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| 2011 Audi Q5 Premium 2.0L ABS, TCS,MIL,TPMS and Parking brake failure lights VIN: WA1CFAFP0B Hi, This SUV came in with customer complaint of MIL on. Test drive revealed MIL, ABS, TCS, TPMS and park brake failure lights were all on. Scanned the vehicle and it has 7 faults in DME. % are for running issue and the others are for Function restriction due t... |
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| 2009 BMW 335i xDrive 3.0L Excessive Emissions, Hesitation, Surge VIN: WBAWC73529 car came in with engine light is on code p0172 bank one is rich,all injectors are replaced and new coils & spark plugs, calibrate fuel injectors, reset the memory and drove the car still doing the same, light hesitation around 40-45mph end engine light comes b... |
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| 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD LT 6.0L engine VIN: 1GCHK59K49 The customer picked up his truck and went about 3 miles down the highway when he let his foot off the gas the motor quit.We towed it into the shop and discovered no valve train movement.The oil level is perfect and we had no trouble when we test drove the truc... |
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| 2010 Chevrolet Traverse LT 3.6L Stall VIN: 1GNLVFED1A Vehicle will stall when accelerating, no codes, no miss-fire, engine just stalls, short term fuel trims at 0 plus or mins 2, checked all wiring, grounds, recheck every connector in engine compartment, hooked extra ground wires up to heads, only thing we can fi... |
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| 2011 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ 2.4L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G1ZE5E16B Hi, this was towed in dead, timing chain guide broken, chain jumped, oil low and dirty. I installed chain, guides, chain tensioner, all went together pretty smooth, lined up 3 colored links with sprocket marks, put in new intake and exhaust cam solenoids. the ... |
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| 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser 2.4L Battery VIN: 3C8FY4BB81 This PT cruiser started draining the battery months ago and we traced a current drain of 160 mamps to the radio, but it has another intermittent current drain somewhere else. It will sometimes sit for days without the battery draining, but then will drain the ... |
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| 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie 5.7L Battery drain VIN: 1D7HU18D23 I have a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 with the 5.7 hemi. Customer complains that the truck goes dead after a few days sitting. I did an amp draw test and it is drawing 1.8 amps always. Pull all fuses and no significant drop until I pull fuse 51. Unplug the instrument c... |
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| 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SE 3.3L Mechanical VIN: 2D8HN44H68 Has a skip on cylinder #3 was not skipping on that cylinder until put back together compression is same as other cylinders has water on plug had heads checked and surface said they pass do not see anything wrong with blocks surface are theses heads bad about c... |
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| 2004 Ford Ranger Edge 4.0L Idleing VIN: 1FTZR15E14 This Truck was brought to me from another shop. it has a miss on #1 2 & 3 Plugs,plugwires,and coil was replaced before i received it.Only Misses at idle.done a compression test on # 1 cyl 60# Test on # 4 125.Leaning towards timing chain but thought i would ask... |
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| 2004 Ford Crown Victoria 4.6L speedometer VIN: 2FAFP71W34 I have this 04 crown vic that the speedometer is reading extremely fast. I'm talking it reads 130 mph when I'm actually going 30. If I take my foot off the brake and just creep forward in my driveway it reads around 15mph just barely moving. This car was bough... |
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| 2007 Ford Ranger XLT 3.0L Stall VIN: 1FTZR44U97 battery is new voltage at battery engine runing 14,5 voltage eng off 12.5volts when driving 65mph losses power no throtle response like it stall but all warnig lites off like engine is on then it drops speed obout 35 mph then it works again check fuel pressure... Trouble codes: P1396 |
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| 2008 Ford F-150 King Ranch 5.4L Low Fuel Indicator VIN: 1FTPW12VX8 The Fuel gauge works correctly from full to empty. When the fuel gets close to empty the low fuel indicator does not come on. What part of this systems tells the clusters low fuel indicator to come on? |
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| 2016 Ford F-450 Super Duty XL 6.8L Valvetrain VIN: 1FDUF4GY9G Truck is from a local tow company, came in with a complain for a dead misfire and engine noise. #8 not contributing. Removed left valve cover and both intake rocker arms on #8 fell off. Also 9 and 10 had one intake rocker arm off so they still contribute. C... |
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| 2005 Hyundai Tucson GLS 2.7L steering VIN: KM8JN72D95 Vehicle will pull left and or right intermittently after slightly turning the steering wheel in the left or right direction. Brake calipers are not binding, ball joints are not binding, intermediate steering shaft u joints are not rusted and binding like ford ... |
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| 2006 Kia Amanti 3.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: KNALD12486 This vehicle originally came to us from a state not requiring emissions testing. It had multiple codes related to misfires. Replaced all spark plugs and coils along with upper and lower manifold gaskets, and valve cover gaskets. All rubber vacuum lines to inta... Trouble codes: P0401 (Egr insufficent flow) |
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| 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK320 3.2L Stall VIN: WDBLJ65G11 The car had the water pump replaced at a gas station and after the pump was replaced the engine would start then die right away, so the station replaced the battery even though the engine cranked fine. The car was then towed to me. I scanned the car with my AU... Trouble codes: P0112 (Intake Air Temperture Sensor), P0221 (Function monitor Electronic Accelerator) |
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| 2003 Mercedes-Benz CLK320 3.2L Esp Bas VIN: WDBLK65G43 The customer wants to sell this car but we can't make the bas and esp warnings go away. The only way that I can make our Solus Pro scan tool communicate is to enter it as a 2002 clk320 then I can see the wheel speed sensors work and after I clear the codes and... |
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| 2005 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG 5.5L Starter VIN: WDBUF76J45 Hello everyone, We have a Mercedes E55 that is kicking my ass. We are a Euro shop but I need some help with this thing. The car originally came in with a no crank problem. We checked the starter solenoid and there was 12v there while the key was in the crank p... |
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| 1994 Toyota Camry XLE 3.0L passenger airbag VIN: JT2GK13E9R I can not get the airbag light to reset following the reset procedures in alldata. turn key on leave on for 6 seconds, ground tc for one second, then ab for 1 second, tc for one second more, ab again for another second, then finish in tc until (light goes off ... |
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| 2003 Volkswagen Jetta Wolfsburg Edition 1.8L speedometer VIN: 3VWPE69M43 We have this 2003 Jetta in the shop and the speedometer is not working. There are no codes in any module. Verified the TCM and ECM both recognize and show a MPH reading in data stream. The cluster doesn't show any speed in data, just 0. Performed sweep test o... |
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| 2006 Volvo XC70 2.5L High fuel pressure VIN: YV4SZ59236 The system uses a fuel pump control module (PEM) which gets a signal from the ECM which in turn gets its fuel pressure input from a sensor on the fuel rail. Trouble codes: P0088 |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2002 Chevrolet Impala 3.4L No Start VIN: 2G1WF52E12 Well, this should have been a simple fix: older car, bare bones system. But it fought us all the way. Sometimes it is a curse to follow tried and true diagnostics procedures, which causes one to overlook the obvious. The culprit was the BCM, which refused to ... |
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| 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid 6.0L No Start, hybrid system VIN: 3GCXKUEJ5A OK, The responses ranged widely. Ultimately it was the interlock at the battery. It pivots to lock the large pins then LASTLY the lever slides down to engage a secondary interlock with smaller pins. Since I didn't remove the plug, I didn't know. I read another... Trouble codes: 00, A0, 1A, E2, 00, A0, 1B, 05 (unknown - accesory power module battery control module motor control module), 00, A0, 1B, 06 (unknown - accesory power module battery control module motor control module), 00, 55, 52, 33 (ECM - unknown no description in scan tool.). |
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| 2011 Chevrolet Cruze LS 1.8L All foward gears VIN: 1G1PC5SH5B Found this Bulletin wasn't readily available on diagnostic site due to how new it is and GM I guess not wanting it release yet # 16-NA-092: No Forward or Slips in Forward and Reverse Operates Normally - (Mar 23, 2016) Subject: No Forward or Slips in Forward a... |
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| 2005 Chrysler Pacifica Touring 3.5L cv joint on propeller shaft VIN: 2C4GF68485 THANK YOU TED AND EVERYONE !!! The best clue was that the inner spider close grooves align with the outer flange wide groves.By installing the balls while sliding the cage and spider to the very end of the outer flange and swiveling it enough to insert the bal... |
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| 2006 Chrysler Sebring Touring 2.7L No Start, Extended Crank VIN: 1C3EL56R06 Saturday Morning I came in and the Car was in my Bay and I had my scope already plugged into everything, Cam and Crank at the PCM like I took all my other patterns and #2 Coil... The car Started right up after about 2 seconds of Cranking... I had a 5 Volt Sq... |
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| 1995 Ford E-350 Econoline 7.3L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1FDKE30F4S replaced the pcm and all is good,thank you all for the replies. keith |
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| 2005 Honda Element EX 2.4L Loss of power VIN: 5J6YH28665 We tested oil pressure in the VTEC pressure switch port. We tested everything and it all tested okay but the code still would return. After multiple test drives the problem went away. We believe the oil change eventually solved the problem. Trouble codes: P2646 (VTEC pressure switch low). |
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| 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4.0L AC Clutch VIN: 1J4GW58S1X We spent way to much time on this one and multiple calls to identifix. We were unable to find the problem. Possible problem with the BCM junction block? |
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| 2005 Nissan X-Trail LE 2.5L No Start VIN: JN8BT08VX5 I received an email from IATn requesting that this be closed. It is still unresolved. As I stated, it's 20-km away and I scooted up when I could. Thanks to some who had references for pin outs and such. We had already been down those roads but revisited th... |
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| 2006 Pontiac G6 2.4L Pass Emissions VIN: 1G2ZF55B56 Thanks for all the replies, Advanced warranty the dorman Catalytic Converter that another shop installed and we installed a walker Catalytic Converter and after driving for 6 days different drive cycles a tank of gas the Cat monitor finally reset and the car p... |
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| 2007 Volvo S40 2.4i 2.4L MIL Lamp on VIN: YV1MS38597 thanks for the info, the oil pressure is correct, desired and actual inlet cam timing is also correct on the scanner but the code still sets. None of our scanners will command VVT operation. We are going to carry out a re-flash after Easter (the car is require... Trouble codes: 640F, P, 0016 (crankshaft position-camshaft position correlation bank 1 sensor A). |
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