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Another V6 DIC goes bye-bye
Posted by Chris [Email] (more from Chris) on Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:22:34
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For being a defective part, this DI gave me a remarkably long warning period. Driving from Portland, OR back to Boise at the end of the Christmas weekend, I saw the CEL light up on the dash. Figuring it was a minor emissions issue, I continued the rest of the 450 mile drive with it lit up. Then I continued to drive around town with the CEL blinking occasionally for the next three weeks. Finally took it in to my local Saab indy and he diagnosed it as a DI on its last legs. He'd never seen a V6 9-5 with an ailing DI so this was a new one on him.
Bought one on-line from eeuroparts. The day before it arrived the CEL was blinking on and off the entire 10 minute commute home from work. I figured I'd cheated death long enough and let the 9-5 sit until I dropped the new DI in that weekend. Its been over a week now with the new DI and the CEL has disappeared and everything is copacetic (sp?). Seems to run smoother too.
You V6 9-5 owners may want to note: when the DI starts to go bad and the CEL is blinking, that means that the cylinders are actively mis-firing (symptom of impending DI death). When it stays steady, its stopped mis-firing but the code has been set. The mechanic used a Tech-II to see that the mis-fires were occurring in all the cylinders on one cylinder bank. This virtually ensured that the DI was culprit.
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