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joatmon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:17 pm Congrats on the girlfriend

and I suppose getting rid of the CEL is nice too

she's awesome. Best one ever. And the CEL, I still can't believe it. It bothered me so much, kinda felt like my car had a disease.

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So, to recap. 2004 base vibe. Bought 2 years ago. CEL went on as I drove it away. Vrought to mecahnic, who took codes, three codes. I paid $250 for those three codes. Mcchanic said 'replace canister, fuel filler neck and a valve under the hood, 1400 bucks. I said I can't, just bought the car for 4 g...

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I'm getting something like exhaust smell in the cabin when the heater is on. I've been getting the codes P0441, P0442,P0446 for the last two years and decided I wasn't going to try to chase down, fuel filler neck, cannister, purge valve, all that stuff. But this exhaust smell in the cabin is new. My...

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hi 2004 Vibe, cloudy headlights. My headlights aren't bright enough at night, and I'm a senior so I need more light. Does it make more sense to get the headlights sanded (body shop will charge me $100) do it myself, or buy some new bulbs? And, are there any conventional bulbs that are brighter than ...

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if you have a spare clip I'll send you the money to send it to me. It will certainly cost less than buying a bag of 25 clips.

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thanks. Any idea what kind of plastic it is? Polyethylene, polypropylene. polystyrene, pvc? Those clips are $18 for 50, $9 for 25, I just need one, perfectly happy to glue.

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I need to glue the trim which is coming loose, By trim I mean the stuff that's under the doors and over the fenders on the exterior body. I need to glue it to the metal and some glues don't work on some plastics. Anybody know what kind of plastic that stuff is?

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great advice. Thanks.

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hi all, 2004 base vibe, driver door sounds like its about to fall off what I open it. Not sure if when I close it, maybe, mybe not, but certainly when I open. I figured the hinges were rusty, but can't really get at the hinges, but there's this plastic looking black thing, might be plastic, might be...

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Sucks. If you saw my post three years ago on the Honda Fit owner's group (fitfreaks) you'd see that I had a very similar experience. I was so effed over by everyone I said F it, and I didn't drive for almost three years. Just came back to driving with an 04 Vibe this past summer, in an effort to get...

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zbyers, I'm going to crawl under the car and try to find those hoses and reverse them. Do you have access to any pics or diagrams of where I'd find the hoses to reverse? And would it just involve pulling them both off where they insert somewhere into the canister, and put each one on the other ones ...

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just want to say that after visiting three body shops I got a nice body guy to weld three pieces of steel to my underbody, fixing the holes for $400. Feel really good about it. He said that I shouldn't jack it up from there anymore, I should use the strong rail further in, but there are no more hole...

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effin awesome. You're awesome. Thanks.

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Rock Auto says I also need to get strut mount and strut bellow? I hadn't seen that mentioned anywhere else.

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https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/monr ... p.html#srp is this going to work? Quick strut? I'll just need this and the sway bar?

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just to clarify. Rock Auto has "stabilizer bar assembly" and "stabilizer bar link". Which of those do I get?

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sweet. thanks. I'm going to do it. I'll keep you posted once I start.

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thanks. I'm going to get the complete strut assembly including mounts from rock auto. The youtube tutorial says replace stabilizer bars too. Should I order stab bar bushings and stab bar link in addition to the stab bar assembly?

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I brought my 04 vibe to another body shop to have him look at my destroyed front jack point. He said to fix it will cost more than the car's worth. He said I paid about 2x what I should have for the car (I paid 4500 five months ago for an 04 base automatic with 160k kms=100k miles). While he was loo...

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very cool for the precision. thanks a bunch.

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CanadianYeti, where are you located? I'm asking because I need some body work done in a very similar area. My forward drivers side jack point collapsed due to rust as I was trying to jack it up to put winters on. I got quoted 1000 and 400. I don't quite trust the 400 because he's going to use 22 gau...

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Precisely my thoughts I’m going to ask him if he can use heavier steel thanks very much

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thanks

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just brought it to another body shop who will fix it for $400. He's going to cut out the rotten part and weld some 22 guage steel in there. He said I wouldn't be able to jack it up anymore by the side because the 22 quage steel can't support the car, but hey, getting it fixed for $400 is *a lot bett...

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Update: you guys were right of course. I brought it to mechanic, who said that the car can't be safetied, can't be sold except for parts. Recommended I bring it to autobody shop and see what they say. They recommended a good shop. Just came back from autobody shop. He said to fix it will cost minimu...

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Are the wheels bold pattern etc on 2008 Toyota Matrix XR fitting on a base 2004 Vibe? Thanks.

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It would sell in Toronto Canada for exactly $4000 Canadian dollars.

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isn't that interesting and not a moment too soon. i just changed my cabin and air filters, and the hood won't latch. fml. gotreats, so what did you do with that broken bolt? Did you have a replacement bolt?

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Okay I'm going to stop messing around. I have an appt next Friday with a mechanic to get the car up on a hoist and have pros look at it. They're not going to charge me anything to look at it. Thanks for telling me it's potentially serious.

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thanks. Amazing that there's no tow hook in the back. I wish there were for snowy Canada. Yeah, I used the axle beam. thanks.

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Hi everyone where’s a rear jack point at the back centre of the vehicle to raise both wheels in the air please? I have no tow hitch.

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IMG_0033.JPG IMG_0033.JPG okay here's better pics. DRiver side, at the jack point. I"m not super concerned about the chassis unless you guys tell me i should be concerned. i'm more concerned about the hole in the un dercarriage just ahead of the jack point. please take a look and let me know. ...

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thanks

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I jacked up the front side of my 04 vibe this evening to change to winters and on the driver side I just couldn't get it high enough. Dropped the jack (not the scissors jack, but a hydraulic jack) and looked underneath. The jack point had collapsed completely, I assume due to rust, and I saw just fo...

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thanks very much. By the way, thanks again for telling me how to reconnect the wires for the flashers and the heater. It was so obvious once I opened it up.

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joatmon, one more thing. When I open the doors the dome light doesn't come on. I can't find any switch for the dome light. There must be one somewhere.

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thanks very much.

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Hi 2004 base vibe automatic, Bought four months ago, With an aftermarket radio which the seller took out at my request and put back in the original radio. Four months later I want to use my emergency flashers and the emergency flasher button does not turn on the emergency flashers and right next to ...

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I sanded the lip of the fuel filler neck in hopes of removing the check engine light. I then drove 300 miles. It didn't work. I guess I have to spring for that new charcoal canister. I was hoping to avoid it...

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interesting. Good on you for finding it. That could have been super frustrating. So you found that you couldn't test the vent valve on the canister?

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32 mpg hwy mostly flat 55mph cruise control 2004 base vibe auto with CEL related to fuel filler neck and charcoal canister

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thanks.

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350kvibe: did you ever reverse those lines and get the valve unstuck?

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adamh: so the evap code was from a harness? Whart kind of harness is that? Can you tell us more about the fix, and what the diagnosis was?

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thanks everyone. I used to do the valves on my honda fit, and made it sing like a fiddle. But if the vibe valves are not adjustable, I'll just leave well enough alone.

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04 vibe, new to me. I have a check engine light that hopefully will be fixed by me replacing the fuel filler neck and the purge valve solenoid on the canister. But I want to do my valves, and wonder why I'm not finding any discussions on here about doing the valves. Its a first gen so the valves nee...

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Andrew, have you been able to download and view the manual from that link? I've downloaded and extracted it, and its individual pages in apparently random order. each page has its own file.

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I didn't get the codes, the mechanic got Evap code, and then did smoke test and said the valve on the canister is stuck, and there's a leak from rust on the fuel filler neck.

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I didn't get the code. I brought the car to the mechanic who got a code that said "evap" and then he did a smoke test and told me that the valve from the canister is stuck, and the fuel filler neck is rusty, and both of those are causing the check engine light. Do you think I can replace j...

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would someone send me a good link for the manual for vibe 04 or therabouts? Or just send me a manual please!! I can give you my email if you message me. Thanks. just bought my first vibe, an 04 base.

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