GIRL POWER!! fixed my car by myself

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Registered: 05-14-2003
GIRL POWER!! fixed my car by myself
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Sat, 05-13-2006 - 2:14pm

We have a 99 toyota sienna(that we own YEAH) and my check engine light came on this week and really freaked me out. Not only is it the only car we own big enough for all the kids but DH is gone on new job and I have no support in my area for help. Plus we just spent $$ to have it painted and I was wishing we had saved it for all the work I would need to have done on it.

SO...thanks to cl-beckys previous advice I took it to auto zone and had them hook me up to the machine(free) and it said I either needed a new fuel cap(bought one right then for $6) or one of my vacuum hoses was loose. Called friend and her DH looked under the hood and said it all looked good to him. This morning my check engine light went off!!

So not only did I do it myself but it only cost $6!! I am so stinking happy I could scream....

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Sat, 05-13-2006 - 5:08pm

Yay!!!!!!!!!!

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Sat, 05-13-2006 - 7:10pm
Great job!!!!



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Registered: 05-09-2005
Sat, 05-13-2006 - 7:15pm
Outstanding!! I'm impressed.
Megan
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Mon, 05-15-2006 - 12:03pm
Ah, the good old "vapor lock"! That happened to me the last time I went to FL. 800 miles from home, and it starts running AWFUL and the check engine light came on. I called DH and he asked if I had just filled up with gas (which I had). To "fix" it, all I had to do was take off the gas cap and put it back on again. It took just a few minutes before it started running well.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 05-15-2006 - 5:53pm

you go, girl. more power to yah.

mym

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Mon, 05-15-2006 - 8:15pm
Great News!

All my best,
Danni