list things that have gone wrong from doing a repair that was possibly mentioned in the what did you do to your fiero thread or something that just randomly went wrong.
all of my plugs fouled out today in the middle of driving back home. happened 7 miles from home. i was lucky enough to get going 35 mph. held up lots of traffic. i know i pissed off a lot of those rich people SUVs, oh well. living life as a fiero owner
------------------ 1987 Fiero GT built by my brother, merlot566jka, 3500 LX9 from 06 Malibu, WOT-TECH.com 1280 grind stage 3 cam, LS6 valve springs, 1227730 ECM conversion, Darrel Morse solid aluminum cradle mounts, Truleo headers modified to fit the 3500, 36# inectors, 70mm 4.3 throttle body adapted to 3500 intake, ported heads, upper and lower intakes, lightly polished, tcemotorsports.com crank trigger wheel, CenterForce dual friction clutch, Flowtech Afterburner muffler, 2.5" piping, cat deleted, EGR deleted, SinisterPerformance tuning, C6 Corvette exhaust tips. projected to be 35 MPG with a guesstimate of 250 hp to the wheels
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Jarhead 2m4 Member
Posts: 1849 From: Missouri City, TX Registered: Jun 2006
Sister ran it out of gas last week. That seems to be the only trouble with it lately. That and the guages need fixing. Ever since I put the Speedhuts in, they have been off.
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03:29 AM
Kagen Member
Posts: 208 From: San Francisco, California Registered: May 2008
um today, my passenger window went off its track for no apparent reason, my oil pressure gauge is all the way past 80, i get maybe 12 miles per gallon, it started taking forever to start and when it does it idles at 2000 rpm.. haha sometimes I wonder why I love my car so much
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AusFiero Member
Posts: 11513 From: Dapto NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2001
Went to Autozone to get a new CTS. I take the old one out its definitely shot the plastic housing disintegrated as I was unplugging it. I go to put the new one in, and it is too narrow and doesn't fit in; the threads were the wrong size. Its part number (su 109) the part number needed is actually (tu157) but they don't stock it) Hopefully this will help others from making the same mistake. I know the sensor was bad it was the original. It wasn't corroded it was pitted with rust and the sensor part was crusty. I was like yup thats where my weird idle is coming from.
A/C compressor literally exploded when I pushed the button today! Scared me pretty good although I was waiting for it to happen. I have the old stock compressor and have been filling it with R134 a couple of years now.
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10:01 AM
Xerces_Blackthorne Member
Posts: 6163 From: Mertztown PA Registered: Mar 2008
Hopefully nothing, my boyfriend took it to work and he swears it hates him because it only has problems when he's driving. He took mine to work because a caliper on his Fiero locked up and ate the pad and rotor last week, we'll be fixing that problem tonight thanks to a big shipment from RockAuto yesterday.
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86stealthfiero Member
Posts: 667 From: zanesville ohio Registered: Aug 2008
rebuilt my driveaxle and installed my tilt steering , shes very stubborn (no offense ladies) but we are on a mutual agreement, while on the topic how do you get your picture to work on the signature thanks in advance i hear the fiero cracking the whip.
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ltlfrari Member
Posts: 5356 From: Wake Forest,NC,USA Registered: Jan 2002
Mine keeps mysteriously losing coolant, but whenever I open the thermostat housing it is always full
Man, you got those glycol-based gremlins. Take it to an exterminator.
As for mine, the motor mount has finally given up and I can hear the motor dancing around when i'm driving. The belt needs to be replaced. The gauge cluster wont light up. My blinkers dont work. The list of problems that I have fixed recently is longer though, so that's good.
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MidEngineManiac Member
Posts: 29566 From: Some unacceptable view Registered: Feb 2007
My car is still had to shift in the morning, don't know why. Only half my speedo gauge lights up. My tach stops working till I smack it and couldn't find the connector I lost for my headlights. Knock on wood but thats a good day for me.
Ryan
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AusFiero Member
Posts: 11513 From: Dapto NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2001
Put new tires on Friday, took it for a test drive and blew out a brake line on the way home. Rust is not you friend. This week it gets new brake lines from MC to each caliper, new shocks, new struts, and new end links.
Well nothing today but yesterday as i got off the highway and was on the off ramp, it wouldnt go into 1st gear...so there i was trying to jam it in and jamming the clutch into the floor as the line of cars behind me grew impatient and started to honk and swear at me. It finally went in and in a fit of rage i jammed on the gas, smoked the tires (well... smoked something anyway!) and drove my car the hardest ive ever driven it...not a good idea. Got to the stop light and the check engine light came on and the car was idling wildly going up and down between 1000 & 2000 RPM.
I was getting code 21 so i started to take a look at the TPS. I puilled everything off the TB and unhooked a bunch of stuff and realized i didnt know what i was doing..so I put it all back together and waited for my dad to get home to shed some light on the subject...of course when he showed up and i started the car to show him what was happening, it didnt do it anymore...it was idling smooth at 900 RPM. I took it for a run and it gave me no problems.
wow, so no ones fiero's broke in the last few days? i think hell has frozen over.
------------------ 1987 Fiero GT built by my brother, merlot566jka, 3500 LX9 from 06 Malibu, WOT-TECH.com 1280 grind stage 3 cam, LS6 valve springs, 1227730 ECM conversion, Darrel Morse solid aluminum cradle mounts, Truleo headers modified to fit the 3500, 36# inectors, 70mm 4.3 throttle body adapted to 3500 intake, ported heads, upper and lower intakes, lightly polished, tcemotorsports.com crank trigger wheel, CenterForce dual friction clutch, Flowtech Afterburner muffler, 2.5" piping, cat deleted, EGR deleted, SinisterPerformance tuning, C6 Corvette exhaust tips. projected to be 35 MPG with a guesstimate of 250 hp to the wheels
Well mine didn't brake down but. Well I hardly drive my fiero at night and only use it to drive to work and back and yesterday I did take it out for a spin around 8:00pm to go to the store and noticed that the left signal light will not work while the headlights are on. I turn the headlights off and the left signal lights work. So during the day the car is fine no headlights on, left signal light works, I turn the headlights on and the left signal light wont work. Need to check it out today after work.
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ICouldaBeenAV8 Member
Posts: 692 From: Chatsworth, California; Clearwater, Florida, and Milwaukee, Wisc. Registered: Jun 2003
Mine just got more dirty, and a bird crapped on it. Other than that the $27 in gas I put in it 3 weeks ago is almost gone............. DAXN 4 CYLINDER!
Well, nothing went wrong with the car. The problem is is that my wife lost her job so the GT got put on the back burner for now. Hopefully soon we will get back on track with a new job and the Fiero. Untill then I can talk to some of you and decide what performance upgrades I will go with.
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americasfuture2k Member
Posts: 7131 From: Edmond, Oklahoma Registered: Jan 2006
i thought i was burnin up sparkplugs from running so rich, but it turns out the car has been going into what seems to be "limp home mode" when it hits closed loop. darth will be able to tell me what it is
------------------ 1987 Fiero GT built by my brother, merlot566jka, 3500 LX9 from 06 Malibu, WOT-TECH.com 1280 grind stage 3 cam, LS6 valve springs, 1227730 ECM conversion, Darrel Morse solid aluminum cradle mounts, Truleo headers modified to fit the 3500, 36# inectors, 70mm 4.3 throttle body adapted to 3500 intake, ported heads, upper and lower intakes, lightly polished, tcemotorsports.com crank trigger wheel, CenterForce dual friction clutch, Flowtech Afterburner muffler, 2.5" piping, cat deleted, EGR deleted, SinisterPerformance tuning, C6 Corvette exhaust tips. projected to be 35 MPG with a guesstimate of 250 hp to the wheels
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Mine started acting up on the way to class today. It would occasionally make a sound like a bearing was going out in the alternator or water pump. On the way home it sounded horrible. All this in a period of a few hours. Now tomorrow morning I'll be trying to figure out where it's coming from and hopefully be up and running again by the end of the week.
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hurricanefloyd41 Member
Posts: 47 From: Morton, Pennsylvania Registered: Feb 2008
Wait...nothing has gone wrong with your Fiero in the last 10 years? just a worn out Alt.? Thats crazy!! Looks like you got the good one
the ONLY good one
------------------ 1987 Fiero GT built by my brother, merlot566jka, 3500 LX9 from 06 Malibu, WOT-TECH.com 1280 grind stage 3 cam, LS6 valve springs, 1227730 ECM conversion, Darrel Morse solid aluminum cradle mounts, Truleo headers modified to fit the 3500, 36# inectors, 70mm 4.3 throttle body adapted to 3500 intake, ported heads, upper and lower intakes, lightly polished, tcemotorsports.com crank trigger wheel, CenterForce dual friction clutch, Flowtech Afterburner muffler, 2.5" piping, cat deleted, EGR deleted, SinisterPerformance tuning, C6 Corvette exhaust tips. projected to be 35 MPG with a guesstimate of 250 hp to the wheels
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johnnyride Member
Posts: 326 From: Albany, New York, USA Registered: Feb 2002
Hopefully soon we will get back on track with a new job and the Fiero. Untill then I can talk to some of you and decide what performance upgrades I will go with.
