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Question: Car hesitate when taking off and stopping.

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Manny Sterrett, Baltimore, MD, March 23, 2009, 05:54
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I had a mini diagonis check it said, mis-fire on one cylinder. I replaced the spark plugs and cleaned the coils but the problem is remains.

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    patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, March 23, 2009, 21:38
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    What was the code stored, which cylinder was flagged as the mis-firing cylinder. If the ignition coils are interchangeable and the cylinder that was flagged as the mis-firing cylinder was cylinder number 1, move that coil to cylinder 4. Drive the car and if mis-fire returns see if fault has now moved to cylinder 4 that would show the coil is the offending part. After that it down to basics, check compression. check for vacuum leaks ect..
    A scan tool is useful at looking at live and stored data, shows air flow values (shows up a bad air flow meter), fuel trim values (if adding fuel engine is running lean).

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    Visitor, April 26, 2010, 02:27

    This is mnost likely a bad coil, you can verify by swapping coils with a different cylinder and clearing faults. when fault reoccurs check which cylinder, but 19 out of twenty times it is the coil.

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