[99wolfie]

I am pretty sure my camshaft position sensors, eccentric shaft position sensor, or an ignition coil needs to be replaced.

I commute from Ajax to Mississauga everyday so I need to get the car running proper again. All my scanning items are in London as I just relocated here.

Can anyone pull the code for me today?

Symptoms:

Car was running fine, always has.
Came off of the 401, CEL came on, rough idle, horribly sluggish performance.
Turn car off and on, CEL gone, better performance, still crappy performance.


On my lunch hour I am going to pull the eccentric shaft position sensor and check for oil in hopes its one of the other two issues which are incredibly cheaper, haha

Thanks.

[99wolfie]

Scan complete.

Cylinder 1 misfire.

Spark plugs recently replaced 20k ago. Going to toss a new coil in, should be fine, I hope

[M.J.]

You find one? If so how much?

[dbworld4k]

Germanparts.ca in Woodbridge has them for around $35-40 last I checked.

[Briancanadiano]

Go to Ivo Columbus automotive He's on Dixie near princess auto, he'll pull it for you and get you running again fast and reasonably priced.

[99wolfie]

Issue still not fixed. Getting really frustrated with it.

I hate to think its my plugs as they were done 40 000km ago.
I am hoping it is not the VCG or eccentric sensor. Going to look more into it this week when I have a chance.

Going to pull the plugs and inspect them, I may replace them as well since they are out. Also going to swap the plug and coil from a working cylinder to see if the misfire moves. I have a little build up in the ignition coil chamber around the spark plug, no oil but possibly looks like carbon? When i removed a coil some moisture was present as well.

I also moved the coil from cyl 2 to cyl 1 and instead of the misfire moving, both threw a code for it. Whats worse is when I moved the coil back to cyl 2 it still misfires. So now I have 2 of 6 cylinders misfiring. Car is running like a diesel truck.

[99wolfie]

I just swapped cyl 3 and cyl 1 coils and no misfire on cyl 3 so the coil on cyl 1 would appear to be okay.

I purchased a new coil for cyl 2 and the misfire is gone.

I still have a misfire on cyl 1. I am thinking the spark plug just died prematurely with 40 000km? I will inspect the plugs when I remove them for any oil and do the VCG if required. Hopefully the plug just quit out early.


uhg.

[RideForeign]

I have that same issue just no codes a d it idles a little bit rough I have to do valve cover gasket All 6 coils and plugs plus eccentric valve sensor. Not gonna sit there trying to figure out what it is I'm just going to change all at once with no headaches

[99wolfie]

2 coil packs and a spark plug solved the issue..... well thats the short version anyways.

no need for all that other work and cost.