Hello fellow Treg owners
I bought my wife an 04 v8 about a year ago.
The car was in mint shape and had very low mileage, a quick test drive and I was hooked, I wanted the car (for my wife of course).
It was shortly after we drove it home that we started having numerous problems with it. The car's been a real money pit even though I fix everything myself.
I found myself coming back to this site numerous times googling various problems that I had so I thought I might as well join the forum.
It was after purchasing a new scanner that I really seen the problems with it.
after fixing most of the problems with it, the car's been really good to me
until last Friday, where it was -43.5 deg. C here in Sudbury Ontario (good thing I installed a block heater 3 weeks ago). I started the car for my wife and I could hear the air compressor just rattling away under the passenger floor. When my wife drove it to work the dreaded "FAULT RUNNING GEAR WORKSHOP" showed up on the display, at the same time some spring must have broken in the driver's door latch because we have to manually move the latch when the door's open to line it up with the striker.
our friendly dealership wants $380 for a new latch so I ordered an aftermarket one online for about $65. As for the air suspension, the car sits low on the passenger side I did a quick level test with my scanner and when the right side is prompted to lift, it doesn't move. I'm guessing it's the control valve on the compressor that's frozen or clogged because all the level sensors are working fine and I can't hear any air leaks. I've ordered a compressor rebuild kit on Ebay for $40 when it comes in I'll have a look at that and rebuild the compressor at the same time.
I'm going to post my results when I'm done
thanks
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I bought my wife an 04 v8 about a year ago.
The car was in mint shape and had very low mileage, a quick test drive and I was hooked, I wanted the car (for my wife of course).
It was shortly after we drove it home that we started having numerous problems with it. The car's been a real money pit even though I fix everything myself.
I found myself coming back to this site numerous times googling various problems that I had so I thought I might as well join the forum.
It was after purchasing a new scanner that I really seen the problems with it.
after fixing most of the problems with it, the car's been really good to me
until last Friday, where it was -43.5 deg. C here in Sudbury Ontario (good thing I installed a block heater 3 weeks ago). I started the car for my wife and I could hear the air compressor just rattling away under the passenger floor. When my wife drove it to work the dreaded "FAULT RUNNING GEAR WORKSHOP" showed up on the display, at the same time some spring must have broken in the driver's door latch because we have to manually move the latch when the door's open to line it up with the striker.
our friendly dealership wants $380 for a new latch so I ordered an aftermarket one online for about $65. As for the air suspension, the car sits low on the passenger side I did a quick level test with my scanner and when the right side is prompted to lift, it doesn't move. I'm guessing it's the control valve on the compressor that's frozen or clogged because all the level sensors are working fine and I can't hear any air leaks. I've ordered a compressor rebuild kit on Ebay for $40 when it comes in I'll have a look at that and rebuild the compressor at the same time.
I'm going to post my results when I'm done
thanks
