Recent content by Chooch

Jim and 2001... You are correct. It definitely is a faulty actuator, not a loose connection or anything else. To the best of my understanding , its mainly a simple solenoid that has failed or worn out.

Answer to LennDawk Lenn: Live in LaFayette, work downtown. You?

I'm hoping someone out there can provide some rational help for me about one of the most RubeGoldberg pieces of design/engineering I have ever seen. (And I say this after owning 7 Italian cars.) My 2000 LS driver's side door lock actuator went tango uniform on me. My key fob locks and unlocks...

Best Bug cleaner I've found I know our little northern bugs are kinda wimpy compared to your flying monsters, but I've found a product called Castol Super Clean and a scrub brush is absolutely terrific on my LS's plastic bumpers. Super Clean is not just for bugs, but also removes road tar...

oh and i forgot... I forgot to add that when the alternator finally went terminal, the gages went haywire. I was going 150 without the engine running. :-)

Happened to me too - it's alternator failure I had the same experience. It played out over 4 weeks. Started with intermittent warning "Check charging system". Then the radio would go off for a few minutes and come back on. Then the radio and the dash lights. And come back on. Then finally...

A number in the automotive press have repeatedly written that the DEW-98 based LS will go the way of the mastodons and be replaced in 2006 or so by something - what? - based on the Mazda 6 platform. I am absolutely dying of curiosity about several questions that I hope someone knowledgeable can...