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I am still going to look in to the automatic hub thing while towing just to make sure.
I am very impressed you perservered and got your radio to work. These trucks, even in the mid 90's are very simple vehicles to work on, and the more you work on your vehicle the more knowledgable you become. So when somebody tries to pull the wool over your eyes about work needed on your rig, you will know better, even if you are uncomfortable about doing the work yourself. You will at least understand what work is required.
Good choice on a used vehicle. On this website verses other vehicles you don't see this symbol. :lemon:
Thanks a lot for your help
These are some tires that I have had in the past and they are great, but with any traction tire, are relatively noisy. But I have gotten almost 50K out of a pair. Great tire.
http://www.toyo.com/tires/tire_specsheet.cfm?id=11
Picture of tire:
http://www.toyo.com/tires/tire_lines/off_road/m55.html
They have a 215/75 R15 size which is perfect for the Tracker.
Does anyone have a list of what the light is tied to? Is it just time?
I have a 98 4 door with the 4 cylinder engine and about164265 km's on it. This unit has always run great. In the last few weeks it has started to run a little rough at idle only so the gas treatment is in and running through it now.
Things have not improved with just gas treatment.
Next step is dealership for code reading.
I know it says Chevy on the front but does anyone have any history with Suzuki dealer service. Is it any better than Chevys or is their knowledge of this engine any better?
chris
Today while turning a corner the car just died. When I finally got it pulled over I let it sit for a few moments and tried to start it. EVerything electrical turned on and the engine tried its hardest to start. After about twice I gave up. I then called a tow truck.
Out of habit I turned the car completely off and took the keys out. When the tow truck arrived neither of us could get the stupid key switch to budge thus the steering column was locked up (that made for an interesting tow truck job, lol).
By the time we got to my home the tow truck driver tried the ignition switch again and this time it turned over (it needed some jiggling and wiggling). However the engine still could not turn over (it tried).
Over the past week the engine has been making this ticking noise. I was advised at that point to try adding some gas treatment to the engine as well as oil treatment (since the car has a lot of miles on it, almost all city miles too). It seemed to work for a while. But prior to the engine stopping itself the car while in a drive thru started to make the ticking noise again.
I always get my fuel at the same place and the car had a FULL tank of fresh gas in it without the additives. Not that it has anything to do with the problem, but hey.
happy trailing :shades:
chris
i love my tracker :shades:
I have a 96 Geo Tracker. I never had any problems with it until last March when my "service engine soon" light came on. I have had the car checked by three different shops. They thought it was a faulty oxygen sensor. They replaced the sensor, and the light went off, but when I took the car out on the highway at speeds above 60 mph, the light came back on again. In my state (Ohio) we are required to go through emissions testing before getting license tags. I understand that my car won't pass emissions inspection if the "service engine soon" light is on. Also, strangely enough, the tape player stopped working. Could the light and tape player be connected to some sort of security code? My next step is to go to the dealer. MGMoody - just wondering - what the the dealer do for your Tracker? Did they correct the problem? If so, how did they do it? I really want to hold on to this car as long as I can. I have 120K miles on it, and it's been a real road warrior.
Thank you very much!
chris
chris
After they test drove it it came back with a second error code and stalled again. This earned a changed out EGR valve. That seems to have fixed it.
We have not been driving it as much as we were just before it started having trouble but it does have a few hundred more kilometers on it and it is running fine again.
The Suzuki dealer does seem to be the way to go for knowledge but it did take them two days to get the EGR valve shipped in.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.