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	Help Request	Answers
	2003 Acura RSX 2.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Cuts out, Stall, MIL Lamp on vehicle came in for engine noise, the exhaust cam lobe surface began to deteriorate causing the noise, replaced both cams and chain tensioner, the noise was gone, now the fun start!!! after extended driving the vehicle only on decel will develope erratic idle ... Trouble codes: p0172 (fuel system rich).	View
	1993 Honda Accord 2.2L Starting hello and thanks for the help. this honda has a intermittent failure to start it cranks and will run so long as the key is in crank position, dies in run position can the main relay cause it to start during crank and then die in run position, hondas are not my...	View
	2000 Honda Accord 3.0L Cooling System Hello all, I have a problem that is confusing me. This car will overheat on a regular basis, on highway and in traffic. Fans do operate, coolant does flow and compression test is good, I do not believe that the head gaskets are bad, due to the 30psi over spec...	View
	2002 Honda Odyssey 3.5L Gas guage New sender, new guage. Both new from Honda. Intermittently drops to below empty and low fuel light comes on. Correct signal from guage to cluster. Where does power to guage come from? Multiplex unit? Alldata and Mitchell both near worthless for this. My b...	View
	2005 Honda Civic 1.7L Excessive Emissions, MIL Lamp on came in with heated o2 circuit error /sen. 1/. Open circuit on 3-4 wire. Replaced w/ denso unit. Now have P1172(P2A00). Check voltage at 3-4 of harness, 9.5v. Check 3 to gnd. = 12 v. Check 4 to gnd. & have 2.5 volts. Checked and cleans gnd. that I could find. Trouble codes: P2A00 (02 sensor circuit rangePerformance bank 1sen. 1).	View
	2003 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.7L Excessive Emissions, MIL Lamp on, evap purge circuit see above baffled why its intermittent any body seen this one before??? Trouble codes: po455 (evap purgeleak largeorrestriction).	View
	1990 Isuzu Trooper 2.8L No Start, Poor Idle Quality, Stall vehicle came in as a complete no start. found no spark.- bolts holding rotor on fell out and rotor wrecked itself and distributor cap. replaced and now have both fuel and spark and injector pulse. vehicle will start but runs horrible and will die unless gas pe... Trouble codes: 44 (map sensor circuit high).	View
	1995 Lexus ES 300 3.0L od i have a es 300 that wont go into od. during test drive od switch can be activated on and off; light on dash toggles and no change. current codes are 500-oss and 720-oss, both of these are partaining to the oss,but owner does not complain off erratic speedo et...	View
	2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse 3.0L MIL Lamp on we have two codes---cam and crank position sensor faults...the wiring for either engine looks the same...is there a difference between the two that would cause the ecm to not recognize the sensors on the new engine? This was a complete swap,,all the connectors... Trouble codes: p0340 (Cam sensor fault), p0335 (crank sensor fault).	View
	2001 Mitsubishi Montero Sport 3.0L Poor Idle Quality, MIL Lamp on AFTER REPAIRING THE P0300 THIS VEHICLE CAME BACK WITH A P0507 IDLE RPM HIGHER THAN EXPECTED.. VEHICLE STARTS UP FINE BUT IDLES AT 1200RPM WITH THE A/C OFF A/C ON VEHICLES STILL IDLES ABOUT 1000RPM. PERFORMED SMOKE TEST FOUND NO LEAKS ENGINE WAS WARM AT THAT TI... Trouble codes: PO5O7 (idle rpm higher than expected).	View
	1994 Nissan Altima 2.4L starts and dies car came in with no start. checked spark. none. replaced coil and got spark, but still no start. checked fuel pressure. none. replaced fuel pump. now have pressure. still no start. no code stored. found loose connector at dist. plugged in completely,car starte...	View
	1994 Nissan Pickup 2.4L master Client came in with a steel line leaking fuel behind tank. So he wanted all lines replace. After installation of lines and bleed brakes(by hand), when we started it back up vehicle now has a brake pedal that goes to the floor. We then bled brakes with a brake ...	View
	2002 Nissan Sentra 1.8L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on Thanks in advance, This vehicle is actually an Australian Nissan Pulsar, and has been passed onto me by another shop. Problem occurs very intermittantly (maybe once every one or two weeks) where vehicle will hesitate and misfire and set a P0340 for the camshaf... Trouble codes: P0340 (Camshaft position sensor malfunction).	View
	1999 Suzuki Grand Vitara 2.5L air bag Hi, Thank you in advance for your help. This Grand Vitara has an Air Bag light on. Manually pulled codes to get code b1022 (22). All of the testing I can find for this code state "Install Special Tool". Does anyone have a way of diagnosing without this "Specia...	View
	1994 Toyota 4Runner 3.0L missing bolts i am a bmw tech in need of some help. i realize this is a long shot but here goes. i am re-installing cylinder heads on this toyota 4 runner 3.0 after the first tech quit. i have 4 bolts that i can not for the life of me figure out where they go. there 2 ident...	View

Fixes & Summaries for Asian

	Fix/Summary	Answers
	2003 Honda Civic 1.3L vibration I received several responses stating the start clutch was the problem. I had the customer call the dealer to check for warrantee. Dealer said that the problem was the start clutch and that it should have been replaced no charge with the battery. Customer had n...	9
	2002 Hyundai Accent 1.6L No Start This is still the best tool in the box. Thanks go out to all that took their time to help and I hope to help you out in the future. The fix was the crank sensor. After Boris [...] responded yesterday I went ahead and checked powers and grounds, all good. The...	5
	1999 Kia Sephia 1.8L Electronic Great news today! Last week we installed both the output speed sensor and the input ratio sensors w/ new parts and flushed the transmission due to mileage requirements. My customer returned today after some lenghty test drives to report that the codes have not...	4
	2003 Kia Optima 2.7L Hesitation, Misfire, MIL Lamp on The customer needed his car back and being unable to reproduce any concern at this time, he took his car. Thank you for the help, so when he comes back in, which I guess he probably will, I have some new ideas on where to look. Thanks again! Trouble codes: P0560 (Battery back up line malfunction), P0340 (Camshaft position sensor circuit malfuntion), P0301 (Cyl 1 misfire).	5
	1995 Lexus LS 400 4.0L blower motor Thanks to Jim factory phone was turning the blower down to low speed uplugged factory phone problem is with phone module. thanks to everyone who replied. Frank [...].	5
	1999 Lexus LX 470 4.7L ride quallity hello everyone this is what i did which is what rod and greg suggested the pencil trick worked the accumulators in the front were bad the pencil went way in the rears were fine thanks for all the help i replaced the bad ones in the front and the things rides ...	3
	1998 Mitsubishi Diamante 3.5L Misfire I FOUND THAT MARK WAS RIGHT ,THEY MUST LIKE CHAMPION PLUGS . IT HAD NGKS IN IT. I REPLACED THE PLUGS AND IT FIXED THE PROBLEM . SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT I OVER LOOKED BECAUSE THEY WERE NEW. Trouble codes: po, 300 (cylinder missfire).	4
	2001 Nissan Pathfinder 3.5L Hesitation, Surge, Stall, Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on A new Mass Air Flow Sensor fixed the problem. That also was the general consensus of the techs who responded with their input. I did check fuel pressures and the voltage and particularly the ground wire at the MAF connector (seems like this is a common problem... Trouble codes: p0171 (Bank 1 running lean).	12
	1990 Subaru Loyale 1.8L MIL Lamp on THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP FELLAS , I HAVE TO CLOSE THIS REQUEST WITHOUT A FIX , AS THE CUSTOMER NEEDS THE CAR , IT WILL RETURN IN A WEEK OR SO TO FINISH, THERE WERE 2 CODES IN THE CAR. # 35= EVAP SOLENOID & #55 = EGR TEMP SENSOR ( OF WHICH THERE IS NOT ONE AND ... Trouble codes: 55 (egr. temp sensor).	7
	1998 Subaru Legacy 2.2L airbag THE CLOCKSPRING/MULTIFUNCTION SWITCH SOLVED BOTH THE AIRBAG PROBLEM AND THE INOPERATIVE HORN, THANKS FOR ALL HELP AS ALWAYS, BERNIE.	2
	2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5L int. lighting, radio, clock Thanks for the replies. As I stated in the update I had checked all fuses, under hood and in dash. James suggested that I feed power to were I should have Battery power. The easiest place to do this was at the CD/Radio, after power was applied everthing worked...	5
	1996 Toyota Tacoma 3.4L MIL Lamp on Thanks to all that posted help responces.I didn't get to finish this repair because I was in the process of working out my "notice".I have since moved to another garage.I did trace the wiring harness looking for a break or a crushed wire but found none.I also ... Trouble codes: P0135 (o2 heater circuit bank1 sensor1), P0130 (o2 circuit bank1 sensor1).	4

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