Guys, the nFamous Stringbean is dying

"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj)
10/06/2014 at 00:04 • Filed to: None

I left my parents house and noticed a check engine light after remote starting and pulled up the Torque app on my phone to reveal an intermittent missfire. I restarted the engine after clearing the code to be presented with a flashing check engine. This may be it. I had a hickup a few weeks back where the engine hit 3k like it was hitting a rev limiter and created an oddball fault code. So she may finally be trying to tell me her time isn't long for this world. Thankfully she's only a weekend warrior as my weekday traveling is done with my work van.

The HID retrofit I'll remove and hang onto since the headlights were <$100 and I'll put the old headlights back in. Out will come all the interior lighting as well.

It's a shame and making me really upset right now. I may need some kind words to help me through this. She's been my temperamental baby for the past 7 years. :(

DISCUSSION (8)

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 00:07

It only has 80,000 miles!

Then again, it's a Chrysler 2.7 V6.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
10/06/2014 at 00:10

fortunately it's a post-sludge era 2.7 but from what I've read they're only good for maybe 100k miles

Squid > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 00:19

Bad coil pack would be my guess.

Arben72 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 00:19

Sounds like a coil pack. Did it mention what cylinder you have a misfire in?

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Arben72
10/06/2014 at 00:29

I believe it was Px0000 so not sure which coil pack it was specifically. I read a forum that said the #3 is prone to failure so I may pick up a replacement a see if that helps (or go down the line and hopefully one of them clears up the issue). Even if resolved this is enough to convince me to sell. I planned on waiting til the end of 2015 to buy but I can't go selling it if anything else goes wrong.

Arben72 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 01:08

Sounds like a Chrysler specific code. Try swapping the coil packs first and see if the code changes any.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 02:01

I've been there, My dad's BMW had a bad coil on cyl 2, and randomly started misfiring. Like others have suggested, try swapping the coil packs.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2014 at 08:03

Check the coil packs. My mechanic determined that was the problem with my car within 5 seconds by disconnecting the spark plug wires from the coil one at a time and seeing if they arced from the coil or not. One coil had weak spark; replaced it and all was well