I'd like to get at least another year from this car before taking it for scrap... (bang) So I'd like to get it working without replacing various components randomly. I've had the car sitting for about a year and would like to put it back on the road now that I paid the registration and insurance)
I'm seeing several issues
- I can start OK, but if I let the RPMs drop, the engine stalls
- when I keep the pedal steady in lower RPMs, I find that the RPMs fluctuate about 200/300
- If I've let the car warm up and don't let the rpms drop too quickly I find that sometimes engine doesn't die
- I cannot read the OBDII codes, as the scanner(s) cannot connect
I tried to do a seafoam treatminet, but I only used one can.
I'm thinking I should do a second can before I do the oil change. I have not seen the kind of smoke advertised, and not much is coming out of the muffler (not nothing, but I do wonder if the cat is plugged, I did see a feather that looks like it came out of the muffler, weird...)
I do have reasons to believe that the cat could have issues, such as the rattling and the shield falling off.
I swapped the spark plugs, as mine looked pretty old, but that made no difference
I've replaced the EGR not too long ago (2 years), I'll give that another cleaning.
I've looked at the vacuum lines and cannot find a leak, but that does not rule it out.
lastly I am not able to link the OBDII scanner. Any chance this could be a bad ECU, any recommended way of fixing this?
(I have replaced the main fuse just recently and see that the interior light fuse needs replacing, could this be related? )
I'm seeing several issues
- I can start OK, but if I let the RPMs drop, the engine stalls
- when I keep the pedal steady in lower RPMs, I find that the RPMs fluctuate about 200/300
- If I've let the car warm up and don't let the rpms drop too quickly I find that sometimes engine doesn't die
- I cannot read the OBDII codes, as the scanner(s) cannot connect
I tried to do a seafoam treatminet, but I only used one can.
I'm thinking I should do a second can before I do the oil change. I have not seen the kind of smoke advertised, and not much is coming out of the muffler (not nothing, but I do wonder if the cat is plugged, I did see a feather that looks like it came out of the muffler, weird...)
I do have reasons to believe that the cat could have issues, such as the rattling and the shield falling off.
I swapped the spark plugs, as mine looked pretty old, but that made no difference
I've replaced the EGR not too long ago (2 years), I'll give that another cleaning.
I've looked at the vacuum lines and cannot find a leak, but that does not rule it out.
lastly I am not able to link the OBDII scanner. Any chance this could be a bad ECU, any recommended way of fixing this?
(I have replaced the main fuse just recently and see that the interior light fuse needs replacing, could this be related? )
