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Old 05-03-2012, 10:47 PM   #1
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MAF? Maybe, but so far I have never had a CEL. Then again I have never hooked up a reader just to make sure. But the CEL light does come on when I switch on the the key, just like all the other lights under the gauges. So I would think that it does work and no one has disabled it.
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Old 05-04-2012, 03:10 AM   #2
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Did you retrieve any codes? Bad spark can cause the same, maybe one of the coils how old are the plugs? A can of techron couldn't hurt.

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Old 05-04-2012, 06:58 AM   #3
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MAF? Maybe, but so far I have never had a CEL. Then again I have never hooked up a reader just to make sure. But the CEL light does come on when I switch on the the key, just like all the other lights under the gauges. So I would think that it does work and no one has disabled it.
That is the first step in diagnosing these cars. Get it hooked up to a scanner and see what is going on.
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