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Well i gave up!

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Ryan91Saleen

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i cant figure out what was wrong with my car the past few days.. so i took it to the ford dealership yesterday and i hope its nothing major

but thanks for all the help guys
 

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ugh, the problem may not be major, but the cash you'll spend will be sorry you couldn't figure it out dude.
 
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You should not take a 12yr old car with mods to the ford dealer. There is a good chance they will not fix it, but they will charge you alot of $. I took mine in for diagnosis to a couple of shops and they both told me they would not touch it because the emissions system was gone. They told me I was on my own and it would never run right without that stuff and a stock stat. I had to fix it myself.
 

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jerry beach said:
You should not take a 12yr old car with mods to the ford dealer. There is a good chance they will not fix it, but they will charge you alot of $. I took mine in for diagnosis to a couple of shops and they both told me they would not touch it because the emissions system was gone. They told me I was on my own and it would never run right without that stuff and a stock stat. I had to fix it myself.
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They are full of it! I wonder if there is some legal reason why they won't work on your car if you remove emissions equipment. Or if they just don't work on cars with performance upgrades. I have a 73 mustang and the dealer wouldn't work on it either. It was pretty stock back then though. So I got a few books and learned how to work on it myself and saved myself a whole bunch of money.
 
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Im so stupid they called me today and told my my sparkplug wires were in the wrong order? wtf i follow the chiltons book and did what it said but oh well im in the hole $225
 

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that sucks, but live and learn. you will remember the correct order from now on i bet.
 
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yea i know im going to write it down and laminate it
 

HISSIN50

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there is a different order for HO and non HO. hard lesson, but as cheap as you would ever get (if it had been something major and they did it, that would be ugly on the paycheck). so lesson learned. i know you tried, as i followed all of your threads.
dont sweat it.
as for shops, there are many (even private shops) that wont touch moded stuff. if i had a shop, i likely would not unless my tech guys were trained on working on such cars. they dont want to waste time chasing stuff cuz it doesnt work right together (im having flashbacks to that poor guy who gave his car to Larocca's awhile back. it was like a 10 page thread). just a business decision.
hope it runs well now.
 

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Don't feel too bad, I had mine towed to the dealer a long while back cause it was running horribly….. ended up being two broken plug wires! They were only a couple of years old, so I didn't even think to check or change them. A $40 set of wires cost me about $160!
 
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thanks guys
 
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