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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 06:24 AM
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Well my car seems to be miss fireing at low rpms. If i have it at high rpms its runs fine except for a little power lose.
I have ngk plugs with about 30,000 miles on them. I also have 110,000 on the coil overs. Can anybody help.
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 06:28 AM
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Thats not much info to go on. Start with a typical tune up, change out the spark plugs, fuel filter, etc...
Old Jul 10, 2007 | 07:15 AM
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Check/change the coil packs
Old Jul 10, 2007 | 07:19 AM
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How can you tell if the coil is bad? How does a bad one look like?
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 07:54 AM
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unplug it, take out the coil bolt and remove. look inside the coil and check for rust or corrosion, maybe schmutz a little dielectric grease in there while your at it as a quick test.
Old Jul 10, 2007 | 09:49 AM
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did you wash your engine recently?

to test then you'll need a multimeter so you can check the primary and secondary resistance.......... but i don't think it's the coils just yet, i would first change the fuel filter and plugs since it's probably about that time anyway
Old Jul 10, 2007 | 09:52 AM
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Well my car seems to be miss fireing at low rpms. If i have it at high rpms its runs fine except for a little power lose.
I have ngk plugs with about 30,000 miles on them. I also have 110,000 on the coil overs. Can anybody help.
Thanks.
sounds like it could be a vaccume line.

open your hood and check the connections to your throttle body and see if anything is loose
Old Jul 10, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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NGK makes a wide variety of plugs so saying "I have ngk plugs" doesn't tell us much--however if what you have are plain 'ol copper core conventional electrode plugs then you can bet they are shot at 30k miles...
Old Jul 11, 2007 | 11:38 AM
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check and see if the plugs are gapped right too.
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