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Share your adventures! / Re: River Adventures
« on: August 18, 2015, 12:09:04 am »
I got this checked out by my local mechanics. They ended replacing all the plug wires. Here's what bugs me: when we bought the van 4 years ago or so, we had them do a full tune up including replacing plug wires. Part of what drove this was a CEL that was sporadically coming on. The van worked great for a year or so, but the the CEL came on again and it was clearly misfiring but fiddling with the spark plug wires seemed to temporarily solve the problem. Took it back in and they replaced the wires (charged for labor and not parts) citing bad wires. Now the same problem crops up again! In 4 years and about 8,000 miles, I'm on my third set of spark plug wires! In my 35 years of driving and a dozen cars or I have never gotten new plug wires. What's the deal?
I'm a bit dismayed at this point because the CEL seems to always come on during big trips involving long river shuttles. Having a reliable vehicle is pretty important for river trips as there are several groups going with you and the river permits are for set dates. A vehicle failure can kill a trip that tools tons of planning and permit acquiring and coordinating several groups.
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I'm a bit dismayed at this point because the CEL seems to always come on during big trips involving long river shuttles. Having a reliable vehicle is pretty important for river trips as there are several groups going with you and the river permits are for set dates. A vehicle failure can kill a trip that tools tons of planning and permit acquiring and coordinating several groups.
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