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| 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 5.3L No Start, Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1GCEK14TXY Hello and thank you for lending a hand on this. I have a one owner truck that has an intermittent long crank. Sometimes it is a 5-6 second crank and sometimes it will crank until you let off and try it again. If the truck doesn't start in the first 2 secon... |
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| 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe LTZ 5.3L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1GNFC13027 Cylinder 2 misfire. The car drives great with no misfire or hesistation but has a very slight miss at idle only. It is barely noticeable but when watching the misfire counter it slowly goes up on cylinder 2. Intake Vacuum is very steady 20". I have swapped... |
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| 2008 Chevrolet Avalanche LS 5.3L oil guage VIN: 3GNFK12378 new cusstomer refered. customer states that vehicle is losing oil pressure after warm, if rpms are held at or about 1800 oil pressure comes. confirmed customer complaint. did a manual oil pressure test and oil pressure guage drops to zero, but our oil guag... |
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| 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan SE 3.6L Pcm, Bcm, Icm, ? VIN: 2C4RDGBG3C Anyone know how I could reprogram the wheel size in this unit? Customer requested the 17" wheels as they were a factory option. I incorrectly thought I would have the choice present in a scan tool. Nope not Snappy, not Autel. Seems the only way is to have a co... |
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| 1998 Ford Windstar 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Stall VIN: 2FTDA54U7W This car started out with a mass air flow code & stalling at idle & idle fluctuation, I've replaced the Maf & TPS twice, cam sensor & CTS. I have done a scan with my new Autel scan, (so far I like it, Lights up the #'s read if its out of perameters.) & I c... Trouble codes: P1121 |
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| 2001 Ford Ranger Edge 4.0L Timing Chain VIN: 1FTZR15E51 This Ranger came in with the left head timing chain loose. Customer opted to have both timing chains replaced (front and rear). We removed the engine and replaced the timing chains with the Ford alignment tools. Now that it is back in, it sound likes it is... |
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| 2009 Ford F-450 Super Duty XL 6.4L regen counter I just have a question on the pids for regen requested and regen completed. This unit came in with a complaint of excessive regens. The dpf had been changed 6 months ago . I noticed the mileage between the two pids was about 500 miles. So a forced regen wa... |
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| 2013 Ford Focus ST 2.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FADP3L98D vehicle lost speed on the highway. the customer pulled over and had the car towed over. the car starts and runs fine at this time and we were able to clear code p0121 without any repairs. but code p26de is always on with koeo and can't be cleared. i don't ... Trouble codes: P26DE, P0121 |
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| 2001 Honda Civic LX 1.7L cooling system VIN: 2HGES16591 This car was towed in three months ago because cooling fan blade came apart & damaged radiator. Replaced radiator, radiator cap, fan assembly & thermostat. Customer returned car stating driving to work engine will overheat going up a long hill. Also every ... |
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| 2009 Honda Fit Sport 1.5L Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: JHMGE88469 Help Honda Techs!! This fit sets misfire codes in all cylinders.customer states the engine has always ran fine when this happens. we have tested compression, leak down, fuel trim is at 1.02 long and short- all spot on. We have replaced the rear o2 sensor w... Trouble codes: P0301 (p0302-), P0302 (p0303-), P0303 (p0304-), P0304 |
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| 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid 2.4L Hybrid drive VIN: KMHEC4A43C Vehicle was towed in slipping & binding. Would not upshift only go to a nuetral state or bind to a stop. Trans fluid black. Replace with used transmission with 60K. worked fine for first few gear changes. 1st through 6th. then started to freewheel on upshi... |
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| 2006 Mercury Montego Luxury 3.0L Fuse #48 VIN: 1MEFM40196 got this Montego with a no start condition. as soon as you install fuse #48 it blows right away. tried unplugging sensors related to the system with no much success. had anyone run into this before? thanks everyone in advance. |
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| 2005 Nissan Altima S 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1N4AL11D55 Complaint of intermittent misfire. We did: Compression test, 165-170 all cyls.. New plugs-TWICE, swapped coils- no change, new injector, removed intake upper to inspect runner control flaps- no problem found.. No vac leaks found with smoke either. When hap... Trouble codes: P0303 |
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| 2009 Subaru Impreza 2.5i 2.5L Head Gasket VIN: JF1GH60609 Vehicle was brought in by customer after visit to Subaru dealership. They wanted to sell customer Head gasket service because of motor oil leaking. Vehicle has no problems other than leaking oil from head gaskets and oil pan. I am pricing job up for... |
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| 1997 Toyota Corolla 1.6L No Start VIN: 1NXBA02E9V Have a crank-no-start condition on this crank-triggered, fixed-distributor style 4AFE Corolla. It kicks back against the starter as if it's over advanced or the firing order is off. Scan data shows 236 rpm when the wires are pulled off the plugs, and no codes.... |
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| 1999 Toyota Celica GT 2.2L parking & dash VIN: JT2DG02TXX I have no parking or dash lights. No power to the 2 fuses. The lights will work if power is supplied to the fuses. According the the wiring diagram there is supposed to be a tail lamp relay but I can't seem to find it. The car has 4 fuse/relay boxes. The i... |
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| 2014 Volkswagen Passat S 1.8L timing components VIN: 1VWAT7A30E Got this Volkswagen that we need to get to pass emissions. Problem is it is setting a P0341-Cam sensor performance code. Also sets a P0016-Cam/crank correlation code after a while as well. On most cold starts you hear a timing chain rattle that sounds like you... |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2007 Dodge Ram 2500 SLT 6.7L 5th gear VIN: 3D7KS29A47 Hello all! Sorry about the delay in getting this closed out.. we ended up replacing the trans with a Jasper Reman. And all seems well. Thanks again for all yalls help!! |
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| 1999 Ford F-250 Super Duty XLT 7.3L Excessive Emissions, No Start, Stall, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1FTNX21F7X I'm still waiting to get my PCM from being repaired. I don't know why it's taking so long so I'm closing this request without a fix for now.I will respond to all once I receive it. Thanks for all responses. Trouble codes: P1746 (Epc driver failure), P0571 (Brake switch). |
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| 2000 GMC Yukon Denali 5.7L MIL Lamp on, False misfire code VIN: 1GKEK13RXY Just to clarify, this is an older body style with the Vortec 350 with a distributor and the spider style injection. Apologies if that wasn't clear in the post. Many of you mentioned the crank relearn. One said "even if it's been done before". Which it had ... |
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| 1996 Land Rover Discovery SD 4.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: SALJY1281T Due to the infrequency of hesitation,I am not 100% certain of the fix.I replaced the fuel pump.Pump looked like it was there a long time,owner said he can't remember replacing it.Examined inside of tank while pump was removed and was clean and free of foreign ... Trouble codes: P0300 (Engine misfire), P0305 (Misfirecylinder 5), P1316 (misfire causing excessive emissions). |
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| 2009 Mazda CX-7 Touring 2.3L MIL Lamp on VIN: JM3ER29L59 First of all, thanks so much! I am aware that 99 times out of 100 this problem would be valve timing even slightly off. I goofed once and I was so sure the timing was correct this time. As suggested,I scoped the CKP and CMP sensors and noticed a slight drop of... Trouble codes: P0016 (Cmp/Ckp sensor correlation). |
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| 2013 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring 3.7L No remote start VIN: JM3TB3DV5D Finally got a look at this on Saturday. Thank you guys for all the good suggestions. As per Eugene, I printed out a manual for a 2007 CX9 and attempted to reprogram the system. At first it did not work. So I pulled the steering column cover and there it was. T... |
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| 2011 Nissan Altima 2.5L Mechanical VIN: 1N4AL2AP8B After the replies, and talking with Nissan, we decided to go with a new trans, cvt works great Thank you for your help |
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| 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder 1.8L Strong Fuel Smell VIN: JTDFR32051 Yay!! Problem child gone. The consensus was correct about this being normal for this system to vent at the filler neck. As for the exterior fuel smell, I haven't smelled anything abnormal after reassembling and delivering to customer. This is one of those t... |
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