Took the wife's Flex in for a CEL (evap system leak), a slight shudder at idle in gear, and an oil leak. After first inspection, they said I had a bad PCV system which caused a vacuum leak and also caused the oil leak that developed around the valve cover and ran down the block. They say the EVAP leak is what was causing misfire codes on #2 and 7, which caused the shudder. New parts flown in from all over to replace the PCV and EVAP systems will make it go away...ok...
Test drive number 1, leak gone, shudder didn't go away. Checked out again and the misfires didn't go away. Said spark plugs needed to be replaced and mentioned something about a TSB regarding degrading spark plugs...ok...
Test drive number 2. Car still has misfire on cylinder #2. Diagnosis is coil pack is weak/bad, move coil to confirm...ok...
Test drive number 3. Misfire stays on cylinder #2...sweet.
They finally did the compression test that I asked them to do when they first said the PVC system had such a large amount of oil. I know these cars tend to dump a fair bit of oil in the CCV system, but this was excessive by the dealers standards. My thought is that there had to be a reason for the excess crank case pressure pushing that much oil around. Since my warranty was up, I wanted them to be VERY thorough. Well, come to find out that cylinder #2 has very low compression.
They are tearing it down now. Should be interesting to see what they find...my guess is that this goes along with the chatter (at every start up and sometimes under load) that I have been complaining about since the car had 30k on it, that they have never been able to diagnose. I'll be they might find bad rings, and possibly a scored bore since I'm betting there was a little extra movement in the piston.
Car is just shy of 73k and other than being tuned for about 300 miles (wife didn't care for the extra power...weirdo), it is completely stock with synthetic oil every 4k miles (better oil, shorter intervals than recommended by dealer).
Test drive number 1, leak gone, shudder didn't go away. Checked out again and the misfires didn't go away. Said spark plugs needed to be replaced and mentioned something about a TSB regarding degrading spark plugs...ok...
Test drive number 2. Car still has misfire on cylinder #2. Diagnosis is coil pack is weak/bad, move coil to confirm...ok...
Test drive number 3. Misfire stays on cylinder #2...sweet.
They finally did the compression test that I asked them to do when they first said the PVC system had such a large amount of oil. I know these cars tend to dump a fair bit of oil in the CCV system, but this was excessive by the dealers standards. My thought is that there had to be a reason for the excess crank case pressure pushing that much oil around. Since my warranty was up, I wanted them to be VERY thorough. Well, come to find out that cylinder #2 has very low compression.
They are tearing it down now. Should be interesting to see what they find...my guess is that this goes along with the chatter (at every start up and sometimes under load) that I have been complaining about since the car had 30k on it, that they have never been able to diagnose. I'll be they might find bad rings, and possibly a scored bore since I'm betting there was a little extra movement in the piston.
Car is just shy of 73k and other than being tuned for about 300 miles (wife didn't care for the extra power...weirdo), it is completely stock with synthetic oil every 4k miles (better oil, shorter intervals than recommended by dealer).