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Went to get my oil changed and the guy in the pit said that I have a tear in a rack and pinion boot. What is such a thing, where is it on the car, how do I check to see if it's really torn, and how much to get it fixed? I'm a woman and get told things by these places, so I want to check instead of say, 'oh, just fix it'. He did say that it is not leaking fluid.
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Those are good questions, and I don't know the answers, because it's the middle of summer. However my suspicion is that the conditions outside are not a factor. Week before last, for instance, it rained several days in a row, which I would think would make the pavement/asphalt cooler, and the car had the same intermittent problems it has now. I need to ask my mechanic if he checked the fuel pressure. I am perfectly willing to replace the fuel pump or catalytic converter or whatever... it's true my car has a lot of miles on it in a short time, but they are highway miles...
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Sometimes bogging, sometimes bucking. Mostly on hills. Can be a smooth upward gradient, not just a steep hill. I think the suggestion to check the fuel pressure is a good one. I did have them change the fuel filter, and there was some improvement I think, but it's so hard to say definitively with a problem that is intermittent. I haven't had the plug wires changed in 73k. But I did run the car at night and lift the hood to see if I saw any sparking, and I did not.
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Put techron and premium gas in it. Drove out of state and back. Still have the problem. Still intermittent. A friend was insistent that it *had* to be my catalytic converter, because his (nissan truck) had the same symptoms. However, after I got home I thought about it. My gas mileage has not suffered. Wouldn't a clogged converter kill my gas mileage?
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2001 Forester, 172k miles. I wrote in recently saying that I thought I might need a catalytic converter, because my car was intermittently acting starved for gas. It was suggested that it might be an 02 sensor instead, as it had thrown the p0420 code before in the past... meanwhile the check engine light was going on intermittently, too. It would stay lit for a day or two then go away... I left it at my mechanic's and surprise, it didn't do any of the lurching, hesitation, I-need-gasoline that it had been doing all weekend. The CEL was not on but the computer showed a history of p0328 - knock sensor. I had replaced this sensor a couple of months ago. I had also replaced the fuel filter last winter. He replaced the fuel filter again, and asked me to drive the car over to him while it is doing it's 'thing' to try to get a decent diagnosis. But I can't do that, it seems, because the problem is almost gone - almost. None of this makes sense to me. Should I go ahead and replace the front 02 sensor anyway?
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Well, I will replace the 02 sensors as well. The car has started bucking intermittently. I replaced the knock sensor and fuel filter, and reset the ecu, and ran some fuel injector cleaner in it, all in the past six months. I am going to take it to my mechanic on Monday, but if he says that it needs a cat he doesn't do that kind of work.
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I have this code with my 01 Forester with 167,000 miles on it. Is the front 02 sensor something easy for someone who is not a mechanic (ahem, meaning myself) to replace? Where is it on the car? ALSO IF I need a cat, can anyone post a non-ebay link to a cat that will work on an 01 Forester besides the OEM (expensive)