Lucky Fellow

Four days ago the Camry's "check engine" light went on. Cause: unknown. My brother and I was headed up to Beverly Hills to pick up his gf and on the way there the engine felt a little funky driving on the freeway. The engine felt like it was resisting a little bit when I tried to keep it on constant speed. Then one hour later, four blocks away from the pick-up house, the accelaration was completely gone unless I pushed the pedal all the way down. It was pretty scary driving at idle speed when the pedal was half way down.

My plan that day was to return to Hesperia to work on the MR2, but my brother said the Camry wouldn't make it. He took the wheel and we somehow made it back to OC. His solution was just to run a diagnostics test and see where it goes from there. Luckily, last monday, I asked Mr, Clyde (AT inst.) allowed me to bring the car in this morning as a test vehicle (we were working on sensors, good timing huh) for the class and run a diagnosis at the same time. His scanner is pretty cool, $1000+ peice of equipment.

Solution: A broken hose on the Mapping system leading to the intake.
It was pretty obvious, but to my eyes it was hidden treasure.

The diagnosis itself would've cost me $100 plus the new hose, which equals up to $110. Mr. Clyde was nice enough to throw the whole thing in for free, except he said that I would have to take his class next semester to make up for it. I smiled.

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