>My wife bought a 1993 245 a couple years ago which has been basically a
>lemon (I had bad feelings about this car and tried to talk her out of
>it, to no avail. Anyways...):
>The check engine light came on a couple of weeks ago. Simultaneously it
>needed a new battery during the severe cold weather spell we had and, of
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>1-1-1. In both cases the codes indicate that the fuel mixture is too
>lean or too rich.
No idea on the exact cause of those codes, but the problem sounds like
that could be caused by a bad O2 sensor.
>Another clue is that this car runs terribly at idle when the air
>temperature is cold. The idle lopes, rushing up and dropping back down.
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Are you hearing a whistling noise under the hood? Possible vacuum leak.
Gary

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Tim McNamara - 24 Feb 2008 04:52 GMT
> >My wife bought a 1993 245 a couple years ago which has been
> >basically a lemon (I had bad feelings about this car and tried to
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> No idea on the exact cause of those codes, but the problem sounds
> like that could be caused by a bad O2 sensor.
Is there a way to test this?
> >Another clue is that this car runs terribly at idle when the air
> >temperature is cold. The idle lopes, rushing up and dropping back
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> Are you hearing a whistling noise under the hood? Possible vacuum
> leak.
Hmm, that's not something I've noticed but an interesting possibility.