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    intermittent(sp?) missfire

    once in awhile the VX will develop a missfire. Took it in and the computer showed cylinder 1 missfire. Of course we couldn't get it to missfire at my mechanic's shop.
    We changed plugs and switched the coils around, hoping that next time it missfires the computer will show a diffrent cylinder missfiring then it's probably a coil.
    Well, it started to miss again. I'll take it to Mark( my mech) Monday. If for some reason it's still missing on # 1 cyl what do you guys (or girls) think the next step should be?
    40,000 miles.
    BTW it starts missing from startup, not during driving. I tried disconnecting battery to reset the glitch but it didn't work. Started it up 3 hours later and all is well. Go figure!!

    When I die they'll bury me in this car with my hands still on the wheel!!




    Thanks!!

    TW:
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    Aren't problems with cylinder #1 the percursor to the dreaded 60K mile engine failure? I could be totally wrong, and I'm too lazy to use the search engine myself to find out for sure....

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    When I bought the coils from Coachreed ,some one posted that one of the coils is shorter than the rest ,it also has a differnt number " 9714 " stamped on it ,It goes to the number 6 cylinder only .right drivers side .
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    Try tapping on the injector or cleaning it. That stopped my check engine light from coming on... the code thrown was #1 cylinder missfire!
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    Thanks!!

    Billy, I had read your post in the archives about tapping on the tubes. That sounds too easy! I tried it and we'll see if that exorcized the deamons.


    Thanks again guys for your input

    TW

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