cb1111
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- Virginia, USA
I'll start:
I bought a new 1996 Yukon. Great car but my local speed shop (this was before Google and Altavista and Ask Jeeves were the search engines) recommended that I install a performance ignition kit that also included all new wires.
I noticed no difference but talked myself into thinking it made a difference in gas mileage.
At about 90k miles the car didn't start. I towed it to a garage and they diagnosed a faulty fuel pump. The pump worked but it was intermittent so a new one went in.
A few weeks later it stopped again. This time in the parking garage at work. Two tow trucks showed up to get me out - the first to get me out of the garage and the second to drag me to the dealer. The next morning the dealer calls and tells me - all is OK, it started right up. We checked it through and found a slightly loose ground.
A week later it wouldn't start when I came out of the supermarket. It started the next morning at the dealer.
A short while later I had a bit of stumbling going up hills. Dealer diagnosed a bad fuel pump again, but decided to hook me up to a diagnostic tool for a few weeks. They saw the stumbling but couldn't track it down.
They change to pump again. A week later the same problem.
The dealer has given up, I'm pulling my hair out because it can be running perfectly one minute, get shut off and won't start again.
Long story short, it was the distributor cap cable from that super-duper ignition kit that went bad.
Probably cost me $1000 in diagnostics and unnecessary repairs.
I bought a new 1996 Yukon. Great car but my local speed shop (this was before Google and Altavista and Ask Jeeves were the search engines) recommended that I install a performance ignition kit that also included all new wires.
I noticed no difference but talked myself into thinking it made a difference in gas mileage.
At about 90k miles the car didn't start. I towed it to a garage and they diagnosed a faulty fuel pump. The pump worked but it was intermittent so a new one went in.
A few weeks later it stopped again. This time in the parking garage at work. Two tow trucks showed up to get me out - the first to get me out of the garage and the second to drag me to the dealer. The next morning the dealer calls and tells me - all is OK, it started right up. We checked it through and found a slightly loose ground.
A week later it wouldn't start when I came out of the supermarket. It started the next morning at the dealer.
A short while later I had a bit of stumbling going up hills. Dealer diagnosed a bad fuel pump again, but decided to hook me up to a diagnostic tool for a few weeks. They saw the stumbling but couldn't track it down.
They change to pump again. A week later the same problem.
The dealer has given up, I'm pulling my hair out because it can be running perfectly one minute, get shut off and won't start again.
Long story short, it was the distributor cap cable from that super-duper ignition kit that went bad.
Probably cost me $1000 in diagnostics and unnecessary repairs.
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