), after we did waterpump replace prior. Was determined to be brake fluid leak from master, fluid was very low, light on.Master was replaced, brakes bled on two separate occasions. We now have no leaks... |
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| 1996 Volvo 850 GLT 2.4L Excessive Emissions, MIL Lamp on VIN: YV1LW5545T We have been working on this one for the past week and have exhausted our sources for a possible fix. The car came in with a code, oxygen sensor low voltage reading. Repaired some minor vacuum leaks and replace the front oxygen sensor. We test drove the car an... |
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Fixes & Summaries for European
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| 1996 Audi A4 2.8L aeration VIN: WAUDA88D3T Good morning tech's This one is fixed. The valvebody gasket was blown out (not sucked in like you would think). When i got the used trans the pan was smashed in like it was droped. The sudden rush of fluid through the filter must have spit the gasket out. I ... |
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| 1996 Audi A4 2.8L MIL Lamp on VIN: WAUDA88D1T Thanks to all who responded. We have called the custome on three occasion to find out how the car was running, and to see if the check engine light was on. Customer reports car is running well with no check engine light. |
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| 2000 Audi S4 2.7L MIL Lamp on VIN: WAUDD68DXY First off I would like to apoligize for the delay on the fix on this one. After waiting for the part I had to then wait for my father to get back into town so I could insall the sensor. So, the Mass Air Flow sensor fixed this car. After installing the new MAF ... Trouble codes: P1128 (Bank 1 lean), P1130 (Bank 2 Rich). |
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| 1994 BMW 325i 2.5L Surge Thanks to everyone of the 11 responses. You guys send me in the right direccion, witch was going over my previous steps. I cheked the O2 sensor wiring, then the sensor itself, ok. Then the idle valve and vaccum leaks, ok. Throttle position sensor (live data), ... |
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| 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560SL 5.6L SRS light is on VIN: WDBBA48D4K Our patient has developed new code # 10 which is SRS unit activated. Which from our experience it means that the unit is defective and has to be replaced. At $1450.00 for a part customer declines repair. The code #9 was defective bulb in the instrument cluster... |
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| 1999 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L Accessories VIN: 3VWRC29M2X well, sorry for the long delay posting fix, took vehicle to dealer for warranty module repair, (dealer was less than cooperative) finally dealer fixed car and said that an engineer happened to be there when they were diagnosing problem. engineer said that ther... |
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| 1996 Volvo 960 2.9L Air Bag VIN: YV1KS9606T Mike Tervakin called me at work from his shop in Colorado (Rocky Mountain Volvo) to tell me that without the Volvo software this code can not be cleared. Not sure if this includes the euro cartridge for the snap-on scanner or not but he did say that the code i... |
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| 1998 Volvo S70 2.4L service light no VIN: XV1LS5572W i wont to thank all 15 replies i got alot of usefull information i end up buying a reset tool you guys are great thanks for all your help god bless |
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