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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpldAv0uQE This video quickly goes over the Techstream software that is used to change options in Toyota vehicles. Each car has it own options that the software pulls up by reading the cars VIN number. I know that the software works with the Vibe as I have changed so...

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This is where planning ahead with some penetrating fluid can really help out. A couple of weeks before doing something like this, spray all the bolts down and at least give yourself a chance of getting them loose. There is no easy fix at this point. Broken bolts are always time and materials charge ...

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The problem can be caused by all of the above that you have talked about. At this forum others have stated that the rotors that lasted the longest for them were the Toyota OEM rotors at about $80.00 per rotor and that the cheap rotors are not worth buying because they will warp. Also make sure that ...

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I wonder if you got some bad gas in your tank or water. Maybe try some gas line anti-freeze. If there is water in your tank this will help absorb the water into the gas and get it out of the tank. Also side note: Avoid filling your car at a gas station when a tanker truck is dumping there. Your chan...

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What year is your Vibe? Which engine does it have? What transmission does it have? Is it an AWD or two wheel drive? Does the engine come up to full temperature? Does the transmission go into overdrive? Does the torque convertor lock up if you have an automatic transmission? Does the car roll freely ...

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You can forget what I said about the ECM, my mistake, I thought you had a '09. Be sure to test your fuses too.

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You may want to pull the ECM and the fuse box from the engine bay. Inspect the ECM for any signs of damage to the wiring, connectors, and the board. The fuse box has wiring under the box and inspect that too. Not knowing how hard it hit, the engine may have rocked in the engine mounts and pulled on ...

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You could probably wire up some relays to the parking brake switch to trigger the power locks. You would have to use a smart relay that would be programed for a "one shot" so that you would not be applying power to the door locks all the time and end up burning out the coils in the actuat...

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The factory spark plugs for the 1.8 are Denso, which is the company that makes most, if not all the electrical hardware for the Vibe. The OEM spark plugs are Denso SC20HR11 Spark plug torque is 18 lb-ft Spark plug gap is 0.040 to 0.048 in Change motor oil every 2 to 3 thousand miles unless you do lo...

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With the auto trans, you can change the setting for the door locks with the Techstream software. I have done it with my 2009. I do not know for sure but I would think that it is not possible with the manual transmission because there is no sensor for the ECM to know if the manual transmission is in ...

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Could it be a gasoline pick up problem in your gas tank or a float sensor problem in your gas tank? How low was gas level in your tank when the shutoff's occurred? Does it ever shutoff when the gas tank level is half full or more?

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...at this time i noticed my radiator had been punctured and had pretty much leaked all the coolant out. This is where the mystery takes place. My coolant temp gauge never went above half while driving yet when i went to start the car after it being parked for about 30 minutes, it WOULDN'T start an...

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When a technician takes your car for at test drive, with the proper scanner hooked up, they should be able to see the signal for the convertor lock up to the solenoid in the transmission valve body. As the car is coming to a stop, they should see the signal disengage. This would verify that the ECM ...

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There is one post here on this board where the the person had a cracked intake manifold which caused the P0171 code. http://forums.genvibe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=43883&p=501522&hilit=P0171#p501522 Here you can read about it. The odds are not real high on this being the problem, ...

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Change the bulb. The tail light is on with the headlights, that portion of the bulb is good. The stop light portion of the bulb is bad. Here is a link to a video showing you how: https://www.carcarekiosk.com/video/2009_Pontiac_Vibe_1.8L_4_Cyl./lights/tail_light I think the lamp number is 7443 but do...

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Just take a file and lightly score the surface with a mark. A marker could come off with the oil heat and detergent additives that are in the motor oil. Change your oil more often to keep the additive package good. The additive package breaks down the longer you leave the oil in the engine and can c...

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Here is some info I ran across which is generic P0505 info ; I cut some of it out to get to the troubleshooting part: P0505 IAC Malfunction OBD-II Trouble Code Technical Description Article by Dale Toalston ASE Certified Technician IAC (Idle Air Control) System Malfunction What does that mean? The I...

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Volumetric efficiency is how well the cylinders are being filled with air and is given in a percentage. If you take the known total cubic inches of the engine and you are able to fill all the cylinders full when the engine is running, then you 1.0 or 100% volumetric efficiency. This can be measured ...

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Below is the info for a 2009-2010 Vibe spark plug install from GM for the 1.8L engine. The steps are remove cover, remove coil packs, remove spark plugs. Some of the strange info that is in this picture is that they call for a 14mm spark plug socket. I have the 2.4L engine in my Vibe and that sectio...

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Caretaker, GM is not doing this out of their concern over your safety. It is the liability that GM has if someone gets injured because of known defective parts. This is costing GM a lot of money but when they look at the bottom line, it is cheaper to replace the air bags and reduce or remove the lia...

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This is why you should never use a impact gun on jacketed wheel nuts . It will pound the jacket on the nut, distorting the jacket metal so that the socket does not fit, or the jacket splits and falls off the nut on its own. Only use some type of breaker bar to get the wheel nuts loose and tightened....

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So can you transfer the guts (circuit board) from your old controller to the new one that has good buttons?

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http://repairpal.com/OBD-II-Code-P0741

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Put an amp meter on it and check the amperage output as shown below. You can have voltage but if you don't have amps, you have no power. INSPECT CHARGING CIRCUIT WITH LOAD (a)With the engine running at 2,000 rpm, turn on the high beam headlights and place the heater blower switch at ”HI”. (b)Check t...

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If you get the steering shaft one spline off from where it was or replace the shaft with a different one, that will mess up the sensor. As you turn the steering wheel the outer wheel has the spin faster to keep up. If the sensor is telling it that you have the steering wheel cranked, but you are goi...

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This is what I used in my 2009; still working great. https://www.amazon.com/Mag-64092-6PK-Multi-Vehicle-Viscosity-Transmission/dp/B00DE7LVSG Price has gone up but is still way less then the Toyota fluid - ($30.67 for 6 qt). Read the Amazon reviews. If you search this forum you will find answers to y...

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Just a guess from what you had apart that the "Steering Angle Sensor " is way off, so that the computer for it is going crazy because of values that it can not deal with. Does the power steering work as it did? If this is the case, this is a very BIG safety hazard. I have never worked on a...

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Both of you are describing worn out/bad brushes in the blower motor. If you tap on the motor and it takes off running, you most likely have bad motor brushes. At least that is the part that physically wears out on a DC motor. You could have bad wiring connections but the odds on favorite in this cas...

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For spark plugs, you may want to invest in one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Sunex-884505-8-Inch-16-Inch-Socket/dp/B0074HNK9A%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-ffsb-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0074HNK9A It will help prevent crac...

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That is why they make these funnels to get the air out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma7wI2QXhEg

Bleeding air out of system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCkGiaWN-I

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With the other post of your oil problem on this car could it be a VVT system random malfunction problem? The lack of any codes does not help so the problem will take a lot of diagnostic time at this point. Until the problem gets worse and start throwing codes, it is just a guessing game over the int...

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This is the same car from this post?
viewtopic.php?f=17&p=517037&sid=38dccd6 ... 95#p517037

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Clean up the area with some spray brake cleaner to get the oil off and then watch it over the next few days to see the first signs of where the oil is coming from. If it is not dripping, then do not worry about it until it does drip as it is not a cheap or easy fix to replace that seal. You can try ...

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"Now is also a good time to clean your idle speed control valve assembly while you have the throttle body off." To slow, now to fast; this is the one item that can do both. Make sure it is free and clean as circuitsmith also pointed out. Go to this page and scroll towards the bottom of th...

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This info may help; the Toyota RAV4, Matrix and the Vibe use the same type of drive couple. There are a lot of different types of viscous couplings, even a torque convertor in a automatic transmission is a type of viscous couple. Anyways check these links for more info on the type that is used in th...

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So the real problem is the engine stalling out or to low of an idle speed. This is information for a 2003 Toyota Corolla/Matrix. Most of it is the same through 2008, http://madstyle1972.com/Repair/ Look at section 05-190, 05-195, 05-264, also 10-15, and 10-16. And something else to read: http://repa...

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Around 2006 is when the change over to "drive by wire" took place. If your engine has a throttle cable then the TPS can be changed out as per above. If your throttle body does not have a throttle cable hooked to the throttle body and is controlled by electric wires only, then the TPS contr...

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It does bolt to the side of the throttle body and the bolts get tightened to 18 in-lbs. on both the 1zz-fe and the 2zz-ge engines. INSTALL E.F.I. THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR (a) Check that the throttle valve is fully close. (b) Insert the throttle position sensor to the throttle body with it turned clo...

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When you have the belt off, check that all the pulley's spin free and smooth. Tension the belt properly. If the belt is loose it will do what you are describing, and if the belt is to tight it could take the bearings out on the pulley shafts.

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A bad fuel pump or fuel pressure regulator?

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Have you looked here? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tint+headlights+vht+nite+shades&t=ffsb&ia=videos I have no experience with this because I do not want to be a police magnet. Check federal and state laws before you go any further. Most states are very specific about the color of tail, side mar...

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I do not have an answer for you on that. The displayed mileage numbers stored in the e-prom memory locations have nothing to do with KM or miles. You have been messing with the wrong memory locations in the e-prom and you need to put them back the way they were. If I were you I would restore your e-...

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If you have eliminated all other possible causes, then yes, it is the throttle body. If you watched the You Tube video I pointed you to and pickup on the fact that the throttle body has a motor in that can wear out, stick, or in other words not respond properly and also has electronics that can go b...

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This may help if you think the throttle body is bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AYq_qk1U7A

Another thing to try is to disconnect the battery for 15 minutes to clear the ECM memory. It will take about 100 miles driving for the ECM to re-set itself after the memory is cleared.

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Make sure you get the most light out by polishing the lens with something like Plast-X or if bad then check this and other threads about the headlights on this board. http://forums.genvibe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=32513 http://forums.genvibe.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=41643 Every...

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Jack up only one front wheel off the ground and try spinning it by hand with the transmission in park. Now do the same with the other front wheel. Can you spin the tire by hand? Does only the side that you changed the axle on spin? Jack up both front wheels and sin one by hand. Does the other wheel ...

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Here is another link with more direct info. The title is "Understanding and diagnosing Toyota P0420 DTC". http://www.autoserviceprofessional.com/article/92421/Understanding-and-diagnosing-Toyota-P0420-DTC?Page=1 An exhaust leak that pulls air into the exhaust in front of the OS can trick t...

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Here are two places to get some idea of what to be looking at:

http://ricksfreeautorepairadvice.com/ho ... ode-p0420/

http://www.autocodes.com/p0420_toyota.html ;and check the some of the links at the bottom of this page too.

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Should I go back to the original sheet metal design? Are the aluminum ones just trouble or what? Are you referring to the impeller on the pump? You may want to try a rebuilt water pump. Any water pump bearing problems I have seen on cars are caused by a leaking ceramic seal assembly in the pump, a ...

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The rears are not struts but are coil over shocks. I believe Monreo owns Gabriel, or they use to own them, I am not a 100% sure on that now. In general, the Monreo's are softer, smoother riding then the KYB's are. If you put KYB on the front then I would stick with KYB for the rear too.

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