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took a bus and walked half and hour drove an AMG and its raining cats and dogs forgot to give the mech the water pump gaskets and cant find em myself arrrrrrgghhh

Decided to migrate back thru the snow and sleet to starbucks and will stay here all day. This mini blizzard is rediculous!!!!!

had my car break down in the middle of nowhere Alabama, and I wasn't have it towed to some random shop with all of the A/V equipment in the back so I had it put on a flatbed and towed 166 miles at $3.50 a mile all the way home!!! It was expensive but I don't trust my car to just anyone!!!

Fixed my Code 42 CEL!
Helllll yeeee! Been bugging me for almost a year and finally got it fixed, all by my self, so proud, haha

Go snow drifting in my 97 Sebgring. Not a bad idea, lol

Details Kel, what happened?

got up at 4am, walked outside, looked around, went back inside and called work saying that i wasn't coming in today. then checked my email, bought a gt4 hood and hood latch, shoveled the ~20 inches of snow with the good'ol 4+foot snow drifts.. came back inside and watch dawn of the dead, now I'm here.

Code 42 is a common problem on ST205's. What it is is the ECU has no idea what speed the vehicle is going at a specific time when between 2,000 and 5,000 rpms.
The 205 had a Apexi Rev/Speed meter installed when I purchased the vehicle and it looked like crap so I tore it out.
Problem is the Apexi was tapped into the ECU to pick up the speedometer, so when i removed it, it had a broken line that I had no idea about. Drove it like this for about a year and just randomly the CEL would come on, was frustrating as hell.

I finished up work early today so I decided to tear into my car and found the broken wire on the ECU, soldered it up, and we are in business. Car idles and fires up sooooooo much better now. I`m a happy camper today.

I'm assuming your mileage should improve as well. Nice work!

Came in the mail.....what colors should I do?

My honest answer? I'd be really tempted to just flat black the piss out of those.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Feb 2, 2011 - 6:29 PM

I got some of that "black chrome" paint. Did my toyota emblem with it, not too bad....need a warmer day. SO black with clear inserts? Cause I still need to get the rest of the resin out.

Woke up at 4:00am, got ready to go to work and walked out the door. Looked around and didn't see that much snow until i went on my way to work. Turn onto CR-N in appleton and got about 1/2 to HWY 10 and spun out. I could only see about 3 ft in front of me and hit a snow drift higher than my front end.
I remember spinning about 8-10 times and found my self on the other side of the road pointing home. I took it as a hint and went home. Checked over the car and found i now need a driver's side wheel bearing, axle and a 4 wheel alignment. :-( Also found out that the axle they gave me thats installed is for an automatic. I have a manual tranny.... About time for a "facepalm".

Code 42 has been replaced by code 54. Intercooler coolant is low, another job to do tomorrow!

Stepped outside, walked up the street about two mins to my car, and started suck on my fingers to keep them warm. This weather is crazy. Texas, I will c u next week baby.

broke 155k

Walked outside to get in my car, door opens but it wouldnt close, proceeded to take off my doorpanel off and head to campus.... minus doorpanel, on a side note its about 10x louder without the doorpanel in place

Bought an SS-III grille to make up for scratching the bottom of my side skirt doing a favor for a friend. Hooray.

Fixed my code 54 with new Toyota Red Life Coolant topping up the intercooler.

Still stumped on my idling issue.

started throwing a p0401 cel again! i just replaced the egr vsv a few months ago and the egr itself is fine i'm stumped, is it possible the brand new egr vsv went bad already after only 6k miles?