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To: sandbar

Sounds like it. It happened to my Escape too. I took it to the shop and $28 later I had a new EGR valve and no check engine light.


107 posted on 07/26/2005 5:03:55 PM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you will have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: Doohickey

"Sounds like it. It happened to my Escape too. I took it to the shop and $28 later I had a new EGR valve and no check engine light."

ya got off light, I tell ya. My wife had a 93 Buick Century, 3.1L engine. $600 for parts and labor for the new "digital" EGR valve. Still didn't get rid of the light. I finally fixed it when I noticed a burned spot on the wireing to the EGR valve, cut the wire to either side of the burn, and put in a crimp-splice to join ends. Broken wire would connect sometimes, sometimes not... Stupid tech didn't bother to check the wiring. They wouldn't fix it because they couldn't find it. I stopped having work done at that dealership because they also did a state safety inspection while it was in, and a week later, the muffler fell off; entire front face was rusted out completely. It would have cost me $300 to replace the EGR valve, but I didn't have time to do it, so let my wife take it to the dealer we bought it from (used) and the expensive warranty didn't cover emission control systems.


153 posted on 09/08/2005 11:11:03 AM PDT by Old Student (WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
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