My paramedic kid has a 2010 Forte sedan, 2.0 auto, 125,000 km so 70,000-ish miles. He loves it... but it has recently acquired the annoying habit of chugging and throwing a CEL. His indy guy has tried two sets of plugs, with the second set being free warranty replacements. They have also replaced two ignition coils, although my son is coming to realize that maybe doing all four would have been better than just doing the one that scanned bad each time.
In my son's line of work, a reliable car is non-negotiable, so this must be fixed.
The indy guy seems competent, with a business built on high-end German stuff (like a Panamera hybrid with rad leaks after some lunatic took it off-roading.) However, this hive knows everything, so are there Forte-specific things my son should be looking at?
#1 What codes is it throwing?
#2 throwing parts at it isn't a good sign of a competent mechanic. Its sounds like something I'd do and I know how incompetent I am.
This sounds a lot like mine when the Variable intake stepper motor took a dump. It stuck in hte short runner position so low speeds it would sputter, chug and sometimes die throwing misfire codes along with the intake motor code. Fixing one fixed the others.
Point taken on the parts throwing. I'll find out about the exact codes. Interesting note about the variable intake stepper motor. I'll pass it on! Thanks, Bob.
Peabody
UltimaDork
7/9/20 4:00 p.m.
Sometimes they can help, sometimes not, but it's not a terrible resource
KDM Ontario
So apparently there's some kind of virus or something going around that makes every little task take WAY longer than it should.
The kid made a temporary swap for my Rondo and went back to work. I can report only negative progress: (1) no codes or misbehaviour whatsoever during the limited driving I've given it; (2) turns out this Forte is a very early production model (September 2009) and it does not use a stepper motor. Rats. That sounded so perfect, too.
Peabody, thanks for the link. We're exploring.
