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2001 Ford F-150 XL 5.4L Readiness monitors VIN: 1FTRF18L31
The catalyst monitor (and subsequently EVAP) will not run and code P1000 Monitor Testing Not Complete is stored. The vehicle has been driven through the recommended drive cycle numerous times (literally driven for months) and the cat will not run. There ar... Trouble codes: P1000 (Monitor Testing Not Complete)
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2013 Ford Taurus Limited 3.5L Misfire VIN: 1FAHP2KT4D
Help! I just did a water pump on this vehicle, reused timing chain and components, and yes timing marks were/are correct. At first start after reassembly I had a dead miss on cylinder 6. I watched it on the scanner. Did coil swapping, plug swapping etc. Fi...
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2002 Subaru Impreza WRX 2.0L Poor Idle Quality, Stall VIN: JF1GD29682
This is a family member's car so I had some time to play around with it. Here is what's going on. It had some driveability issues including bog on trying to go to boost, somewhat poor idle and occasional stall. When I first looked at it, I had -25% STFT an...
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2001 Toyota Tacoma Pre Runner 3.4L Misfire VIN: 5TEGN92NX1
Car had timing belt and water pump replacement 2 months ago. Recently popped up P0300. Cleared 3 times and retuned. Freeze frame datas(all 3 times) all collected with ECT at 100F ish. Customer stated occasionally, car will run very rough during the 1st sta... Trouble codes: P0300 (Random misfire)
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2006 Volkswagen Jetta Value Edition 2.5L OBD Communication VIN: 3VWPF71K06
Generic OBD communication - This vehicle is from another shop. When they took the state emission test it came back with all N/A for the monitors. When I hook up my scanner it auto connects using ISO 15765-4 CAN in which I see all the monitors correctly (Al...
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2002 Acura MDX 3.5L door latch VIN: 2HNYD18212
I ended up cutting an access panel in the B pillar and freeing the striker plate. I spent way too much time trying to do this a bit less destructively, but it was a bit of a challenge and I thought that I could get this to release. I did learn some new ways ...
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2008 Land Rover LR3 SE 4.4L latch VIN: SALAE25468
Thanks, Andy and Caleb. Yes; removing the external door handle and the attached mechanism inside the door, along with the latch, allowed easy access to the two cables I was trying to disconnect. Once transferred to the new latch, everything goes back into the ...
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1996 Lexus LX450 4.5L Unknown VIN: JT6HJ88J9T
Thank you for all the great inputs. We found a lot of corrosion on body harness connector under right side kick panel. Clean & advice customer vehicle more likely has water leak & we can only clean connector we can get access [...]. Customer understand & decide n...
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2010 Mercury Mariner Premier 3.0L rear differential? VIN: 4M2CN9HG1A
ended up being a bad viscous clutch. i got a used differential assembly from LKQ. sort of took a gamble on this one and it worked out great. Mitchel claims this repair to be 10 hours. fyi, you can pop the cv axles loose and slide the differential out the rear ...
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1984 Nissan 300ZX 2 2 3.0L head lights VIN: JN1HZ14S8E
Thanks to all that replied! After finding out that the head light switch did not go through a series of relays as Alldata stated, and the switch was wired directly to the headlights, I was able to confirm that I was losing power intermittently and randomly thr...
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1998 Nissan 200SX 1.6L compression VIN: 1N4AB42D0W
Thanks for all the replies. If I told all my customers to get a new car because they surpassed 200k... As it turned out the VVT circuit includes the distributor. There was over lap when I checked compression. I had an intermittent spark then none. Replaced t...
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