Why?? Why must you torture me so?

"DrZ" (dzehner2) 04/26/2016 at 10:28 • Filed to: subaru, fml, engine swap, oh no not again

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Welp. My car had a misfire this morning after dropping my son off at daycare. I’ve driven it 32 miles since picking it up from the shop after the engine rebuild. No hard driving or anything...

I was accelerating away from a light under 1/4 to 1/2 throttle, and the CEL started flashing at about 45 mph @ 4k RPM or so. Thankfully I was running BTSsm at the time, so I saw it throw a couple knock events. I pulled over and checked the logs and tried to pull the CEL codes. Guess what? No codes! Obviously I didn’t want to drive it since it was idling rough, so I had it towed to the shop that did the engine swap. After talking with them for a bit we all agree it’s probably something simple like a cracked igniter coil boot that just wiggled its way off since the car was sitting for so long. That or a cracked vacuum hose. Fingers crossed...

MUSASHI66 > DrZ 04/26/2016 at 10:42

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That just sucks, you’ve had it back for what, a day?

I love what you did with the car, and I admire it, but these little issues are the reason why I buy and drive new cars every 3 years or so. I had a less than reliable 1991 SHO and ever since that car, I haven’t had the guts to go old.

DrZ > MUSASHI66 04/26/2016 at 10:43

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I got it back at 11:30 AM yesterday, so not even a day. :P Got to drive it for all of 32 miles. ::sigh::

MUSASHI66 > DrZ 04/26/2016 at 10:45

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Good luck with the repair, I hope it is something simple, quick and cheap.

I drove my 16 Forester XT this morning to work - we might get rain and I don’t drive the Abarth when it rains :D.

DrZ > DrZ 04/26/2016 at 10:45

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Yeah, I think our next car will be only a couple years old when we buy it instead of 6!

sony1492 > DrZ 04/26/2016 at 10:57

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I would think that its just a coilpack

Recently I put a motor in an 03 wrx and at first start it idled rough, with a misfire swapped coils with the old motor and it was fixed.

DrZ > sony1492 04/26/2016 at 10:59

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That’s what I’m hoping and praying that it is...

DrZ > sony1492 04/26/2016 at 11:40

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You win the award! Bad coilpack it is. All is well in the world again!