bad coil packs?
#1
bad coil packs?
well my car feels like it hesitates. its been getting worse since i bought the car about a month and half ago. it will have its moments where it will idle really low and just shake the whole car and sound like a subaru almost. i have 90k miles on an 03. friends dad has a shop and told me it could possibly be the coil packs are going bad. that they usually go bad around 100k but maybe my car has just been ragged out. please help
#2
technically there isn't a difference between 90k or 100k miles, it's not like a switch where they fail at an exact mileage. As you approach 100k miles you should expect some or all of the coil packs to fail, so you are a good candidate for some bad coilpacks. The Subaru sound you mention indicates one cylinder that is not getting proper spark or fuel. The idle issues could be a map going bad or the Idle air control valve. Do a search on bad coilpacks and injectors and map sensor, idle valve to figure out how to diagnose the problems. These are all common problems people have posted on here.
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Originally Posted by Frankenstiein_B20,Feb 27 2010, 04:50 PM
by any chance it wouldnt throw a CEL would it
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Similar thing happened to me, but it was the spark plug gaps had opened too wide due to overheating causing the electrode to soften and open the gap over time. Replaced spark plugs with new properly gapped plugs and problems disappeared. HTH
#9
Originally Posted by ronnuke,Mar 1 2010, 02:40 PM
Similar thing happened to me, but it was the spark plug gaps had opened too wide due to overheating causing the electrode to soften and open the gap over time. Replaced spark plugs with new properly gapped plugs and problems disappeared. HTH
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