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#67 of 69 Re: Odd knocking noise [yellowmatrix09] by etnpnys Aug 03, 2009 (5:24 am)
Replying to: yellowmatrix09 (Aug 01, 2009 12:10 pm) Yes! Exactly! Wow... You can't know how much of a relief it is for me to see that somebody else knows what I'm talking about. Like I said: I had one guy at a Toyota dealership tell me that it was the belt tensioner - that he'd seen them have to replace a few of them around 30k-40k miles.   ...But that doesn't make sense; that thing shouldn't have any moving parts at all. And if you check very closely under the hood you can almost pinpoint it to the furthest left cylinder (the one on the passenger side - I forgot the cyl #) right under the head.   For what it's worth, the car is still running great at 155k. I put 89 octane into it regularly and, like you said, the ping is lessened.   ...Now I have an airbag light coming on that's driving me crazy - but I really think that everybody on this board is just going to say "you need to get it serviced and have the airbags looked at." Well duh. But they're just mechanics - and so is half of my family. What are THEIR mechanics going to find wrong? I did a diagnostic myself by shorting two pins on the OBDII connector and getting the error code. I looked up that error code and it said something about my passenger side airbag isn't initializing properly - but it doesn't come on consistently! Perhaps a fuse that needs to be replaced? I dunno.
#68 of 69 Rough Idle by toyota313 Oct 04, 2009 (10:08 am)
#69 of 69 Rough Idle by toyota313 Oct 04, 2009 (10:08 am)
2003 Toyota Matrix idles rough after engine warms up. Diagnostics code shows it misfiring on all 4 cylinders. It started after I washed engine compartment. Could this be a coil problem or arcing of the spark plug boot? I have taken it to the dealer and they stated it was a fuel problem and run a few tanks of good fuel through it. This did not help. Any suggestions? Thank you

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