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durane12
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New member and a engine question.

Post by durane12 »

I'm new to forum and just had a weird thing happen to me with my car. I have had my car sine 17000 miles. I have a 2007 manual transmission. The car got sluggish all of a sudden and the check engine light is not on. I had the PCM replaced in 2011 and when I moved to another state I got a recall notice for the same part. I'm just wondering if fuel injection cleaner might do the trick or should I look into the PCM problem again? I love my car and its annoying when it acts like its gonna shut off like it did when I had the PCM replaced before. Any ideas???


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Sherri
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Re: New member and a engine question.

Post by Nasmfell »

You answered your questions. There have been instances where the replacement PCM has had problems like the one what was replaced.
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Re: New member and a engine question.

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durane12 wrote:I'm new to forum and just had a weird thing happen to me with my car. I have had my car sine 17000 miles. I have a 2007 manual transmission. The car got sluggish all of a sudden and the check engine light is not on. I had the PCM replaced in 2011 and when I moved to another state I got a recall notice for the same part. I'm just wondering if fuel injection cleaner might do the trick or should I look into the PCM problem again? I love my car and its annoying when it acts like its gonna shut off like it did when I had the PCM replaced before. Any ideas???


Help!!!

Sherri
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Re: New member and a engine question.

Post by triz »

Seeing as your check engine light is not on I would look into the PCM recall as an option. (see if they will replace it again)

How long has it been since your last fill up? Could be just a bad tank of gas.
I would clean the throttle body and MAF. Add a bottle of Amsoil PI Performance Improver or Chevron Techron and see if it improves. Sometimes these little thing will improve the response a whole lot. And if you do them yourself are inexpensive and easy to DIY. Your looking at possibly 30 dollars to do all three yourself. Possibly less.
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