Originally Posted by hauptjr

updates:

Car had increasing difficulty starting and more frequent stalls. Several times I walked away because the car would not start in parking lots. Never stalled and then failed to start - but I started to worry about that possibility and so limited my driving.

Wish I had spent a few bucks to get the sensor faster (I had taken the free ground shipping from autohaus AZ). But the problems were getting worse faster than I expected, and the stalling (and near stalls) were becomeing increasingly frequent.

Not the 25 minute install that I thought it would be. But that has more to do with my inexperience. Mechanic friend helped me out. We ended up doing all the work from above the car.

Tracing the cable was a bit fun, but ultimately it went under the oil filter. Moved the rad overflow, and removed the oil filter and then we could reach the sensor (with difficulty - long arms and experience working blind were important factors to success). (due to removing oil filter, we did raise up the car, remove the belly pan, and place an pan to catch dripping oil).

Ended up cutting the old sensor cable to remove it.

Now the car is working better, running smoothly and so far no stalls or problem starts. I should vag it and make sure there are no codes hiding (codes that didnt set off the CEL).

I put about 70 miles on it - not quite enough to be confident that all problems are resolved - but its looking good.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Dallas09

replace engine speed sensor first, then clear the codes and see if the misfires continue, if they do it looks like coil pack since the code moved to a different cylinder, right?