it only took 15 months and it's back

[shanneliszewski]

After working on my P5 fir 15 months my car is back and running great, it took 15 month due to money haveing a kid take alot of money away from fixing a car, but i was persistant and my P5 is back on the road with 150,000 i replaced

Spark Plugs
Coil Packs
Air intake tube
Mass Air Flow
EGR Valve
Temp Sensor
Input speed sensor(Pulse generator)
out put speed sensor
cleaned thottle body

all because my rpms would jump from 100 - 900 and the car would rapidly shake when in idle on the brake, and the O/D light would come on and flash, i had a crack in the air intake hose and the guy i had working on my car replace the output sensor and temp sensor which were perfectly fine just wasted my money when all i needed was the egr valve and input speed sensor and air intake hose, the spark plugs and coil packs were needed anyways. next is belts any thing else i should fix to make sure my baby last for another 100K?

[Wagonbacker9]

i assume a timing belt has been done?

[shanneliszewski]

nope but very soon, that is when i replace all the belts together

[i12drivemyMP5]

If your gonna do timing belt then you might as well do the tensioner or at least the spring, water pump & cam seals while your there.

[hondajunkie01]

If your gonna do timing belt then you might as well do the tensioner or at least the spring, water pump & cam seals while your there.

or you could just buy a water pump /timing belt kit haha
sorry the way you said it made it sound like so many things he needed to buy haha

[P-Funk!]

Why did it take 15 months (more than a year) to do 3 hours (max) in the driveway? And doing them one at a time might have revealed that the MAF was fine...

Anyhoo - glad it is back!

[shanneliszewski]

well when it tooka crap my wife was 3 month prego and i lost my job and i was doing handyman stuff on the side just to make ends meat, and then i moved out of state leaving my car at my parents and the guy who was suppose to fix it for me a mechanic friend that was going to do it on the side ended up dicking me around and fixing stuff that was not broke and screwed up my alarm and remote car starter yea so it sucked and i am a learn as i a go do it your selfer

[P-Funk!]

Wow. Well, like i said - at least it is good now.

I too started out as DITY'er and learned over the years. I wish forums like this were around for me 25+ yrs ago... [geeeze]