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I have a 2001 Impreza coupe with 45K on it. My idle has gotten rough with a noticible misfire, dead spots in the rpm range, and just running bad alltogether. I've replaced the fuel filter, plugs, wires and yesterday I dropped $100 on a new coil. Still runs like crap. I'm at my wits end, throwing money at this problem.....my CEL codes were Misfire cyl 1,2,3,4 and a fuel trim error which I'm assuming is from the O2 sensor picking up the unburned fuel from the misfires. A timing light placed on the plug wires has been giving me mixed results.....I get a very fast spark on one cylinder and others are misfiring. I was SUUURE it was the friggin coil, but it wasn't.....HELP!!!!!! Thanks. --Scott
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I put a timing light on each of the wires, and I found a bad miss on #2, and #4 is pulsing a lot faster than the others. #1 and #3 are fine. Could my coil be bad? How can I test it? Also, someone had suggested that I switch the ignitors to see if the problem goes away. I'm sorta a subaru-noob....what's the ignitor, where is it, what's it look like? : ) Thanks for the help, all. --Scott
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K, guys, here's the latest. I put the vacuum gauge on it, and at 2500 rpm, the vacuum is steady. I'm reluctant to pull the exhaust off, because the car only has 45K on it, and with the vacuum test checking out OK, I don't think that's it. But I could be wrong-- it's happened before : ) But check this out. I put a timing light on each of the wires. The two front cylinders are firing fine. The drivers side rear one (#4, I think) is firing twice as fast as the others, and kinda irregular. The back one on the pass side is not firing steadlily at all, noticible misfire. Could I have a bad coil? Aaaand how can I test the coil to see if it's bad??