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| 2004 BMW 325Ci 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: WBABW33464 I never thought I would ever be asking for help on an E46 M54, yet here I am. This car has been in multiple times. Started with misfires and lean conditions on both banks. Easy, I thought, coils, plugs, and CCV system. Did all that, thought it was fixed. S... Trouble codes: P0171 (System lean Bank 1) |
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| 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4.8L Inter. no crank VIN: 1GCEK14VX3 Noticed the key fobs stopped working . A few days later, no cranking. Checked all fuses, and scanned for codes. Since the FOBS stopped working , I thought BCM. However, there were no BCM codes. The codes I retrieved were,u1026 loss of class 2 comm. u1041 l... |
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| 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD LTZ 6.6L Excessive Emissions VIN: 1GC1KYE87C Customer complaint is that during hard accelerations occasionally puffs of white smoke will come out the exhaust. It doesn't do it all the time just every once in a while. It has a DuraMileage box installed on it. Thank u guys and girls for any input on th... |
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| 2004 Chrysler Sebring GTC 2.7L Ignition system VIN: 1C3EL75R84 We had a vehicle towed to us from another shop. Story is the customer brought them the vehicle with a horrible engine knock. They didn't have time to replace the engine so they subbed it out to another shop. That shop put a junk yard engine in the vehicle ... |
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| 1999 Dodge Ram 3500 5.9L Cuts out VIN: 1B7MF3360X I'm looking for some confirmation on this truck. truck came in with complaint of falling on its face when accelerating. checked codes and found the previously stated codes stored in pcm. Test drive and verified the complaint cleared the codes and the P1693... Trouble codes: P0216 (Fuel inj. Timing failure), P1690 (Ckp sensor does not agree with ecm ckp sensor), P1693 (Dtc detected in companion jtec mod.) |
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| 1997 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 5.4L Poor Idle Quality VIN: 1FMFU18L4V So here's what we've got... after its warmed up this thing starts and runs great for 30 seconds to 1 min and then drops out of closed loop and runs like crap and occasionally dies. when this happens the only pid correlation i see is stft drops to 0, loop g... Trouble codes: P0171, P0174 |
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| 2005 Ford F-150 FX4 5.4L Surge VIN: 1FTPW14585 This one has me scratching my head. The truck came in with a complaint of surging when hot. I went and drove the truck after about 10 miles the problem started. Truck idles fine, when you accelerate the truck surged and i was getting what sounded like spar... |
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| 2008 GMC Yukon XL 1500 SLE 5.3L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Surge, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy VIN: 1GKFK16308 No issues for 2 months after engine replacement, 2 weeks ago customer stopped explained loss of power, no throttle. Then ran fine. No codes, No issues found. Monday customer stopped engine, surge, no power, Sulfur exhaust smell - HOT. Customer left truc... Trouble codes: P0134 |
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| 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid 3.0L engine VIN: JHMCN36415 hi everybody and thank you in advance for your time and ideas that you may want to share with me. I have in the shop this Honda that the customer complains has intermittent engine overheats while it's driving up the hill or in traffic. With the a/c on it's... |
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| 2009 Honda Accord EX 2.4L Misfire VIN: 1HGCP25759 First, thank you to everyone who reads this long post and any help you can give. I am lost on this one. This has been going on for awhile. Customer complained of no power at times, intermittent. I installed a battery and clean the grounds. Ran a redundant ... Trouble codes: P0301 (misfire 1), P0302 (misfire 2), P0303 (misfire 3), P0304 (misfire 4), P0300 (random) |
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| 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS 2.7L cvvt VIN: 5NMSG13D48 The car is in tdc the cams & crank are perfectly ligned up. The rear where the tc are the vvt by radiator has a raised mark that is centered with the chains, but the rear bank is off @45 degrees towards the cowl, bad cvvt?, what is the alignment? cant find... |
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| 2011 Hyundai Elantra GLS 1.8L Surge, Cuts out VIN: 5NPDH4AE3B When this car hits 2900 RPMs, my best description is, its similar to hitting a rev limiter. But you can push through and it revs fine. its consistent, load or no load. It went to the dealer for an airbag module flash and i asked them to check this issue ou... |
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| 2011 Hyundai Elantra GLS 1.8L Surge, Cuts out VIN: 5NPDH4AE3B When this car hits 2900 RPMs, my best description is, its similar to hitting a rev limiter. But you can push through and it revs fine. its consistent, load or no load. It went to the dealer for an airbag module flash and i asked them to check this issue ou... |
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| 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 5.7L transmission temperature exceeded VIN: 1J4HR58255 The operating transmission temperature measured by Snap On scanner measure 78 to 80 deg.C. After 10-20 minutes drive the temperature breathing jumps in 1 second 140°C. On the dash display appears message :“transmission temperature exceeded”. I can hear sli... |
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| 2007 Jeep Compass Limited 2.4L No Start VIN: 1J8FF57W67 Car died backing out of driveway and was towed in. When we turn and hold the key to the start position the starter quickly engages then disengages: chunk, chunk, chunk. But even if we put a jumper wire to the starter so the starter turns over correctly, th... |
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| 1999 Mercedes-Benz E300 3.0L Surge, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: WDBJF25H6X Help mb techs! we have the two year only 300td. It has the "606" engine.the car really has 66k, it idles poorly, surges and sets a p0300. What we found is a significant amount of air is in the supply line to the pump.we replaced injectors, and replaced all... Trouble codes: P0300 (Random misfires) |
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| 2006 Mercedes-Benz SL500 5.0L Top,srs,wipers,H/L radio VIN: WDBSK75F16 Hello guys, thank you in advance for responding to my post.I have this 2006 Mercedes SL500 in my shop, and problem is intermittent operation of some of the component, when I start the car everything clears in the cluster except SRS light and symbol for the... |
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| 2011 Nissan Frontier S 2.5L No Start VIN: 1N6AD0ER1B 2011 Nissan Frontier with a 4.0L engine. Vehicle was towed in as no start. There are no DTCs present. All modules will communicate with scan tool. New battery installed. Have B+ voltage from ecm relay at coils, ckp, cmp sensors. Scoped CKP and bank 1 CMP s... |
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| 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX 2.5L MIL Lamp on VIN: JF1GG79686 car has a hard code p1096 i have checked voltage across the connector on both tumble motor harness connectors both have 3 to 4 volts applied to them briefly when the ignition is cycled on. ohm tested right side motor at 20 ohms left is 99 ohms so i replace... Trouble codes: P1096 |
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| 2001 Toyota RAV4 2.0L Hesitation, Cuts out, Stall VIN: JTEGH20V51 I know someone has seen this problem before because I found the exact symptoms on Google with no fix. The EFI3 fuse blows. It only does it with the A/C on and when accelerated off idle. Just as the fuse blows, the P0100 and P0505 get set. I thought ... Trouble codes: P0100 (p0505-), P0505 (testing and results) |
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Fixes & Summaries for All Makes and Models
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| 2008 Dodge Nitro SXT 3.7L Abs VIN: 1D8GU28K98 This one is fixed. apparently the original pump unit was bad when the module was replaced, and it caused the new module to fail. Replaced the module, dealer warrantied it for us, programmed it and all is good. If this kind of problem happens here again, both m... |
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| 1996 Honda Accord EX 2.2L v-tec VIN: 1HGCD7164T thank you everyone for your input... i have won the battle and another engine is on the way.. thanks again everyone for your time |
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| 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 3.6L No Start, Nothing work VIN: 1C4RJEAG0C FINALLY IT FIXED. JUST 2 MORE ASPIRIN LEFT. ON THE FRONT PASSENGER KICK PANEL, REMOVE THE GREY WIRE CONNECTOR WITH A 10 MM SOCKET. AT THE CORNER, THERE IS LOOSE MALE WIRE CONNECTOR ( YELLOW WITH WHITE STRIP NEXT TO BROWN WITH RED STRIP WIRE ). PUSH THE PIN I... Trouble codes: U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake), U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake), U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake), U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake), U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake), U0121 (Lost communication anti lock brake). |
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| 2010 Mazda 5 Grand Touring 2.3L Front end VIN: JM1CR2W31A Most replies were to look closely at the struts. I could not condemn the struts at this point. Customer actually was more concerned about the steering wheel shaking at stops. New mounts solved that. I am sure we will see this one again, hopefully it will be mo... |
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| 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 Bluetec 4Matic 2.1L limp mode? VIN: WDCGG0EB7E The customer had unrelated damage on his vehicle and it is in a body shop so I haven't been able to get this truck back in time for the close dead line. I thing Barry nailed my problem with the pluged EGR idea. He said he had one doing the same thing. I don't ... Trouble codes: P0101. |
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| 2006 Mini Cooper S 1.6L 1-2 2-3 shift VIN: WMWRH33506 Group vehicle is repaired. The consensus was a bad valve body. I talked with my supplier and they would not repair it. They just decided to send me a lower mile unit. Once it was installed vehicle did great. Thank you for the three replies! Have a great father... |
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| 2002 Nissan Quest GLE 3.3L No Start VIN: 4N2ZN17T22 Ty to all who replied. this was a mess but thanks to Kevin [...] I was pointed in the right direction. The start signal to the ecm was battery voltage for 2 to 4 seconds it then droped down to 3.5-6.9 volts.the problem ended up being a poor wiring repair near t... |
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| 2008 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.4L reverse VIN: JTMBD31V28 Regarding the reverse issue, we followed the suggestions to add fluid, with no improvement. We have not yet coordinated with the customer for more testing. The plan is to monitor line pressure & then probably inspect the valve body for bore wear. If a valve bo... |
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