Floyd Rogers wrote:
> "mark barron" <mbarron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Car has 90,000 miles. I run with 89 octane or better almost all the
time.
>> This was definitely true for this last incident today.
>> I have had the car about 13 months. The first misfire codes (Cyl #2 and
>> Cyl #5) occurred at fairly high revs in 2nd gear in last October. Since
>> them I have have
>> same error codes on same cylinders about 3 times. I stored the car from
>> Jan 1 to March 15. Today for the first time I found a misfire cyl#1
code.
>> The car goes into Limp Home Mode and then seems to reset itself, if I
turn
>> the ignition off for a couple minutes. Seems to me the likeliest
>> candidates
>> are the coil, plug and the connector between the two. But now that it
has
>> affected three different cylinders, I am thinking maybe it has to
>> be something upstream of the coils? I don't like that thought.
>> Any thoughts? Many Thanks, Mark
>
> The spark plugs are 100K items and you're really close to that.
> IME, 60K is a better interval - my mileage improved markedly
> after changing them at 120K (were changed originally at 60K).
>
> FloydR
>
>
Dear Floyd,
I thank you so much for taking the time to reply. Being a novice,
I can not figure out what the 'IME' is after search both Bentley Volumes
and using Google searches. I thought it might be Ignition Monitoring
somethingorother, but that theory has not produced a module with that
acronym. Could it be the lambda sensor?
Thanks again. I will have new plugs tomorrow. I have one new coil and
one new coil-to-plug connector to use in tests. Obviously, I will
carefully examine differences in the six coil-plug assemblies.
Mark
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