Thread: 2000 Metro cold start problem: missing, backfiring, stalling
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Old 08-12-2018, 03:46 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
I've experienced a vacuum leak on a MAF hose before, and it was similar, but not as bad as these symptoms.

I'm up to 8 cold starts with no probs since putting the Metro's coil back in.

However the car did throw a p0400 code on a 200 km trip this weekend. Intermittent EGR valve problem (I've seen it once before). I wonder how a stuck-open EGR valve would make it run.


I need to take it off & clean the valve &passages.
Cool. I think you have to consider that the stuck open EGR valve could be the entire problem right there. Or at least it and some other minor factors like connectors for your coil have been intermittently contributing to your rough idle and rough running. I mean, the symptoms of that code would be what you've been experiencing, correct?
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