Thread: Engine chuggin

Ha, I have the same problem, except mine came after switching to MSD spark wires... I changed back to Stock plugs now. No service engine light or nothing, but it's definetly missing big time. Now its at the Dealer and I'm about to get F'd in the A in cost. just great

Well i feel really Fn dumb. It ended up being a messed up plug wire- I changed to MSD's and must have somehow misdone one of them in the back, and so I then switched back to stocks, but it made no difference because I already had screwed up the order so it was missing big time. Now $200 later, I guess it was a good thing I brought it in cause I'm having the ABS/Tire press lights fixed and the recalls are getting done- So thats the good end of the deal, the bad part is I probably spent $100-$150 in them diagnosing the plug wire malfunction. I JUST GOT SERVED...

and now i get to drop around another $600 amount due to the fact that the backside of the intake was leaking anti-freeze, and eventually with the colder temp approaching, it would crack completely and drop into the cylinders, so it's a good thing i caught it now rather then later, cause it would have been done for. In response to whoever said that synthetic is not worth running in our cars because they are "3k cars", I totally disagree because of the fact that my car has over 1.5gs in just the motor and struts (no performance in this). So I think it depends on your views and what you think your car is worth- for example I am going to run synthetic because I want the motor to run as long as possible (at least for right now) because I would rather stick money into looks and performance then into fixing, as I also have to be saving for school - just my opinion