or pull the 20amp fuel pump fuse instead

ORIGINAL: mechengineer201

Adaptive strategy is the technical term - neural network programming algorithms for you computer geeks . Computers that learn - scary **** if you ask me. And dude - why did you take your car to the dealer? you def got ripped and there are plenty of good independent mechanics that know the neon backwards and forwards. If you want to get around the computers learning curve you can just erase its memory - kind of like you or I smoking a few tubes - jk - just disconnect the battery for a minute or so, you can do this in your driveway I hope, to bleed the capicitors in the puter, its just a jumbled mess of RC circuitry so give it a some time and you should be back to a nice to some nice fresh ram ready to learn again... As for your A/C issues, i highly doubt this would solve them and the knocks you are hearing are most likely not at the frequency of a "harmful" knock or the computer would retard the timing to prevent this - only a very narrow band of frequencies are considered harmful to an engine and most likely yours puter uses a band-pass filter to amplify them but thats more than anyone needs to know. If you are really worried about it have your girl use some higher octane gasoline, after you have reset the ecu of course. I have no doubt that if the car has been dogged around all its life that you have some nasty lookin combustion chambers and piston faces but if the tech that replaced the head gasket had half a brain or any pride in his work he woulda cleaned that **** off while he had it apart. And if I were replacing a head gasket you can bet your *** I woulda had the head milled - this raises the compression ratio - find out if they did that and if so I would def recommend running the next highest octane rating....good luck.

ORIGINAL: white96neon

how much did it cost to fix the oil spark plug problem