damn car problems again
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4th Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,327
From: maryland
damn car problems again
hey guys, again
so as some of u know, i bought a tuner and it messed with my car when i got the strategy off the car. i got the tuner tuned and it has been running fine for about a month now, got in my car after work and BAM same ****, i turn it over and i turn and starts then the rpms drop and it dies, so i turn it over and gas it at the same time and it starts. i drove the whole way home just putting it in neutral and keeping the rpms up. got home and the problem stoped, it just ran fine no rpm drop.
theory one
- the guage face i installed about 2 months ago is faulting, does what i described sound like what happens if the guages arnt connected
theory two
- my car "forgot" that it got tuned.
so as some of u know, i bought a tuner and it messed with my car when i got the strategy off the car. i got the tuner tuned and it has been running fine for about a month now, got in my car after work and BAM same ****, i turn it over and i turn and starts then the rpms drop and it dies, so i turn it over and gas it at the same time and it starts. i drove the whole way home just putting it in neutral and keeping the rpms up. got home and the problem stoped, it just ran fine no rpm drop.
theory one
- the guage face i installed about 2 months ago is faulting, does what i described sound like what happens if the guages arnt connected
theory two
- my car "forgot" that it got tuned.
5th Gear Member
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,951
From: CT
OK, the car isn't going to "forget" it was tuned. It's not like a person where it has a certain % chance of remembering ****. Once the computer is programmed to something, it's programmed. End of story.
And what you're gauges read have no affect on how the car actually runs. For a car to run, you don't actually need gauges. The gauges are there for the driver to tell how the car is running. The engine controls the gauges, the gauges don't control the engine.
If the car is giving you problems ever since you tuned it, I'd contact your tuner, cause either he ****ed up your tune, or there is an actual problem. I'm gonna say the person who wrote the tune ****ed up. I hate the term "ever since", but when you mess with a car's computer and then it begins having problems running, I'd have to say this "ever since" scenario applies.
And what you're gauges read have no affect on how the car actually runs. For a car to run, you don't actually need gauges. The gauges are there for the driver to tell how the car is running. The engine controls the gauges, the gauges don't control the engine.
If the car is giving you problems ever since you tuned it, I'd contact your tuner, cause either he ****ed up your tune, or there is an actual problem. I'm gonna say the person who wrote the tune ****ed up. I hate the term "ever since", but when you mess with a car's computer and then it begins having problems running, I'd have to say this "ever since" scenario applies.
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 183
From: GA
hopefully it's not your computer going out, i put a custom tuned chip on my computer, a few weeks later i started having occasional problems that would go away after a few minutes, the last time the car started running bad the computer took a dump and my ignition module caught fire