alright, I was on my way home and my car started sputtering bad. It sounds like a subaru and the engine light started blinking. I got her home and vag'd it and pulled these codes. I think it is a bad coilpack(s) but tell me what you think.

codes from shadetree pro diag:
16395 A camshaft position (bank 1): timing over advanced or system performance [sporadic](I have gotten this one before and was told it was due to aggresive timing)

16840 Evaporative Emission system: leak detected (very small)

16684 Random / Multiple cylinder: misfire detected

16686 Cylinder 2 misfire detected

any help is very much appreciated

 

bump, any help would be great. any techs out there have any idea. I'm low on funds reight now due to the market here being in a slump. I am hoping it's just a coilpack and not something major. it came out of no where and was running perfect until this happened.

 

swap the coilpacks with another one and see if u get the misfire code in the other cylinder. as for the evp emission, check ur gas cap, otherwise it could be the SAP leak detection thinging i believe.

 

THANKS! I'll try that and see how it goes. what is the SAP leak detection thing? Btw how do I know which cylinder is which?

 

it should say on ur engine. search for it. i don't remember

 

ok, so I cleared the codes, tightened the gas cap, switched cylinder 2 coilpack to cylinder 1 and now cylinder 1 is missing so I am now positive that it is the coilpack that went dead, again. Thanks for the help. Now I just need to go get a new coilpack. thank god it's not that bad.

 

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If u want to be done with the problem, geta set of hitachi E coilpacks and be done with it..... the chance of those going are slim to nill...

 

i had the same codes on mine, exept for the evap one. and i swapped the coils and surprizingly the misfires changed too, replaced them,
it still sputtered,
it turned out to be my O2 sensor, just telling u, if its not ur coils
good luck

 

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