i will check all those things. thank you

fortunatly my wife is going on holidays next week, i priced out a code reader 199.99, too much for me. but will definatly check out ebay, thanks for the link.

it was not mentioned what fuse was blown when picked up, it was under the dash for sure, i took it to a friends cause we live out of town a bit i looked again for a burnt fuse, but nothing.

have not checked the coils yet, but if one or two coils were shot wouldn't the other two still fire? i am going to pick up a code reader tomorrow, hopefully they have one within budget, if there is one for this model. thanks for the reply.

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