I'm crying in my beer! Here this car goes again. Situation, several weeks ago, while going 0-5 mph for about 20 mins. I felt a "shake" in the steering wheel. In neutral, engine sounds wonderful, like silk. After a week or so of the steering wheel shake, it started shaking, bucking? only when I accelerated and only when it hit about 50mph. If I take foot off the gas pedal, she stops! and if I go over 60mph she stops! The engine servicer light went on when it all started.
Mechanic fixed it, (he-he) he said anyway. Put in a ..oh I cant remember the name near the engine but there are three of them I think and round and cost about 25.00 and he said I was running on only 4 cylinders! Nope. drove out and felt shake immediately in steering wheel. He put it on computer then and came up with these codes:
341 intermittant cam signal
321 no IBX? or 18X? (cant read his writing) ignition pulse
300 misfire detected
he wiped out the codes and said it might get better and that the misfire code was probably from the round thingy he replaced.
Anyway guys, please if you can help me discern which of these codes might be causing the problem I'd so much appreciate it. I've spent so much on this car ... god, what a lemon, I could own a cadillac by now methinks!
ONE OTHER THING, backing out of garage one day last week, heard a noise in reverse. Drove down to the nearest garage and asked them to check trans fluid. (I dont think it has ever been checked...at least not years) they said it was fairly low and added fluid. I wonder, could this be the problem, a transmission problem?
Any help, any words at all will be cherished. Or you can email me at
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Thanks everyone
Joyce