haiiii guys, anyone ever had a cracked head gasket before? blown head gasket before?
guess what i do!!
so that rough idle issue i have been having was nothing fuel related spark related, but a gasket leak at cylinder 1.....
finnally got fed up with it replacing things that didnt help and took it to the dealership, they ran a pressure/vacuum test and saw my coolant resivior bubbling and the master scanner showing 31 missfires on cylinder 1.....
the odd part is my car never picked up the ses light for it, but the tech said this could of started 10 even 15k miles ago and only slowly got worse to the point i noticed it.
the tech was very knowlegable and very trustworthy, he advised me that the missfire was so slight the engine was compensating it by adjusting spark on the opposite cylinder to compensate for the slight missfire...
as for the DTC's i got for "lower catalyst efficiency below threshold" and "bank 1 too lean" he believes that this gasket problem is the cause for it, showing sign that its burning slight amounts of coolant effing my a/f ratios up....
so i have a warrenty havent heard back from them about it, but the dealer advised me its a 20 hour job and will most likely cost 1600$
but whats funny is i can get a brand new LA1 for 1200$.......i can approach this many ways, i can have my warrenty take care of it for a couple hundred, buy a new motor, or go all out and buy ALL the top end upgrades for my current motor....
so once again stuck in a rock and a hard place, and i hope some of you can share my woes and understand why i hate this motor....
what would you do if you were in my shoes?
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