• Zink@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      It can mean a misfire too.

      I had an old accord that basically lost a cylinder (blew a valve or something) but could still drive down the road with check engine blinking because that cylinder was “misfiring.”

      It happened far away from home too. I drove several dozen miles with my unintentional 3 cylinder swap.

      • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        To be fair, it can also mean “one of my fucking radiator fans is not responding quickly enough to computer control”

        Which was not a fun experience when that happened to me, full fucking BEEP BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER with a check engine and a STOP sign blaring on the digital system display panel, made me panic out of my mind because a radiator fan was a removed

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      8 months ago

      Typically it’ll happen when your engine misfires due to an ignition coil crapping out. So the engine is now firing on only 3 cylinders if it’s a 4cyl