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Old October 17th 05, 07:17 PM
Christopher Muto
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Default Stuttering and check engine light

ugh. sorry for the confusion. and thanks for pointing out my error.

"Dana H. Myers" > wrote in message
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> Christopher Muto wrote:
>> 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.

>
> 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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