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Mason,Jul 4 2009, 12:46 AM Wrote:

Focus man, Focus.,Jul 3 2009, 07:44 PM Wrote:I think you need to take a step back for a minute.  You keep throwing money at your car replacing 1 or 2 pieces at a time attempting to diagnose one of many problems.  Maybe, just maybe try taking it in, somewhere and have them find the issue and fix it.  It will probably be a bit of coin to have that done but in the end you wont be replacing everything 1 piece at a time.  Just a thought.  May or may not work for you, just a suggestion.
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Well what is the diff if you do it and it costs u a little or you pay them to do the same thing ant itcosts u more.
With out an engine light chase a problem is all you can do.
And out side of talk about normal things that he should be doing anyway or things to look at that wont cost him anything but a little of his time I havnt seen him toss money at anything.
;)
Anyway if your sure the problem got better when you moved the intake around check the hoses off the intake and the tube for damage or cracks. While you have
it off take a good look at the intake manifold, and the hose for the air breather.

Uhhh other then that I cant think of anything eles.
let me know how it looks :lol:
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Well he's already replaced the DPFE which turned out not to be the problem ... and now he's thinking of replacing the EGR. If you buy those two pieces at a Canadian dealer they'll run you 360 bucks with taxes.

OTH - my dealer charges 50 to diagnose a problem (zero if they fix it) and there might be some shops that would do it for a lot less.

I agree - first check those things that only take your time to do it ... but there's also the issue of expertise here (no offense Kona) - and in terms of diagnosing a problem like this there is no amount of time or effort that will replace it.

If it were me, I would have checked everything I knew to check first without replacing components ... and if I couldn't figure it out at that point I wouldn't screw around with it ... I'd pay an expert to tell me what the problem was.

Just my .02 FWIW.