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Old Oct 28, 2007 | 05:57 AM
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Can somebody please help me,

I have a 2003 civic si, i had a stereo and alarm professionally put in. when i got it back the number 2 cylinder wouldnt work. I changed the spark plugs and changed the distributors, and still it doesnt work. Im thinking the installers fried my cpu. Any idea's?
 
Old Oct 28, 2007 | 03:56 PM
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What do you mean like DONT WORK? like a dead hole??? in that case take spark plug out poor a VERY TINY BIT OF motor oil down the spark plug chamber start it up, you will see mad smoke but hopefully you can revive the cylinder
 
Old Oct 28, 2007 | 05:50 PM
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Injector clogged? I dono, if it happened right after you got it back from whoever installed that stuff you should probably call them.
 
Old Oct 28, 2007 | 08:27 PM
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did you replace your wires too? could've also been that.
 
Old Oct 29, 2007 | 12:40 PM
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lol Wow worst installation ever. Did you get it done at BestBuy?
 
Old Nov 1, 2007 | 03:49 AM
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Yes, it was done at bestbuy. Dont ever take your car there, thought I was getting a deal and saving some loot on the install. It ended up they spliced a wire that sent a signal to that cylinder when they fed the wires through the firewall. I made them payto get it fixed($230) and I got them to throw in a rockford fosgate sub ($250) for free, for all my trouble. And they gave an instore credit for the install ($100)

Thanks for your help guys
 
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