More Failalier Failure?

[ASIAN JUL]

Originally Posted by drkramm

maybe its the flux capacitor its not charging to the required 1.21 jigawatts.

or maybe the rotator splint.

i bring nothing to the table.

wut

Originally Posted by jspek

nah its the blitz samoflange.

wut

Originally Posted by drkramm

or the blinker fluid ? muffler bearings ?

wut

Originally Posted by Vr-4-Life

maybe its the turbo fuild?

@fuild?
@turbo?

Originally Posted by 05 mazda6s

I think the problem is cuz your swearing to dogs not to God

I would go to Autozone and borrow the OBDII Scanner to check the CEL and see what it says. Give us the code and diagnostic it sells, that would help.

I don't believe in God, hence the dog.

My friend has an OBD II but, he's asleep.

Originally Posted by Showoff03LS

power surge, hmmmm thats not good. how badly did u beat this car ??

Me? I didn't beat this car at all. Like, no joke, never. I don't beat on my car. I think the fastest I've gone in it was 95. Once.

Originally Posted by 350 INCH 95

A faulty EGR valve could cause erratic idle. When it went on my Blazer the idle jumped all over the place and the car would shake. A vacuum leak is also possible, look at all the rubber hoses in your engine bay and look for cracks or any that got disconnected. They dry out after a while and start to crack, causing a leak.

wut

Originally Posted by nthngnss844

ok for your weird idle it could be you idle air controller i will sometimes make the car bog...and almost stall out...this can feel more excessive with a bad motor mount..and with the dimming lights could be a bad dimmer resister...but how many miles are on the car...i would replace the alternator...i actually had a car one time getting the dimming of lights because the serpentine belt was actually slipping around the alternator pulley...

80K I think.. 81500 maybe?



Thanks for all the help and suggestions guys, even though I have no idea what it means. I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

[Showoff03LS]

maybe u should beat the car a lil bit then , it might help out. if u do need a motor mount ill hook ya up with my stock one

[lawdogg]

And stop calling it a Failalier, you have (a) Cavalqueer or (b) Queervalier. Pick one. Reading 'Failalier' just messes with my head, like 'bananana' or 'missississippi'.

[97TurboDSM]

Originally Posted by CleanNeon98

Sounds like you may have a bad motor mount causing the engine to rock back and forth excessively and shake the car. Does it shake more when it is in drive rather than in park?

bad motor mount will not cause that. i have a mount bolt missing and experience nothing of the sort. sounds like a REALLY lean condition at idle which could mean a vacuum hose came off or something of the sort.

[ASIAN JUL]

Dimitri Martin? Lol bana..not far enough..bananana. Damn.

[Showoff03LS]

could just be over due on a spark plug, coil pack and wire change ... AKA a tune up

[3rdGenMr2Girl]

my dd drove like total **** until i gave it a tune up

[97TurboDSM]

prolly a short list of things thats causing it but definitely have the plugs/wires changed with your oil.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by Showoff03LS

the cavalier has a Coil pack.

****, i should have known that, lol my sunbird was the same ****ing car. My car was acting like this before the engine took a ****. I did a full tune up and it was still missing and vibrating bad. Then my garage was filled with smoke and i filled out paperwork with purple heart to pick it up and get a write off

[bl@ckvr4]

Rocky revs can be caused by a faulty ECU or TCU, since it's an automatic. Same thing happened on my Eclipse a while back 'til I converted to manual. Alternator can be defective too, which can cause the dimming lights, loss of power, etc..

[ASIAN JUL]

It's at the shop right now.

[3rdGenMr2Girl]

you should have had someone on here do it, it would have saved you a lot of money..i'm sure no one on here would rape you on the price like a shop will.

[ASIAN JUL]

Do what? Diagnose the problem with my car? I dropped it off a little after 8 today and still haven't heard... I'm wondering if that means there's more wrong with it than I thought

[3rdGenMr2Girl]

a lot of shops charge 100 just to diagnose (depending on where you take it).

[Elliott18t]

hopefully, they didnt start fixing it first w/o telling you what was wrong first.

[ASIAN JUL]

I honestly have no clue what they're charging yet, they said they'd call with a price first before they did work to it (as far as the idling thing goes). Who knows.

[Showoff03LS]

depending on what itll need and how much of a mechanic ud have to be for the stuff (unless its something i know how to do) id be willing to do the work for ya , which will be way less then the shop would charge(almost FREE labor)

[zuki19]

Didn't really read though, I would say...

1) pull your plugs, see what they look like
2) replace if they are junk
3) rpm's jumping around could be a vaccum line issue
4) when exactly did this start doing it??? just out of the blue???

[ASIAN JUL]

Originally Posted by zuki19

Didn't really read though, I would say...

1) pull your plugs, see what they look like
2) replace if they are junk
3) rpm's jumping around could be a vaccum line issue
4) when exactly did this start doing it??? just out of the blue???

The tach jumping around and the car shaking only started on Monday morning or so. And yeah, before that there was nothing wrong other than the brake pads that needed replacing.

[zuki19]

ok, whats it usually idle at??? if its going below normal than i'm going to say vaccum leak.