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| 2004 Audi A4 Quattro 1.8L Low Oil Level Warnin VIN: WAULC68EX4 This Audi has a yellow low oil level warning light that comes on as soon as it is engaged into gear (drive or reverse) and which stays on, along with occasional warning chime as long as you drive. Oil is full - we drained and refilled 5 quarts of oil when ... |
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| 1988 Chevrolet Corvette 35th Anniversary Edition 5.7L Poor Idle Quality, MIL Lamp on VIN: 1G1YY2183J Hi all in IATN land. I need some confirmation or other tests to repair this Vette. I have monitored the voltage on the burn off circuit, 12 volt supply circuit and the sens circuit. Burn off and supply go to 12 volts during burn off. Sens circuit goes to 4... Trouble codes: 36 (Burn off code) |
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| 2016 Chevrolet Cruze LT 1.4L Wiring VIN: 1G1BE5SM0G Thanks for your time. Have a light hit 2016 Cruze LT that has suffered damage to the harness that runs on top of the front bumper reinforcement (looks like they hit a truck with a trailer hitch which caught the top of the reinforcement and the harness). Th... |
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| 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT 3.8L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2D4GP44L45 This vehicle starts pretty well when cold but can take a lot of cranking when warm. It idles ok but with a slight miss when cold and in park. When you put it in gear or it warms up it gets much worse. It really can't be driven. The owner tried but it began... Trouble codes: P0300 (Random misfire), P0301 (Cylinder 1 Misfire), P0306 (Cylinder 6 Misfire), P0335 (Crank Position Sensor-Ckt A), P0340 (Cam position sensor ckt) |
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| 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 Laramie 6.7L No Start VIN: 3D7KS28A37 This one was towed in. Customer stated he saw a water in fuel light in dash within 5 miles after fueling. Customer drained the water trapped in the fuel filter. WIF light went out. WIF light came back on within a few miles. Customer drained water trap seve... Trouble codes: P0137 (02 sensor circuit low voltage bank 1 sensor 2), P0037 (H02S Heater control circuit low bank 1 sensor 2) |
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| 2006 Ford F-150 XL 5.4L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on Vehicle came in rough idle misfire blinking mil i scanned the truck there was a number of codes some of which i listed i recorded them cleared them test drove immidiatetly misfire lack of power and blinking Mil i rechecked codes they were in this order p00... Trouble codes: 305 (306 -), 306 (300 -), 300 (0018 -), 0018 |
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| 2009 Ford Flex SE 3.5L Stabilizer end link VIN: 2FMDK53C69 This car first came to me 12/30/16 shortly after having been repaired at a collision shop. There was a knocking noise and strange handling, it was just a weird road feel. Having only had one strut replaced, I replaced the other strut as well as the stabili... |
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| 2010 Ford E-450 Super Duty 6.8L low power VIN: 1FDXE4FS0A This vehicle has a serious lack of power under load. It can hardly get over 50 mph. The engine runs smooth under all loads, it just won't accelerate. The MAF only reads 90 Grams at 4500 RPM's but the fuel trims are good and the O2's are cycling actively... |
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| 2011 Ford F-450 Super Duty XLT 6.7L Unknown VIN: 1FD9W4HT8B This 450 has transmission issues. The u0101 code is present in the engine and instrument panel modules. No communication with transmission control module with scanner. Truck will sometimes shift from 1st gear thru 6th but shifts hard each time. Sometime it... |
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| 2010 GMC Sierra 2500 HD SLE 6.6L wheel bearings? VIN: 1GT4K0B67A This one has me stumped. It sounds and behaves exactly like a front wheel bearing on the drivers side. But it isn't. Steer right and its noisy. Steer left and its quiet. Im runnning out of places to hook up the chassis ears to nail it down. It has two GM o... |
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| 2006 Mazda 5 Sport 2.3L no symptom VIN: JM1CR29L66 Vehicle came in with check engine light P2407. I looked up the DTC to figure out what common fix was but no seems to have had this DTC. Trouble codes: P2407 (Evap Leak), P2407 (Evap Leak) |
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| 2009 Mazda CX-7 Touring 2.3L MIL Lamp on VIN: JM3ER29369 One week after repair car comes back with MIL on. Client states that engine only fails driving at full throttle (holding pedal down for about 2 seconds). Codes come back quickly after erasing. The only live value constantly out of range is O2-sensor upstre... Trouble codes: P2178 (System Too Rich Off Idle), P2188 (System Too Rich at Idle) |
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| 2012 Mini Cooper Countryman S ALL4 1.6L No Start, MIL Lamp on VIN: WMWZC5C51C Thank you for helping with this one. Need some help and direction. This Mini was towed in to the shop as a crank, no start after a previous shop did a timing chain job on it. Verified that the cams turn and the engine has good compression and minimal leak ... Trouble codes: 0027D, 0027D, 002DD, 0036E, 00A0B |
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| 2008 Subaru Outback 2.5i 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: 4S4BP61C78 After replacing exhaust valve on left bank and driving 100 [...] keeps setting. changed both oil switches and solenoids but still get p2008. engine is in real good shape,does not consume oil and runs great. ive monitered the solenoids and pressure swi... Trouble codes: P0028 |
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| 1999 Toyota 4Runner 2.7L Excessive Emissions VIN: JT3GM84R2X Toyotas egr systems are not my favorite id take a linear egr valve any day. I've checked the vacuum switching valve which holds vacuum on port E then when energized/Batt+ it vents.Port F with vacuum gauge will hold vacuum with slow bleed down and then when... |
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| 2005 Toyota Tacoma 4.0L Poor Idle Quality, fast idle VIN: 5TEMU52N25 truck has a high idle, around 1100 to 1200 rpm in park, did a air induction service and also a idle relearn according to identifix ( remove efi and ect fuses for 2 to 5 minutes, install fuses , close throttle plate and turn key on ) , when we did that the ... |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2010 BMW X5 xDrive35d 3.0L Lighting VIN: 5UXFF0C56A Ok this one is done and gone. I apologize for the lack of info on the initial post. The issue ended up being a coding mismatch. Once the footwell module was correctly coded the warning went off. Thanx to all who took time out of their lives to put up with me. |
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| 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer LS 4.2L transmission VIN: 1GNDT13S84 Well thanks to everyone for the information.I found the service bulletin #04-07-30-022 that Jeff mentioned and as Jeff said our vehicle was built in Moraine and falls in the VIN breakpoint for the software update to cure harsh tranny engagement when cold.We h... |
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| 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser Touring 2.4L No Start, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: 3C4FY58834 So, I have been waiting to see how the dealer might fix this to include the fix in my closing. The customer called today, and after 3 weeks now, they are ordering a new wiring harness. We?ll see how that goes?I don?t think so. Here?s what I found after we a... Trouble codes: P0032, P0038. |
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| 2008 Ford Focus SE 2.0L as built data VIN: WF0MB24E28 hi there , thanks for every reply , thanks for help and your time , I cant get As Built data for Euro Ford . a good guy gave me a great help and send me the as built file from US site , but unfortunately it not didn't work for me. what I did is , I got ano... |
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| 2010 Ford F-150 FX4 5.4L Engine Noise VIN: 1FTFW1EV3A Well just about everyone said check oil pressure hot and the pressure needs to be at least 25 PSI. At idle the pressure was 20 PSI & at 2,000 RPM was 60 PSI. Told customer it needed a new engine and he had me put 10-30 in. It pushed the oil pressure to 23 PSI ... Trouble codes: P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1), P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1), P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1), P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1), P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1), P0012 (Intake Camshaft Position Timing-Over Retarted Bank 1). |
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| 2011 Ford F-150 Platinum 3.5L variable valve timing VIN: 1FTFW1ET6B Thank you to all who replied. After doing a ton of research, talking to Ford service person, more research. Retesting everything multiple times. I could find no answer. The customer (who is a engineer) and researched everything himself wanted us to install all... |
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| 2000 GMC C3500 Sierra SL 5.7L Mechanical VIN: 1GDJC34R2Y Kept being told that 2000 was a one year system and that we did not have the proper master cylinder by different suppliers. Old time parts man crossed number to a Dorman unit and we gave it one last try. Thanks to all that reminded me of scan tool bleeding. ... |
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| 2005 Toyota Camry 2.4L Hesitation, Surge, Stall, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 4T1BE32K75 Well the fuel sample I took wasn?t E85. The only problem is I don?t know what it was. Bad fuel. Got as much of it out as possible and filled it with premium. Changed the plugs again and a hard reset and it?s down the road again. Thanks again for responses and ... |
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