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1999 Nissan Pathfinder - SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT on Can't Get Passed INspection
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gibsgoinpro
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Jun 27, 2014, 11:52 PM
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1999 Nissan Pathfinder - SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT on Can't Get Passed INspection
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Hey Folks,
I Believe when the guy changed the VALVE COVER GASKET that when he was messing around in the engine he triggered something or didn't put things back correctly and it made my SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT come on and it's been on ever since. The SEL was not on ever before that and when I bought the car.
Real quick I'll explain the situation. I Bought the car used about 5-6 years ago. When I bought it, after a while I noticed a oil burning smell in engine. Took it to a friend of my dads friend and he changed the VALVE COVER GASKET. Important note to this is that when I bought the car and before I took it to this guy, my SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT was NOT on nor had never been on.
So when I go to pick up the car and start to leave, I notice that the SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT is on and is staying on. I tell the guy but he does nothing to make it right which was total bullSh!t. I guess I would have had to take him to court or something and who wants to do that crap. I was ignorant and young and did not know how serious this was to get an inspection.
THe past four years, I have taken my car every year to a mechanic to illegally I guess turn the light off with a computer then I drive the car a while and come back and he checks and I get it inspected. Well this year I couldn't do that and took it to like 6 mechanics and no one would do it. So I took it the shop with best reputation in town and they hooked up to their expensive comuter and replace EVG SOLENOID I believe it is called. Well, the next day after I got the car back, the SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT came back on. THe shop told me to bring it back Monday but I have hardly any faith in mechanics actually fixing it right the first time and honoring what they say. It cost around $300 for that.
Based on that, can someone please tell me what I should do or what it could be??
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Tom Greenleaf
Ultimate Carjunky
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Jun 28, 2014, 12:21 AM
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Re: 1999 Nissan Pathfinder - SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT on Can't Get Passed INspection
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Once is enough - this one locked now,
T
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