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Old Oct 28, 2007 | 10:54 PM
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check engine light on

my check engine light is on
and it says five of my cylinders are misfireing.
does this happend 2 anyone?
please let me know if know how 2 fix this.
thanks
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 12:10 AM
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It's probably just one. Most likely you have a defective coil. The way you find it is by using a known good coil and removing one at a time and putting in the test coil and see if it goes away. Still nothing? Move on to the next coil and so on until you find it.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 12:42 AM
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thats the solution
buy 1 coilpack ~$50, and keep trying it on each cylinder until the car runs right
Those things are like light bulbs, work fine one minute- then shut the thing off and turn it back---whooops
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 07:16 AM
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I just had this fixed this weekend. The dealer told me that my cylinders were giving random misfires so they "reinitialized" my spark plugs and coils. Is there any change in performance? My car was running poorly throughout the first half of the week and it suddenly became decent again before I took it to the dealership. Now it is running like a first class stallion. How many miles are on your car?
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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Yea, either coil packs or one of the plugs is bad, but that's not very likely. More likely that it's one of the coil packs.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 03:12 PM
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if it says five. maybe your 5th cylinder is misfiring. thats what happened on my sister's v6 accord.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 03:34 PM
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the typical code on a TL says 3 cylinders are out when its just 1 coil-
you have to play trial and error with them, the codes have no real relavance to life
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