[s-cars] Was Bad CPS - Now No Compression or Spark

[Sean Douglas]

No compression would indicate bent valves. Either your timing belt broke
when you were playing with the STI (doubtful) or the mechanic messed up
the timing belt job. If it was the former, I'm sure someone would have
noticed the broken belt.

No spark could be the fuse at the ECU.

Sean

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> Subject: [s-cars] Was Bad CPS - Now No Compression or Spark
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> 
> So by the time I got in touch with the Service Advisor to 
> arrange having  the 
> car towed to my independent mechanic they were already in the 
> midst of  
> replacing the sensor.  The SA again swore up and down that 
> there was no  other way 
> to change it.
>  
> So right before I am about to head home from work the SA 
> calls to tell me  
> that it still will not start.  He says it has no spark.  He 
> said that  the coils 
> checked out OK.  He also said that they checked the 
> compression  and it came 
> up only 35-70 lbs in each cylinder.  He did say that the 
> fluids  looked clean 
> and the (straight) valves and camshaft look almost new so 
> they do  not 
> understand why so low.  Car just turned 82k miles and was 
> running  strong.
>  
> WTF?  Did they put the belt on wrong?  Note that car died 
> about 5  mins after 
> going at it hard with a STI on the local parkway.  Car did 
> not  die all of a 
> sudden but check engine light came on and I felt a loss of 
> power  and car 
> completely died after limping about another mile.  Once car 
> cooled  down I still 
> could not start it. _______________________________________________
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