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| 2008 Audi A4 Quattro 3.2L Hesitation VIN: WAUDH78E78 hello all audi techs, got his car from another shop and cust wanted high press pump replaced per other shops diag, did not help, it has an extended crank and cuts out.. using vag-com low side press is 5-6 bar and confirmed with mechanical gauge, high side actu... Trouble codes: P0087, P2296 |
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| 2011 BMW X3 xDrive28i 3.0L Unknown VIN: 5UXWX5C55B Help fellow BMW techs! This x-3 came in in limp home mode- trans fault 420321 ( 4e9b) egs gear monitoring 2nd gear to gear x. Found sib24 02 11 for this exact code and symptoms. re programmed egs- sent customer home. The vehicle worked great for a day or so th... |
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| 2009 Cadillac Escalade ESV 6.2L No Start, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1GYFC262X9 vehicle came to me with this code p0016. the owner had replced cam senor and crank sensor. fuel injectors, throttle body o2 sensors. the car would loose power and timing would not change it wouldnt advance. so i looked at it and have a good oil pressure readin... Trouble codes: P0016 |
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| 1998 Chevrolet Astro 4.3L No Spark VIN: 1GCDM19W0W Good day and thank you in advance for your assistance. This Astro Van died on the customer when driving. Would start, but only run for 2-3 seconds before shutting down. Had the vehicle towed to us. When we received the vehicle it would crank and crank, but no... |
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| 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 5.3L No Start VIN: 2GCEK19TX2 Vehicle came in with occasional no start-took three days and finally would not start- Had no fuel pump activity. Replaced pump and vehicle started fine. Went to pull out and now wont start. p0101 will not clear. Replaced air flow sensor and still no start. Sta... Trouble codes: P0101 |
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| 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 5.3L No Start, Stall VIN: 1GCEC14T02 Intermittent hot stalls at idle and hard to start. Happens about 3 times a week. Very intermittent. Customer said it does not help to hold at WOT to start. Customer said he noticed the tach was jumpy when this happened one time. I had a fuel pressure gauge on ... Trouble codes: P0706 (Trans. Range Sw. Performance), U1041 (Loss of EBCM Comm.) |
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| 2008 Chevrolet Express 3500 6.0L Hesitation, no power VIN: 1GBJG31K18 this is a cutaway van with a shuttle body dropped on. the van has no power once hot taking off from a stop. once above 30 mph shuttle drives fine.on acceleration from a stop, the rpm's will only increase 200-400 and bus will very slowly chug up to speed. I'm l... |
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| 2012 Chevrolet Equinox LS 2.4L Surge, Misfire VIN: 2GNALBEK0C It has a miss fire at a hot idle in gear. Very intermittent. customer says this has been going on for a long time before and after the original repairs. After an extended expressway drive or extended hot idle it will develop a random misfire only at idle. It ... Trouble codes: P0300 (testing and results) |
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| 2013 Chevrolet Sonic LT 1.8L a/c VIN: 1G1JA6SH5D Found ambient temp sensor broken replaced ambient temp sensor. check wires coming from pcm have ground and 5v ref. radio reeds -40 but the scanner reads 98 but when you cycle the key it changes to 68 every time you cycle the key the reading changes on the scan... |
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| 2004 Dodge Ram 2500 ST 5.9L transmission VIN: 3D7KA28C84 The customer initially brought the vehicle in with a new transmission case and tail housing. The tail shaft seal popped out. The driveline busing was spinning inside of the tail housing. We replaced the bushing and seal. About a week later the customer brought... |
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| 2000 Ford E-350 Econoline Club Wagon Custom 5.4L Hesitation, Cuts out, Bog on accel VIN: 1FTSE34L5Y Van starts and idles fine. On accel it bogs and wont move. Try to snap throttle in neutral and wont rev just bogs. Cant power brake either. Thought it was clogged cat so removed O2 and had same symptoms. Checked backpressure at o2 bung, 0-2 psi when trying to ... |
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| 2003 Ford F-150 XL 4.2L starting / gauges VIN: 1FTRF18243 customer was driving when all gauges cut out he thought it was a bad alternator. when he shut it off it now cranks but will not start also on the cluster only the battery and airbag lite light up. sent out for repair they said cluster was bad and made necessar... |
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| 2005 Ford F-250 Super Duty XL 5.4L Parking Brake VIN: 1FTNF21575 The customer came back very upset and said the parking brake does not hold vehicle when parked up hill since we worked on rear brakes in April. According to tech, the parking brake holds when parked down hill. We noticed there is little resistance on p.b. peda... |
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| 2006 Ford F-250 Super Duty XLT 6.0L fan clutch VIN: 1FTSW21P26 New customer came in with vehicle over heating 140446, found fan clutch harness cut, Replaced fan clutch, install screws into harness clip ,checked clearance of harness and fan, can put hand between ran and watched harness with bore camera. All good returned v... |
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| 2006 Ford F-450 Super Duty XLT 6.8L Poor Fuel Economy, loss of power VIN: 1FDXF46Y26 has no codes but has loss of power under load. Going to check catalytic converter next but no fault codes. Trouble codes: P0460 (Fuel Sender Fault) |
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| 2010 GMC Yukon XL 1500 SLT 5.3L guages VIN: 1GKUCKE06A this is a friends truck, it has intermittent hard start at times it will stall and sometimes when he finally gets it started back up it will act like it is taking off in third gear, but after it cools off it's fine but sometime when its cold it really acts up,... |
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| 2000 Isuzu Rodeo LS 3.2L Cuts out, studder in spark & i VIN: 4S2DM58W1Y this viehicle has not had a harness engine bay repair going to try cam crank senser for possible drop outs but one secondary 02 senser bank 2 readings are high but don't think its the cause of engine shutdown at cruise but studder in engine before can be cam c... |
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| 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4.7L blows #6 fuse VIN: 1J4GW48N84 Jeep originally came in for overheating, found blown head gasket. Other technician in the shop replaced the head gaskets upon starting the engine idled but was idling a little rough. CEL came on and had code p1499 stored. Found fan to be unplugged shut of engi... |
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| 2011 Kia Sedona LX 3.5L Fobs VIN: KNDMG4C70B I have a GDS but have never programmed RKE transmitter with it. These are Just RKE transmitters and not Smart transmitters. Could someone please walk me through the registration procedures/programing procedures for these transmitters using factory GDS. Thank y... |
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| 2012 Nissan Pathfinder LE 5.6L Ignition locked VIN: SN1AR1NB3C Nisn techs I need a little reasurence. There's very little information on this 2012 steering column lock/Ignition switch. It won't turn... it has an I key and a regular key but not a push button it has a rubber nub that you twist. It won't budge even with the ... |
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| 2012 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Premium 2.5L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 4S3BMCC60C Vehicle came in on tow truck. Very rough idle, had to two foot it into the shop. Pulled codes, found multiple misfires on multiple cylinders. Replaced spark plugs. After replacing spark plugs, misfires went away on cylinders 3 and 4, cylinder 1 still misfiring... Trouble codes: P0301, P0303, P0304, P050A, C0231 |
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| 2013 Subaru Forester X Limited 2.5L timing chain VIN: JF2SHAEC2D Hello, I am stumped. This Subaru came in for a rod knock. We replaced the short block and installed the engine. It will barely run. It backfires sometimes like timing. It is running on two cylinders. Cylinders 2 and 3 are dead. I checked everything. I removed ... |
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| 2005 Toyota Tacoma Pre Runner 2.7L Failed Headgasket VIN: 5TETX62N65 We have found our first failed Head gasket on a 2005 2.7L Tacoma and all of the service information that we have(ALLDATA, Identifix, and TIS) says that engine removal is required. It looks like we should be able to do it in car. I was wondering if there is any... |
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| 2003 Volkswagen Passat W8 4.0L Crankshaft VIN: WVWZK63B73 Hi, I am looking for torque specs to reassemble this w8. I specifically need the torque specs for the crankshaft bed plate(bearing cap), the connecting rod bearing caps, and the flex plate to flywheel. I also need to know if any of this hardware is one time us... |
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| 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SEL 2.0L Misfire VIN: 3VWTJ71K19 ok I have a VW jetta CCTA engine. The car was towed in due to timing chain tensioner failure. The tensioner let go and customer bent all the intake valves. We took the head off, sent it to the machine shop and they replace all intake valve ( they said exhaust... Trouble codes: P0300, P0303 |
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| 2010 Volkswagen CC Luxury 2.0L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: WVWHP7AN7A Ive got a 2000 VW 2.0 TSI that had gas in cylinder #2 replaced injector and then #3 full of fuel. Replaced the other 3 injectors and no more washing . Now have miss on cylinder #1 I scoped primary signal on #1 and #2 I seem to have ok patterns I haven't used s... Trouble codes: P0301 (Cyl misfire 1), P0300 |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2004 BMW 530i 3.0L Cuts out, Stall, Misfire VIN: WBANA735X4 Car is still not fixed, all tips given were mostly about battery or cable connections which were all triple tested and verified ok. No useful tips were given for this help request Trouble codes: 29A9, 29A8, 299C, 27CA, 27D9, 299B. |
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| 1993 Buick Roadmaster 5.7L Excessive Emissions, Cuts out, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1G4BN5375P Thanks for everyone that responded. During the first test drive that I had, with no problems, I put aside the idea of a plugged cat. There are no O2 sensors on this vehicle, so I dropped the exhaust down a hair. What a difference that made. Next I disconnected... |
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| 1992 Chevrolet C1500 Cheyenne 4.3L Cuts out, No power VIN: 1GCDC14Z1N Fuel injectors was the fix, the I scoped the oxygen sensor and it showed a lean condition when I was having the lack of power , the live data was too slow to be seen thanks to all for your replies . Another one fixed |
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| 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer LS 4.2L abs module VIN: 1GNDS13S05 i didn't make the repair because the customer decided it wasn't worth the money but thanks for all of the insight,i did verify that it needed a abs module. |
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| 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt LT 2.2L Cooling Systems VIN: 1G1AT58HX9 So when we told the lady she would be needing an engine she went car shopping and is not going to fix this cobalt.Thank you guys for the advice. |
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| 2002 Dodge Neon SE 2.0L No Start, Stall VIN: 1B3ES46C12 Thanks for all the feedback. I did check for codes after the stall and before cycling the key and I had no new codes. I also checked for codes in the SKIM (didn't know to do that before you guys suggested it) and found a code for antenna failure (just said ant... Trouble codes: P1685 (SKIM invalid or wrong). |
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| 1968 Ford Thunderbird 7.0L Plenum Chamber VIN: 1234576788 Thank you all for your information.Customer is going to save his money and locate the large items that will be need to perform the repair. He is bring in the 58 rambler instead to rebuild the front end. Thanks again. Jeff |
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| 2010 Ford Focus SEL 2.0L Throttle VIN: WF0PXXGCDP Thank you to all who responded. We were unable to get the car to play up in the workshop and didn't have enough information to make a good call as to what to do next, so we decided not to proceed any further. Thanks, Nigel. |
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| 1999 GMC Savana 1500 5.7L speedometer, odometer VIN: 1GDFG15R1X Removed the VCM to inspect and found a lot of corrosion inside. Replaced the VCM, reprogrammed, and speedo/odometer now work properly. Thanks for all the input. |
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| 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 3.6L transfercase VIN: 1C4RJFFM4C Thanks for the info everyone. I could not find a detailed wiring diagram for the T/C management which didn't help my endeavors and fault code C 1444 explanation indicates that the transfer case selector motor is hot, when in fact there is no sensor in the elec... |
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| 2010 Lexus IS250 2.5L transfer case VIN: JTHCF5C26A Thanks for the replies. Close inspection revealed no drain plug on the transfer case so I believe Identifix is correct that the transmission supplies the transfer case. Less work for me. Thanks again, Steve |
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| 1996 Mazda B2300 2.3L A/C Compressor VIN: 4F4CR12A4T Thanks to all who responded. The PCM grounds the relay but for some reason it quits grounding it. Our info shows it would not ground if it sees overheating,low idle or wot. Scan tool shows neither. We finally just jumped the wire at the relay and it turns on ... |
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| 2007 Mazda CX-7 Touring 2.3L timing chain VIN: JM3ER29317 Hi to all of you , and thank you very much for your time and information. It went all well and ran great no noise and no TDC poo12 . Those mark on the chain and the cranshaft sprocket, I read all data , Mitchell, identi fix ... No information about it , so I ... |
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| 1982 Mercedes-Benz 380SL 3.8L Poor Idle Quality, Stall VIN: WDBBA45A4C sorry for the delayed response. i didn't find any vacuum leaks. i replaced the idle speed control. then i discovered a low voltage signal to the idle speed control. the cause was the installation of a old hard wired phone. once the wiring problem was fixed my ... |
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| 2007 Mercedes-Benz E350 3.5L Starter VIN: WDBUF56X47 The car at this time is still a no crank no start and every time I think about going back to it I get pulled away and the car gets the back burner as well. So anyone reading this I know for sure the ecu is not letting the car start. Is it possible that when th... |
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| 2007 Nissan Murano SL 3.5L Air Conditioning VIN: JN8AZ08T07 OK, let me start with many thanks for all that responded. This was a challenging one, what the problem turned out to be was that unknown to anybody involved, this vehicle had a evaporator core installed sometime in the past, the aftermarket core was aprox 1/2"... |
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