![]() ![]() Can't remember if it was the Intake or Exhaust solenoid actuator, but it was the first replacement. My son and I replaced one of these at the end of last year in my Dad's 2008 2.4L Malibu (~70,000 miles at that time). This is compounded by poor maintenance and lower grade oil. In the past they had problems with rings and pistons that caused blow-by, and oil consumption. Keep on you oil consumption, and check at every fuel-up or once a week. ![]() Lastly, as an option but highly recommended is intake service to clean the intake valves and running a cleaner in the gas tank. ![]() Some driveability problems you may see can be resolved by cleaning the throttle body and MAF sensor, both can be easily completed in 30 minutes. Compare this filter to the other brands in the stores and you will see a difference. ![]() They have high quality filter for the Equinox. I prefer Amsoil 5w-30 Signature Series, and changing it once per year or every 10k miles, generally in the fall. Synthetic oil varies quite a bit from refined, highly processed mineral to 100% synthetic basestocks. Preventing problems with VVT and the rest of the engine due sludge, varnish and oil degradation is good quality oil and regular oil changes. Your car seems premature for issue with the solenoids. Thanks for reading, if you made it this far! Also, thanks in advance for any advice/comment. Should I change the oil more often? That doesn't seem very user friendly or reliable.ĭoes anyone think there could be another underlying issue that is causing the VVT solenoids to fail sooner, or cause me to stall/idle roughly? We get gas at the same station we always get it at, so I don't think it is really fuel related. I did notice that our oil seems pretty dark, and I did read that 'Nox's have a bad reputation for eating through/burning oil faster than they should. We use synthetic oil, and change it very close to recommended intervals every time. Also, it seems GM is well aware that this was an issue in past engines, yet they continue to build them this way and not put out service bulletins/recalls regarding this issue.Īm I going to have to replace these things every 40k miles? Is there anything I can do to stop these things from failing/fouling in that short of a time frame? So here are my questions, and further thoughts.įirst off, this engine has less than 40k miles on it. I made it back to work miles or so) without a hiccup. It fired up with no problems, the CE light was off, and it idled just fine when stopped. I then went inside to clean up a bit, and went back out to head back in to work. The "Check Engine" light was still on, and I figured it'd have to cycle a bit before it went off. When it was done, I topped off the oil in the engine and started it up and let it run a minute. The exhaust side screen was a little dirtier, but it didn't look to be an obvious problem. The screens and everything about the intake side looked to be pretty clean. Indeed it did, and $107.80 lighter and about 45 minutes later, I had both solenoids replaced. I felt comfortable enough with doing it myself, so long as everything looked the same once I started getting into it. Thankfully, I found a video of someone replacing these in an older model on YouTube. The code it was throwing was a P0011, I did some quick research, and on other sites found a common problem of previous years' Equinox's doing similar things due to what was described as "Camshaft position actuator solenoids." In reality, I quickly identified what these people were talking about as VVT solenoids, or Variable Valve Timing solenoids. I had to keep my foot on the gas, increasing idle, when I stopped. The "Check Engine" light finally came on, but I ended up getting it to daycare to drop the kids off, to my wife's work to drop her off, to a car parts store to pull the code, and then I was able to make it home. Each time we released our foot from the brake and moved to accelerate, idle dropped and the engine stalled out. It died on us four times in a row as we were stopped at a stoplight. I cranked it back up, backed into my spot, and carried on with my day assuming that I didn't have the vehicle fully in gear or something along those lines.įast forward to this morning. I had just pulled into the parking lot, put it in reverse, and hit the gas. In fact, it stalled out on me as I was returning from a quick lunch-break run last week. Recently, we noticed that there seemed to be an issue in idle when the vehicle was stopped. The vehicle currently has just under 38,000 miles. At that time, and still for the most part, we were happy with our buy. We purchased our 2016 Equinox a little over a year ago. ![]()
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