It's possible that it really had 168k when you bought it if it didn't have the 6th digit on the odometer. Or maybe someone turned the odometer back.
The 2.5 really seems to be a good motor, though, even if it isn't too swift on its feet. Mine has just over 200,000 on it now, and the car is in the
Well, we've long since gotten rid of the car.
Which might've been a mistake, because we were afraid at the time it would
nickel and dime us to death given the miles on it.
Wound up buying another, same year, model, and motor, with only about 68K
miles, which dropped dead at 90K.
Mechanic says "T
Joe,
You had mentioned your wife's Celebrity with the 2.5L 4 cyl had problems with missing when first hitting the gas from a dead stop. As you said it has the single injector ahead of the intake manifold which is the same setup as my car.
Not sure from your post if you still have the car or not, b
At 02:15 AM 9/3/06 GMT, njot33 wrote:
>Milton, What you said makes a lot of sense.
>You asked about the ignition wires, and yes, I did recently replace them.
> about having dirty fuel injectors being the source of missing/sputtering
>is a definite possibility. Thanks again,
Injector . . singular
Milton,
Thanks for your response. What you said makes a lot of sense.You asked about the ignition wires, and yes, I did recently replace them.The idea about having dirty fuel injectors being the source of missing/sputtering is a definite possibility.
Thanks again,njot
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Why did this happen? Why would I get horribly low readings with a cold
engine but OK readings with a warm engine? Is this abnormal?
First, on the cold engine which hadn't been run for a few days, all the oil
had drained out of the ring area. Oil on the cylinder walls does help to
seal the r
Folks,
I have a 90 Cutlass Ciera which runs well but sometimes has a miss/sputter at idle that I decided to try to track down. I made sure I had no vacuum leaks, and my plugs and wires are OK, so I figured I would check the compression. It has the 2.5L 4 cyl in it, by the way.
Here are the readin
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