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2009 Audi A4 Quattro 2.0L Excessive Long Crank VIN: WAULF78K19
After cylinder head repair and timing chain replacement customer states long crank at times unless you give it gas and transmission does not feel the same to him. We have verified long crank after hot soak of only 20 to 30 minutes it will crank until you give ... Trouble codes: P2188 (System 2 Rich At Idle Bank 1), P2181 (Engine coolant temp below regulating temp)
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2011 BMW 328i xDrive 3.0L Engine VIN: WBAPK5C55B
Customer complaint is an engine rattle at higher RPM's and more so after engine is hot. We duplicated complaint with some regularity. The engine has to be revved to 2k to 4k to get the noise and it is a high pitched, "tin" type of noise. The noise sounds lik...
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2001 Jaguar XK8 4.0L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: SAJDA42C61
This is a head scratcher here folks. this jag is misfiring and customer complains of an oil leak. i open the air filter box and its got an inch of oil in there and the filter is soaked. the supervisor had me replace the valve covers and plugs and a few coils l... Trouble codes: P0300, P1316
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2004 Land Rover Discovery S 4.6L Misfire, MIL Lamp on, No power VIN: SALTL19404
# 8 cyl @ 170 psi compresion good spark has injector paulse plug seem to be black like running rich has 16 pounds of vacume fuel pressure at 48 psi Trouble codes: 6C, 4B, 46 (catalyst damaging misfire cyl 8), 08 (misfire with/empty fuel)
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2004 Mercedes-Benz E320 3.2L Front Upper Control Arm w/Ball Joint VIN: WDBUF65J74
Vehicle came into our facility for a few repair items and during our inspection, we found that the ball joints on both front upper control arms (esp driver side) are loose. Our labor time guide states 4.3 hr for the driver side and 2.3 hr for the passenger si...
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1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate 2.0L crank no start VIN: ZARBA5414G
Thank you everyone for the replies. A couple things contributed to this concern. Battery had dropped charge just enough while sitting in shop and voltage dropping to 10.5 at ECU. Jump pack installed fired up but would die after a few seconds. Verified suffi...
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1990 Volkswagen Cabriolet 1.8L Hesitation, Cuts out VIN: WVWCB0150L
Thank you guys for the replies. we scoped the secondary ignition and everything was normal the fix was the wiper motor that made the car cut like that. it must have a short Inside we replaced it and everything came back to normal. Thanks again
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2011 Volkswagen GTI 2.0L electric window VIN: WVWHV7AJ0B
hello guys who tried to help me thank you. what it ended up being was i missed a couple things on the coding side of it re checked that noticed something was off from my original, changed it to what it should be reinitialized and good to go. once again thanks ...
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