On the way back from the Toronto meet, the CEL/VSA/! lights came on and scared the hell out of me. I was driving my car really hard that day, so I thought it might be the transmission. Can you imagine being in a different country, 4 hours away from the border, and the transmission breaking down? No AAA, and no TLC (at least I didn't have the Canadian number, and I highly doubt they will cover me in a foreign country). I would've been screwed.

I drove home, anyway, because I didn't have any other choices. Upon a restart, the VSA/! lights turned off, but the CEL remained on. I was praying that whatever was wrong, the car would hold it until I crossed the border.

I made it home fortunately, and the next day, the CEL turned off on its own as I was going to AutoZone to get it scanned. So I turned around. Today, it came on again as I was driving around. I drove straight to AutoZone and got it scanned. I was guessing either O2 sensor, EGR (I cleaned it last week, maybe something was wrong?) or the transmission -- in that order of likeliness.

Low and behold, it's P0135 AGAIN. Yeah, I blew another primary O2 sensor. This one lasted about 8,000 miles, if I remember right. Weird. Anyway, this is gonna cost me another 80 bucks or so to fix. Not a huge deal, but annoying. But I guess I should be happy that it wasn't anything serious.

Just felt like whining.

 

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.......hehe

 

hey Pure adrenaline..

could i see pics of your car?.
i would greatly appreciate it.

i like the Enkei ZR2.

 

man how do you manage to go thru them? im still on the original

 

I don't know, Kris. If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be going through them like underwear.

 

hahaha good point. i wonder if it was just defective to begin with or if there is something else causing them to go bad (dont know what that would be)

 

Sorry, I kept getting booted offline.

 

 

nice car dude...get the o2 sensor resolve asap.

 

are those the anthracite?.
much thx for pics.

 

yes...excellent TL.

 

Thanks, guys.

joseph, they are the silver ones. Anthracite is much darker.

 

I assume you are over warranty (on an 03??? wow).

 

No, I only have 38k miles on the car. Still under warranty, although most of it is invalid now.

 

O2 sensor is covered under the factory warranty. I had mine replaced for free; even with Comptech headers.

 

Meh, that's what I thought, too. But the two dealerships I talked to said "sorry, can't cover it because of the mods." I guess they just aren't as mod-friendly as your dealership.

 

That vehicle looks good! Nice to see, that the efforts we put in will pay off bercause I've just started my mods, and more to come. I found it stressfull.

 

Thank you, and you're right.

Coming to our Windsor meet next weekend?


EDIT -- This is Pure Adrenaline.. I'm on my brother's computer at home.

 

Still trying to get the time off work. I hope to see you there though.

 

There must be something on the 401 that cuases this. I just got off of the 401 and I had the same problem. I am going to get it checked in the next 10mins or so. Hopefully its nothing major and the dealership wont give me a hard time about it on monday if I need to take it into them.

I saw those lights turn on and I almost shit myself.

 

I just got home from my friends shop. Turns out it was Cylinder 1 missfire. Im not sure what the exact code was but thats what he told me. We reset the code and now I just have to wait and see whether or not it reappears.

 

Haha, the cursed 401.



One misfire code isn't that big of a deal; but when it happens repeatedly, try changing spark plugs and/or wires.

Hopefully it won't happen again.

 

The spark plugs are only a few months old so I am thinking that if it does reappear it might be the coil pack that needs to be replaced...

 

if its a repeated thing most lkely the cause is a coil pack