I took the advice of the club and tested the coil pak. the reading should be 5.08 for my 97 pontiac bonneville se. I got readings on secondary windings of 6.88 - 7.02 on all three coils. are the coils bad. I didn't disconnect the battery (negative). Would that hinder the reading or do I just need to ...

I just wrote a reply but lost it somewhere in internet land. I took the MAF sensor off while the car was running and it started to run poorly very rough idle. i kept it off for over a minute and it ran shoddy until i put it back on and the car went back to about 850 rpm. also I haave a ohm meter but ...

wow if you read my posts you would have read that not only did I change the plugs but the wires too, and still the problem persists. I am not asking anyone to fix the car and I did the plugs and wires myself, today I am checking the resistance on the coil pak before I spend any money on that. I ...

no one has any advice for me. other than change the plugs clean the MAF and use carb cleaner to check for leaks.
well I did not change the plugs but did everything else.
symptoms: after idling or starting and shutting off and starting right away, car will not start up, and when it does it (the ...

hello my friends at the Bonneville club,
I went today to the inspection station in NJ. I knew I was going to fail . I waited idling for an hour, and by the time I got inside
i was confident that my car was going to stall and give me problems. I don't know why because the car had been behaving so ...

I just read the tech info regarding the coil. I am baffled at how little I know. U mean to tell me that I have to know this to change the coil on my car. And I just cant follow the chiltons service manual in installing the coil. I understood one thing that getting a good coil is important. So I ...

I am going to the junkyard and getting a maf. I don't know how to check for vacuum leaks but I will look over the whole engine for any loose or hoses that are open. as far as the spark plugs i put in autolite platinums. the cheap ones for 2.99. now i have to put a corresponding coil on. do i have ...

good morning club members,

I had 6 codes and then I did some work and did a tuneup 0r a partial one with the money that I had and it seemed to relieve me of 3 codes, but 3 still exist they are all emission problems and my inspection is due.


first code PO171 - explaination - the powertrain ...

I just changed the plugs and the wires. The car is running so much better however the engine light is still on and every once and a while as i am driving the car seems to jerk a couple of times. nothing major, just a couple of bump,bump and it is usually as I am giving it gas as I am approaching a ...

thanks I will try that. A friend mentioned that might be the problem. My brother is coming tonight and we are going to fix the wires and the spark plugs. But I am afraid that as long as the crankshaft sensor unit is screwed up, it is going to give me headaches when I ride. and the fix is a pain in ...

I went to Autozone and they gave me a readout that kind of blew my mind. Please let me describe it to everyone and see if some of you can make some sense of all of this.

Problem No: 1

PO171 - Fuel Trim one condition.
Explanation.
The Powertrain Control Module uses the oxygen sensor to calculate ...

now it seeems that the noise has not been half as loud as it was that morning where it was piercing. coming from the belt area after I had driven about 20 miles. using a highway. but since then I hear it but it is not so loud. I cant isolate it I have tried. I will wait till it does it again and I ...

Hello
My car is making a ringing noise around the belts when it is warmed up. I am wondering if it is the harmonic balancer. Any help would be appreciated.

hello everyone,
I was getting my car towed on the 20th of may when the operater of the tow truck was wenching the car to the truck while my 1997 Pontiac Bonneville was hooked up to the truck. just about when he was finished the chain snapped and my car shot off the truck because it was on a 30 ...

The mechanic at GM fixed the problem. He said that the man who installed the column went to a GM dealership and they gave him the wrong key. imagine that a GM shop with the option of 15 giving the wrong key and the GM mechanic at Mall Chevrolet managed to do a jump that eliminated the security ...

Hello Fellow Pontiac Owners,
I am back again hoping to get some advice, and I think that this issue will be a simple one. I, for the past couple of days have had trouble starting my car in the morning. it turns over once pauses then turns over once pauses. then I get off it and let it relax a ...

thanks again for listening and giving advice. the CC advice was a nice sour laugh. but in the end it was GM that got the car running. But the moron mechanic TIM, cleared the codes on the computer. Why? you got me. in any event I have to drive the car and wait till the engine light comes on or at ...

Not understanding what the Mechanic is doing... I agree with the above, all that should have been required was to have the proper pellet installed into the new key, the car should have started fine after that... Unless the Passkey wires in the column are broken in some manner...

another way would ...

someone told me that if I wanted to fix the problem all I needed to do was disconnect the wire from the battery and the starter. I don't know, I took advice that seemed easy and found myself changing a steering column and have yet to fix the problem that originally started all of this. anyway what ...

Hello everyone and thankyou for your advice on the problem of my steering column and the security system work around. My mechanic, Tom, he put a used column in the car and he then told me that because the column was different it came with a different key I was going to have to have it reprogrammed ...