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Old October 17th 05, 08:58 PM
Dana H. Myers
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Default Stuttering and check engine light

Christopher Muto wrote:
> ugh. sorry for the confusion. and thanks for pointing out my error.


It could still be a bad coil, of course - I just don't know
how the 'new' coil-on-plug coils do compared to the 'old'
coils.


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> "Dana H. Myers" > wrote in message
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>>Christopher Muto wrote:
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>>>i was thinking the same thing... but also the fuel filter and the plugs
>>>are
>>>suspect. yet that doesn't explain why the check engine light has stayed
>>>on.
>>>it represents so many possible things that only the reader could point
>>>you
>>>in the right direction... something is not right. if i had to hazard a
>>>guess i might say it is a faulty coil pack. but if you didn't want to
>>>spend
>>>the time and money on dealer diagnostics the i suggest the removal of the
>>>spark plugs to see if they are fouled. plugs are cheap and they might be
>>>all that you need.

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>>The original poster has an '01, which doesn't feature the coil packs
>>of the '00 and earlier models. Instead, the '01 and later have two
>>coils which each plug directly down onto a spark plug; the tail of the
>>coil is fed to another plug with a single wire. I do not know if the
>>the coil-on-plug coils are more reliable than the previous coil-pack
>>coils, but my experience so far with an '02 is that the stock plug wires
>>die pretty quickly.
>>
>>Dana

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