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My little 93 Laser 1.8 has run flawlessly until two nights ago. I took a female friend of mine out. We first drove about 2 miles to advance auto, I had to pickup brakes, and when I came out with my new set of pads I noticed a nice green puddle under the car. The upper radiator hose cracked and leaked out most of my fluid. I broke down at the right place though, I was able to get a hose and fluid easily... THE CAR DID NOT OVERHEAT.. I freaking stare at that gauge more than the road since I blew the HG in April. Problem solved. Right? Nope. Maybe twenty minutes later my homemade PVC intake works its way off. First time since I put it on, so figure four months ago? It happened in a parking lot, so the car ran without the maf detecting air for maybe 30 seconds. Again, it was an easy fix, and when I got back in the car there was no CEL.
The next night I'm with this same girl driving and the car starts to overheat, not dramatically, just enough where the fans SHOULD have come on, and they didn't. I drove the car home and the car never overheated while I was in motion.
The next day I did the basic troubleshooting diagnosis and found that the cooling temp sensor was bad, thus not grounding the relay for the fans, thus the fans weren't coming on.
Problem solved right? Nope... Now I got a CEL. The car runs flawlessly but it's throwing a code. So I disconnected the negative cable to the battery and turned the key to start 3 times, which should have cleared the codes. I let the car run for five minutes and violla, the code returns. I can't find an OBD I reader. I know somewhere in that haynes manual it tells me how to pull codes or something, but for the life of me I cannot find that page. I really don't want to buy a logging cable for a 1.8 (is that even possible?) so any help, or direction, is appreciated. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to outline exactly what happened.
And yes, the car is a jealous bitch.
The next night I'm with this same girl driving and the car starts to overheat, not dramatically, just enough where the fans SHOULD have come on, and they didn't. I drove the car home and the car never overheated while I was in motion.
The next day I did the basic troubleshooting diagnosis and found that the cooling temp sensor was bad, thus not grounding the relay for the fans, thus the fans weren't coming on.
Problem solved right? Nope... Now I got a CEL. The car runs flawlessly but it's throwing a code. So I disconnected the negative cable to the battery and turned the key to start 3 times, which should have cleared the codes. I let the car run for five minutes and violla, the code returns. I can't find an OBD I reader. I know somewhere in that haynes manual it tells me how to pull codes or something, but for the life of me I cannot find that page. I really don't want to buy a logging cable for a 1.8 (is that even possible?) so any help, or direction, is appreciated. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to outline exactly what happened.
And yes, the car is a jealous bitch.