I was wondering, has anyone had problems after having the 02-042 sparkplug recall performed.
I had the work completed about a month ago, or so. After the work was complete the car has been stalling out and performing as if it had a lot of carbon build up in the system or not getting air. This occurs intermittently. I have taken it back in and the service manger stated that it was in all probability carbon build-up. I find this hard to believe~~Trust me, I give it the right foot tune-up a lot of the time. Any ideas

 

Sounds like it might be your map sensor. Try a search on that and see what you can find.

 

could you be more specific about ur problem?stalling and carbon build up?
I just had my sparkplug recall performed last week.

 

Gee, cbrown... It's surely possible there's a problem with one of the new plugs. They should just swap them out and put in replacements. On the other hand, it could be coincidence (usually it isn't) that something else has gone wrong.

Carbon build-up?? Not if you drive like most other folks around here. Maybe this dealer is your problem.

Do you have the tools (particularly an allen wrench and a torque wrench) to get the coil cover off and pull the plugs to look?

 

More details on the problem which is occurring, At least once during on daily drive into Raleigh from home (about 20 minutes) the car wants to hesitate when you begin to accelerate. This occurs through out the fully rev band. I generally can rev through it, by pushing it to 9k to or three times (which at first made me think it was carbon). To me, I should not have to do this at all. On a few occasions, after just returning home and then leaving, when starting the car it want to idle rough and choke off.
I run 92 octane from the very best station in town. I have tried an octane booster from the dealership and from a local Hot-Rod-Shop.
As for driving it, I drive it the way it was meant to be driven. Also, I have done no modifications (yet) to the car.

 

A couple of us in Calgary did our own spark plug change over using the recall plugs. We and those cars I've checked (after the dealer performed work) have had no problems.
Even though a spark plug swap is one of the most common and simple things to do, so many things can go wrong when doing it with this car. Have a look into some or all of the following:
- One or more of the plugs may have been dropped on the floor by the service guy and then put in.
- One or more of the plugs may have the wrong gap. Not all plugs have the right gap out of the box and service guys don't always double check before putting them it.
- They may not have torqued the new plugs down the way they should be. Of the two cars I checked after the dealer got done with them, each car showed 2 to 3 of plugs were at the WRONG torque.
- To change these plugs, the wiring harness from the top of each coil pack must be disconnected. It has been reported that one or more of these harnesses are NOT securely fastened when the coil packs are put back on. There is a "click" or "detent" that must be pushed past or the harness does not make the proper and required connection.
- It is possible that one or more of the coil packs are not pushed down onto the top of the spark plug far enough.
- NO OTHER HARNESSES need to be touched to do a spark plug change, however, an inexperienced tech may tamper with unrelated sensor harnesses. This is not as uncommon as you may think.

I'd check the coil pack wiring harnesses and spark plug looseness first.

 

FYI: Just got my car back. The problem I was having was just as STL stated. The map sensor. Car is running like a Rocket once more!!!

 

Guess it was coincidence after all. Weird that the MAP sensor got hosed after the plugs got installed...

Anyway, that's great news. Rock on!