Loafers Nook - Proudly Voting Kermie
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Saturday, April 1, 2006 19:05
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That could be many things, My first thought is perhaps Fuel injector. There are little bits that get dirty and collect deposits that need to be cleaned. Using a higher grade fuel on occassion and adding those cleaners to the tank on occassion can help with that. But, I'd let a pro look at it. My knowlege of cars and various problems is less than vast.
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*sigh*
I don't want to take my car into the shop. It's so gorram expensive and I'm soooo close to having enough money saved to buy my ticket to London.
It figures something expensive would happen now to mess up my carefully laid plans. Grrr.
I'll try one of those additive things. I just filled up my tank.
You know, I'm kinda proud of myself. When I was sitting at the light, listing to my car go VROOooOOmm over and over, my thought was that there was something wrong with the fuel injection system.
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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Well, yesterday, when I was at a stop light, the engine was kind of revving and slowing down. The RPM needle was moving up and down, up and down, just a little bit, but in a steady rhythm along with the engine. It's fine when we're moving, it was only doing that when it was idle.
I have a 96 Saturn SL1 (see, those are numbers I can remember.)
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Lying on floor & comfy.
I know cars. It's one of my many day jobs.
Is your check engine light on? Open your hood with the engine running and listen for a whistleing noise. Let me know if you do. I'll have more questions and maybe some answers in a while.
Scorpion Regent
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Stop wiggling so much!
The check engine light is not on (but that doesn't mean anything, it's a very unpredictable light). I'll go listen for whistling later.
I'm hoping it's an easy fix. Earlier this year, when I decided to go to S3, I had a talk with my car. I told it that it was not allowed to have any expensive problems this year. It had a tune up not too terribly long ago and I keep its fluids checked and filled and all that. So, it needs to do it's job and not have any major malfunctions. We have an agreement!
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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Stop wiggling so much!
The check engine light is not on (but that doesn't mean anything, it's a very unpredictable light). I'll go listen for whistling later.
I'm hoping it's an easy fix. Earlier this year, when I decided to go to S3, I had a talk with my car. I told it that it was not allowed to have any expensive problems this year. It had a tune up not too terribly long ago and I keep its fluids checked and filled and all that. So, it needs to do it's job and not have any major malfunctions. We have an agreement!
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/
The check engine light comes on when the computer has problems with any of the actuators or sensors attached to the engine. It should really read "Seek technical support" because your engine will always be there, no matter what. You too have agreement eh.
Remember how I mentioned how people anthropomorhphize things.
Scorpion Regent
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Remember how I said I only anthropomorphize cars, guitars and copy machines? Oh, and vacuum cleaners. Because they're evil.
I think that the sensory thing on my check engine light is messed up because it would come on, I'd take it to the shop, they'd read it and it'd be some old thing from 2 months ago that I already had fixed. Or it was nothing. But it hasn't come on, so I don't know what to think. But I will go listen for whistling later. I will. Right now I have to do some actual work (gasp, shock)
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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CMS, I hate to break into this fun car conversation with another topic, but I'm going to anyway.
I just looked at your livejournal and how cool is it?! I especially like your mood pics. Wow, you've got Princess Bride, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Serenity, Peanuts, and Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehl) all together (plus a few others that I recognize but can't name)! Your pic of Sean is especially appealing. I'm partial to Nathan, myself, but that pic made me look twice.
*Mattie takes a deep breath and lets out a looong sigh of contentment*
I knew I loved fff.net for a good reason!
Wacky fun!
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I like her lj thingy too. Very pretty colors.
Ash
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Well, thank you very much. I'm glad you like it. I have fun with it. I am an icon ADDICT. And I stole the Sean icon from PsychicRiver. Shhh, don't tell!
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