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take that car to your local parts store, most will put the diagnostic machine (ODB-II scanner) on your car for free since its newer then a 96 (they will read some 95 year cars as well). but you can find out what is causing the Check engine light to come on. when they do run the diag on your car make sure to write down all of the error codes and every thing else it says. and have them clear the error codes.
this is one reason i like newer cars cause the computer when hooked to a ODB-II scanner will basicly tell you just about everything wrong with it (engine wise), but i sometimes dont like the price that comes allong in fixing some of them.
one thing you can do to quiet the valves is to do a oil change and subsitute one quart of regular oil with a bottle of lucal oil stabilizer (make sure you do not mix the synthetic with regular oil treatment, cause bad things can happen if you do). then take a small bottle of lucas injector cleaner and put it in a full tank of gas. that should help it a bit.
i had a noisy tick and doing that took care of the problem and made the engine run allot quieter. i would look over the heat sheilds to see if any are loose and see if any can be tightened or put something on them (like exsaust reapair putty) its a temp fix but it does work if done right and will stop that noisy rattle from the heat shield.
what i did was take some of that putty and made a little ball of it (big enough to hardly fit between the heat shield and the exsaust) and let it set out untill it got thick but not dried to allow you to put between the heat shield and the exsaust.
was the stock air intake replaced with a cold air intake, if it was that can cause some issues making the engine light come on. some times to much of a airflow intake will cause some sensors to freak out.
but anyway nice score. BTW what did you do with the bug, i do know those things are a PITA in the winter.
take that car to your local parts store, most will put the diagnostic machine (ODB-II scanner) on your car for free since its newer then a 96 (they will read some 95 year cars as well). but you can find out what is causing the Check engine light to come on. when they do run the diag on your car make sure to write down all of the error codes and every thing else it says. and have them clear the error codes.
this is one reason i like newer cars cause the computer when hooked to a ODB-II scanner will basicly tell you just about everything wrong with it (engine wise), but i sometimes dont like the price that comes allong in fixing some of them.
one thing you can do to quiet the valves is to do a oil change and subsitute one quart of regular oil with a bottle of lucal oil stabilizer (make sure you do not mix the synthetic with regular oil treatment, cause bad things can happen if you do). then take a small bottle of lucas injector cleaner and put it in a full tank of gas. that should help it a bit.
i had a noisy tick and doing that took care of the problem and made the engine run allot quieter. i would look over the heat sheilds to see if any are loose and see if any can be tightened or put something on them (like exsaust reapair putty) its a temp fix but it does work if done right and will stop that noisy rattle from the heat shield.
what i did was take some of that putty and made a little ball of it (big enough to hardly fit between the heat shield and the exsaust) and let it set out untill it got thick but not dried to allow you to put between the heat shield and the exsaust.
was the stock air intake replaced with a cold air intake, if it was that can cause some issues making the engine light come on. some times to much of a airflow intake will cause some sensors to freak out.
but anyway nice score. BTW what did you do with the bug, i do know those things are a PITA in the winter.