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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 09:37 PM
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What is the potential damage that may occur if driving around with a P0300 and a P0306 (misfire cylinder 6) OBD II Code, it may be a few day till i am able to get to the mechanic or to the shop? Just wondering if it'll f' it up bad. Thanks for the help
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 06:08 AM
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anyone??
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 07:24 AM
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You're probably okay as long as it's misfiring and not backfiring. My bet is you have a bad fuel injector (that's the exact problem I had on mine). I drove it for at least a year and finally got around to fixing it and now it's fine. hurts your gas mileage though.
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 07:44 AM
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Ya, im hoping its not the Fuel injector (the one thing my guy isnt covering on his "warranty") but have read it could also possibly be a coil or spark plug. But Hey, it could be worse . Thanks for the input and hopefully i will get to it next week at some point.
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 07:47 AM
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you could always get a philips screw driver and take off the dist cap and see what it looks like in there. 2 min and if its corroded or messes up inside there anyone that knows the smallest bit about a car could replace the cap and rotor!
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 11:25 AM
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hmm, i am just going to take it as i can drive it, but don't beat the crap out of it thanks for the input, read a lot of other peoples problems with it... seems its pretty annoying and a pain to fix since it could be like 1 and a half million things.
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 01:55 PM
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Very common problem for the 2000-01 xj's, you need the heat sheild for # 3 injector from the dealer, and then you should use the heat sheilds for spark plug boots cut to fit over all the injectors. Yes I've been there and fixed that.Name:  worky.gif
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Old Aug 10, 2011 | 03:31 PM
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ya, it seems that way. I was reading one users post about all the different stuff he did (literally everything). Then it came down to a head, after that seemed to work fine for him.
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