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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 05:44 PM
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the check engine light been on for 3yrs in my car . never bothered me till 6 months ago when i couldnt pass the inspection. now at 215,117miles, am about to sell the car. had these codes, 1 for the egr,2 for the temp sensor 3 for vac line. so i decided to change the vac lines yesterday.changed like 5 vac lines, unplugged and plugged back the battery for 5min. code is gone. drive the car for hours , nothing. vag my car, no code. maybe my vag not working. brought the car to autozone , there also found no emission codes.after 3yrs, all it took was a vac line sitting round and 15min to fix my car.
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 09:50 PM
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Wait a couple of days before you close the book.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 10:29 AM
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Default Crazy how that works

An you know if you thought it was something easy it wouls have taken days and maybe weeks to fix.
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