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    Newbie here. Trying to fix the granddaughters Sonic.

    My wife and I drove an hour up to St. Louis yesterday to check my work on Kai's car. Although she said her engine light had gone out, the scanner was still saying there was an air leak and she was running lean. My son bought her and her brothers scanners and an app that tells them what the codes...
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    Changed the valve cover and plugs, now the engine light is on

    In case anyone has read this post, I was told by my granddaughter that after someone scanned her car, that it's leaking air into the engine somewhere. I'm heading up to St. Louis (where she lives) on Saturday and I'm going to pull the valve cover back off and check the mounting surface on the...
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    Newbie here. Trying to fix the granddaughters Sonic.

    Thanks, Akurei. I am the grandfather. My granddaughter took the car home an hour away after I finished the job. My son has a code scanner and my grandson is supposed to help her with it. I told her to google the code list, or have her brother do it. I also told her I'd come up if she needs me...
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    Newbie here. Trying to fix the granddaughters Sonic.

    Just posted my first question, so I thought I'd better let somebody know I was here. I'm a retired Ironworker living in southeast Missouri. Seems I spend more time working on my kids and grandkids cars than my own. Today was my 20 year old granddaughter that needed 'help', so I changed her valve...
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    Changed the valve cover and plugs, now the engine light is on

    I replaced the valve cover and spark plugs on my granddaughters 1.8 Sonic today, then flushed the radiator and added new coolant. The pcv was shot on the old valve cover, and since I didn't know when the plugs were changed last, I put new AC Delco's in. She told me it had a newer coil pack in...
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