Well, I got some work done on the car today, and we have progress. My girlfriend’s sister’s fiance is a mechanic, and he did me the favor of running the Beastie through his scanners to find out that there is a problem in the timing and I had a bad fuel injector.<\/p>\n
No, boys and girls, those are not the ignition coils like I had expected. This is good, because those things are a bitch to replace.<\/p>\n
Anywho, he replaced the injector for me and reset all the trouble codes in the car’s memory. I’ll drive it for a few days and see where that gets me – there’s still a chance something has gone wrong with one or two of the sensors, and I need to build some more symptomatic data before a diagnosis can be accurate.<\/p>\n
The good news is that the car starts every time I turn the key again, but on the way home there was some sputtering and missing whenever I accelerated from a low RPM range. Hopefully this will smooth out as the car gains usage data and reprograms itself for the replaced injector.<\/p>\n
Modern diagnostic bonuses aside, I still miss the days of simple engines.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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