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Old Jun 13, 2008 | 01:48 AM
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so i start the car all it does is idile real bad like everythin thing shakes hood is moving an such. it only does it at idile when u give it gas it runs fine but when its at idile running bad lil poping in exhaust an shaking the whole car at idile. iam buying new plugs an wires 2day to start fresh again an might buy a new map sensor since it was pretty dirty an when we un hook it nothing happen it didnt do anythnig with it plugd in or not is that bad? think it would be bad o2 sensors?
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so i start the car all it does is idile real bad like everythin thing shakes hood is moving an such. it only does it at idile when u give it gas it runs fine but when its at idile running bad lil poping in exhaust an shaking the whole car at idile. iam buying new plugs an wires 2day to start fresh again an might buy a new map sensor since it was pretty dirty an when we un hook it nothing happen it didnt do anythnig with it plugd in or not is that bad? think it would be bad o2 sensors?
no lights on?
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Old Jun 13, 2008 | 02:40 AM
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mines doin the same thing, got the code ran and came up as a bad bank one upstream o2, so im gnna replace those and put in a new set of plugs and wires...hopefully tht will fix it
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check the codes, they dont lie!
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take ur ar to auto zone and get the codes ran for free, tht way u will have an idea of wht ur dealing with
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