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#1 of 6 Need Help by lilballer Jun 26, 2008 (3:53 pm)
Hey I jus got bought my first car and it a cadillac deville 2003 with a northstar engine It has a little over 75,000 miles but while driving today It started to give off a foul smell i smelt like a rotten egg I check the engine and seen nothin then I looked ubder the car and seen sumthing hangin down it was drippin fluid and giving off steam can anyone help me out by tellin me what this r what the problem may be? Replies to this message: bolivar (Jun 26, 2008 5:08 pm)
#2 of 6 Re: Need Help [lilballer] by bolivar Jun 26, 2008 (5:08 pm)
Replying to: lilballer (Jun 26, 2008 3:53 pm) Well, let's see. A Caddy has the following fluids:   -Oil -Coolant (antifreeze) -Power Steering -Brake Fluid -Transmission Fluid -Gasoline -Windshield Washer -Battery Acid (the battery on your 2003 Deville is inside, under the rear seat) -Condensation from the Air Conditioner   Each one of these has somewhat destinctive color and odour,But some are tough to determine.   The only 'rotten egg' smell from an auto usually comes from the exhaust, and usually isn't anything to worry about. Oh, wait a minute. Battery acid has an acidic, somewhat rotten smell. You better hope this isn't a burst battery under the rear seat.   Oh, I'm adding this in here. If you are running the Air Conditioner, it will condense water our of the inside air, and there is a drain where this comes out. All cars will drip water during the summer when it is condensing out. This is normal and nothing to worry about.   In the hot summer, the first next to check is if it is coolant. Coolant will be reddish, brownish, maybe green if someone has put non-standard coolant in there, and has a sweetish smell and is slightly oily in texture.   You are going to have to give us some help here. But really, if you can't determine what is leaking, you should get it to a repair shop pretty quickly.   Leaking coolant will cause cause an error message to display when it leakes so much it is low, and when it gets even lower, the motor will overheat, displaying even more error conditions. Continuing to run the auto will ruin the motor.
#3 of 6 DeVille 2001 warning lights? by vladimir27 Jul 07, 2008 (12:08 pm)
How accurate are the warning dashboard lights? On my last long distance trip, it said: "service engine soon". A Cadillac dealership told me the computer points to transmission. After hearing the amount of $1250.- plus, just to find the problem, I have decided to drive home, hell or high water. After another 800 mls , I am home now, DeVille sounds perfect and the %#&^*( light is off. What is going on? Just in case: I did check my tr. oil and it is 100% full. Thanks. Replies to this message: bolivar (Jul 07, 2008 10:55 pm)
#4 of 6 Re: DeVille 2001 warning lights? [vladimir27] by bolivar Jul 07, 2008 (10:55 pm)
Replying to: vladimir27 (Jul 07, 2008 12:08 pm) Well, it could have just been an 'intermittent' error, and the dealer re-set the light, and the error did not happen again. Lucky you.   The check engine lights are usually pretty valid. One thing that will set false errors, and usually will set a whole slew of them, is a bad battery, one with low voltage. Caddys do not like low voltage (and most modern autos are the same here), and if the voltage drops to 10 or 11 volts, this might be enough to start the car, but it may set a mess of codes, make 'strange' things appear on your digital dash, make certain components do strange things, etc, etc, etc.   Your Cadillac has an extensive self diagnostic system which can easily be accessed by you. I'm not going into how to access or navigate thru this system. But, with the instructions, you can easily see the specific error 'codes' set. It will just be a number, but there are sites which will give you guidance as what general information is tied to each error code.   IF it happens again, here is a link to a site with error codes and info on how to 'get into' the diagnostic system on cadillacs   http://myweb.accessus.net/~090/dtcobd2.html   Hosts: Please do not slap my hands about this. You told me a ciuple years ago, that if a question needed additional info found on another site, it was ok to post the link. I'm hoping that is all that I've done here.
#5 of 6 DeVille2001 Warning Lights? by vladimir27 Jul 08, 2008 (5:54 am)
Thanks, bolivar. I will try the site. However since my confidence in DeVille is now big fat zero, I am thinking to replace it with Toyota or Subaru.
#6 of 6 93 fleetwood by dadstoy Aug 20, 2008 (5:57 pm)
I have owend this car for 4 years and not really had a problem ..untill now.a new fuel pump and filter were installed a year ago.now it starts fine runs for about 5-10 min then dies and will not restart.the fuel pressure is at 20 pounds while running,but when it dies or you shut it off it will not hold pressure.but when you try to start it it goes right back up to 20 pound and wont start. any ideas?

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