Check Engine light + Engine Smoke
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^........tough to tell if it's worth them taking a look at the CAT or not.....if it's gonna cost her money. If it was the first time this happened then it's probably okay? If no money, then yeah....have them take a look at it. I gotta go back and read how many miles she had on those coils, just to see.
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Never assume that just because a profile picture is of a gal that the poster is a gal and NEVER assume that because the person is female they don't know how to wrench. The person in question already popped the hood and did the smartest thing they could have done...documented symptoms and came here for help.
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So I've been thinking about this most of today. Mazurfer...maybe you can help me out here. If 2 coils were bad, or going bad, wouldn't there be a noticeable powerloss? Wouldn't you also expect a CEL for a misfire, or does that only come on from like a knock censor?
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You have some very valid points. I guess I need to step back and think that one through!
Remember what my original guess was..................and we don't really know if she has the car back yet and that it's running fine.
Remember what my original guess was..................and we don't really know if she has the car back yet and that it's running fine.
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Maybe the coils werent blown fully...maybe it was just misfiring and pissing gasolene out into the exhaust ... i duno just guessing.
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I guess depending on what 2 coils were bad would really help us out more. I would assume there was 1 coil per rotor that was out .... if 2 then im pretty sure the engine would just seize.
Maybe the coils werent blown fully...maybe it was just misfiring and pissing gasolene out into the exhaust ... i duno just guessing.
Maybe the coils werent blown fully...maybe it was just misfiring and pissing gasolene out into the exhaust ... i duno just guessing.
Think we may just have to wait to hear back from her.
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I would think that if the coils really were really bad(which is yet to be proven BTW), then running at 60mph would dump a crapload of fuel in the CAT and got really, really hot? You'd think there would be power loss which is the part we all have an issue with.
You'd think she would've said it smelled like burning plastic if the coils literally melted, which I've never really heard of.
And we really don't know how much smoke was involved either.
All we do know is that "they" said two coils were bad and said there was an "o2 code".
Okay she said "Co2", but I'm sure she meant "o2".![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
We may never know if she doesn't come back and let us know if it's running fine and all they did was to switch out two coils.
You'd think she would've said it smelled like burning plastic if the coils literally melted, which I've never really heard of.
And we really don't know how much smoke was involved either.
All we do know is that "they" said two coils were bad and said there was an "o2 code".
Okay she said "Co2", but I'm sure she meant "o2".
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We may never know if she doesn't come back and let us know if it's running fine and all they did was to switch out two coils.
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But........remember that if it does go out, your CAT is under warranty for 8 years or 80k miles!
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So, when this happened on the way to work and you slowed down to approx. 60mph, you felt no real power loss? Even when getting off what I presume was highway and hit the streets before you got to work?
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