94 V6 Camry vibrates

When was the timing belt last changed? Last tune up? Are you losing coolant? (Not sure about the power light)

xfactorx wrote:

Whens the last time you did any maintenance for it, like a tune up, I bet never.

Please what do u mean by "Tune up"? I take the car to the mechanic for general servicing i.e. ( oil drain, change of oil filter etc.) and thats about it. Is that tune up?

What do I need to do a tune up?

Thanks.

A Tune up easily gives me 3 mpg better, Plugs, wires, cap, rotor, set timing, [ the belt stretches, reducing timing, reducing milage-power] Check o2 sensor, clean throttle body. Gees motors have parts that wear. Put it on a scope it could even be something serious or just a bad wire. It amazes me people dont consider tune ups as maintenance.

Thanks Ransley,

Here ( Lagos, Nigeria), Its almost impossible to find a mechanic that can read technical manuals or one that has a scope. Most mechs here just learn the trade at the expense of going to school because of lack of money to go to school. So most of them can't read.

The sh> A Tune up easily gives me 3 mpg better, Plugs, wires, cap, rotor, set

In that case, check out

A tune up basically is changing out the spark plugs. (I think it's recommended every 30,000 or 60,000 miles, I forget which. :)

Also recommended to change are the distributor cap, spark plug wires (which go from the spark plugs to the distributor cap), distributor rotor (I'm pretty sure this is the part that spins, distributing the high voltage to each spark plug as needed - I've never changed this myself, yet)

Good luck...

Michael

You might want to go here....

You might just benefit from plugs, Check the timing, once mine was retarded 3 degrees and I was loosing 3-4 mpg.