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Mike
dallasdude
life of me see how that could be a 400.00 + job. I guess I will hang out my sign as a Catera tech,. Ha Ha Ha...... the guys on the board have been a big help to me in this endever. thanks folks. L not bad for an "old fart" at 78 eh. we, my wife and I do love our catera, she will not give it up.........
http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadillac-catera-cimarron-forum/67854-98-cat- era-crankshaft-position-sensor-replacement.html
Let us know how it goes....
The other lights I have no knowledge of. Good luck!
#2. I dont know if its my battery or alternator but as the car is still/in park my battery sometimes loses power but as i'm driving its like its recharging b/c the meter goes back up. When I turn the car off, it has to sit about an hour or so to start up. I replaced the battery yesterday but i havent been in it enough to test it.
#3 the place i took the car to claimed to have done a tune-up but my car still shakes like it did before the tune-up. When I come to a stop it shakes. When i drive it shakes.
Can someone please help me?! any help would be tremendously appreciated.
Good luck
Good luck
I have the same voltage problem. I'll drive for a while and the car wont start up. Then I'll notice te voltage reading low when I'm parked or at a red light. The gauge will go back up once I start driving....but back down again once i'm sitting still. One day my car wouldnt crank so we had someone to TRY to jump the battery off. the battery didnt take a charge. We treid for about 20 minutes and realized that ANOTHER problem is the neutral switch.
The funny thing is this is probably the 4th time ive been wanting to trade this car in, it goes down. Then we (parents) have to scuffle for a way to put money into the car to get it running. Once its running, we never seem to have the money at the right time to trade the car in and get a new one. EVERYTIMe its the same thing. its like the car reads our minds and says "Oh no you wont get rid of me" lol. Never fails
About 3 months ago, I was veeeery low on gas so I went to a little off-brand gas station.....it was seriously the only one I could make it to. The car had been a little shaky so I figured it was b/c i was low on gas. After I got the gas, the car got worse and my dad told me i needed a tune-up....because the car was shaking and skipping. I also had to fix the coolant leak. i got the leak and the tune-up at the same time but the car got worse. While trying to drive it from the service shop, the car wouldnt stay on when I took my feet off the gas. I think that was b/c it was a vaccum tube left off. It was throwing out white smoke from the exhaust. Every problem has been since then. From the neutral switch to the battery to the transmission.
Get "Pimp My Ride" to hook you up!!!
It cranks like it is out of time it also has no signal coming out of the pcm for the AIT sensor. Has anybody had any such problems? It rolled in my shop running fine with only a water leak on the right head.ANY help would be greatly appreciated
Only some dealerships sent their technicians off to train on the Catera. Others passed and are ill prepared to work on Euro cars. A while back they couldn't even jump start mine because so and so was not in that day. The service adviser was sure it was something big. It was the battery and the overflow tank was leaking. Needless to say, its just bad news if you break down away from home.
I trust that when the timing belt was replaced the tensioner and pulleys were as well replaced? In any case please tell what the timing belt replacement runs. Then the reworking of the heads is because of warp age? There is no way that the oil cooler is leaking? Many folks out there have had head work done only to find out that a banjo bolt had come loose on the transmission cooler.
Dealers are not going to admit to errors by their service dept's. I've seen them forget to put on the oil cap, over tighten oil plugs/oil filter housings, and other silly errors. Service writers live on commission and rarely turn down work. Everyone is on commission and therefore in a hurry and poorly trained. The whole thing is pathetic. Then they are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong and or blame unions for their indolence. In Europe the Opel Omega is one of the most reliable cars made and here its a nightmare?
Ohh well, it is a Catera afterall...
I read somemore of the post on here and seen where alot of people routed it along the manualfold. That is what I told my husband and the job actually took 5 min, from start to finish.
Thank you for your help and the others also.
I keep a jumper box in the car just in case. Does anyone know if these voltmeters are highly innacurate or is their another piece to the puzzle? I figure if there is a relay in the circuit that is bad it's either on or off. A fuse would be blown. Are there any knowledgeable ideas out there? I live in Denver if anyone knows a dealer or repair facility that has a good Catera mechanic. I'm good at replacing parts but diagnosing is not my forte. I don't want a mechanic throwing parts at it.