Peakster's Geo Thread

[Peakster]

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My car has made an unexpected early arrival at the mechanic shop. I drove to school this morning with my usual driving techniques (high throttle loads at low rpm) and everything was fine.

An hour later after my class I got into my car to drive home when I immediately noticed that the Geo had extremely sluggish acceleration. If I let up on the gas it was fine, but unless I was doing 10% throttle loads the engine would simply misfire and it occasionally stalled when stopped at traffic lights, etc.

My "service engine soon" light blinked and I managed to use the almighty Scangauge to find the trouble code: P0303. According to my mechanic it means 'misfire on cylinder 3' so it could be anything really. In the end I parked the Geo in the shop parking lot (I had made an appointment for Thursday anyway for oil leaks).

The only other vehicular option I have right now is to drive my dad's '95 Silverado truck:

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It would probably get 9 mpg at this time of year (to make it worse, it's not compatible with the SGII). I'll most likely just wake up earlier and carpool with my dad and sister to university the next couple of days. It would be nice if I could see a FE improvement after the Geo is fixed.