Correct Defiant, turns out it was my timing belt that went. The damage isn't even worth repairing, possibly it wouldn't have been as bad if I wasn't driving on the highway at the time. This is probably the last post I will be making on DSMTuners, it was a good 2 years of DSMing and this site...

A couple nights ago I was coming off of a ramp onto the highway, and as soon as I got into the merge lane and started accelerating, it felt like my car lost all power. I was flooring the pedal but the car was losing speed, trying to give the car gas did nothing. I hit the clutch and pulled over...

Ahh, to think that just yesterday this ABS problem was my biggest issue with my car. Today I happened to crash hard into a curb, and I don't even know what I messed up. My alignment was always a little off, but after hitting the curb its WAYYYYYYYY off. When I take an onramp onto the expressway...

This is a very strange problem I've never heard of anyone having before. I've never driven my Talon in the snow until today, we had an unexpected snow storm. Coming home from work I was messing around in a parking lot, and I tried pulling the E-brake to start a drift, but as soon as my wheels...

Thanks for the quick replies. I took a look under my hood a few minutes ago and tried to find the ISC, by looking at a diagram I foudn on the net, for a 2g Eclipse. Are the 90's ISC's in the same place? I feel dumb but I was looking in the exact spot and didn't see it. I want to test it before I...

I'm going to try changing my ISC, but while looking at them on Ebay I started thinking that there might be different types. For example, one seller lists that the ISC will only work with 91' and up Talons. Are 90's different? Also, some sellers say that the ISC they're selling is the new revised...

I belived that too, until I bought my Talon. I had a caliper bolt that I literally spent months trying to take off. Maybe once a week I'd pop the tire off and give it another shot, soak it in PB Blaster, try again next week. I even tried torching it. I ended up having to cut it with a saw.

I'm in Ontario and I've never had to take an emissions test. I think it's only southern ontario, because up here in Northwestern Ontario I've never heard of anyone ever having to pass one.

well, the problem seemed to fix itself, after sitting overnight the noise was gone. but thanks for pointing out that site, i bookmarked it for later

I was driving on the freeway this afternoon, and when I turned off and slowed down I heard a very high-pitched ANNOYING buzzing sound coming out of nowhere. I thought it was coming from the speakers but it wasn't. I got home, turned the car off, disconnected and reconnected the battery, and it...

I was wondering if anyone here has installed a satellite radio in their DSM. I bought a Sirius Starmate and I'll be putting it in my car soon. I don't want to have wires all over my dash from the antenna, power cord, and audio cables, so I found how to hide all the wires except for the power...

No I don't, they're the stock gauges

Ever since I bought my Talon a year ago the fuel gauge has never properly worked. The needle on it used to work like it should, but once I hit my last 1/4 of the tank the needle would just freeze in one spot, and stay there until I put more gas in. The only way to tell if I was going to run out...

The battery is fairly new, I bought it in March. And now the alternator is new as well. I'll try replacing the alternator relay, but if that doesnt do it it would probably be a wiring problem???

Well, a bit of tiem has passed and I have been going insane trying to fix this problem, my battery not charging. I replaced the alternator today, thinking it would do the trick but the car does the exact same thing as it did wiht the old alternator in. When I charge the battery with an external...

2 days ago I noticed not one, but three of the dummy lights on the dash were on at the same time. The coolant light, battery light and e-brake light.I have no idea why they all came on at the same time, but they go off and on simultaneously, depending on how high I'm reving. For example, if...

Until recently I didn't even know my Talon had a security system. I was trying to open my hatch with the wrong key (a Hyundai key actualy lol), so I was really jiggling the key around and pulling on the hatch, and out of nowhere my horn started going off and the lights were flashing. Sometimes...

strangely, the problem seems to have fixed itself, for now anyways. I drove around all day today with no boost, then came home and turned the car off. an hour later when i got back in the car, i started it up and took off, and I was making full boost again. i have no idea waht happened.i...

I'm pretty scared right now that I blew my turbo, but I'm not sure how to know if it's actually dead, or if I messed up something else. My Talon is completely stock, besides having no cat anymore. I took off onto the expressway and boosted hard up to around 100mph. I turned off the expressway...

I read a VFAQ article which said that for 1G dsms, "Setting the BISS involves grounding 2 connectors, one next to the interior fusebox, one next to the battery, then turning the BISS until the car idles at 750rpm". However, when I checked my Haynes manual it said that theres extra steps you have...

The highest octane fuel I can find here is 91 octane. I thought that was good enough?

since I put subs in the only thing i've been blasting is techno/trance whatever you want to call it. i just pulled in listening to Global Deejays - The Sound of San Francisco

I drank a bunch of Old Milwaukee tall cans last night, and right now I'm feeling worse than I ever have after a night of beer. I usually stick to MGD or Canadian, but I was poor and went for the old millys, what a mistake.

I have the same problem, mine is constant. Whenever I rev it while in neutral, or just regular driving, I leave a huge cloud of smoke. When I take off at a stop sign it reminds me of movies when the car leaves a smoke screen to escape. Its honestly almost that bad lol. My coolant needs filling...

his was fwd but mine is awd... is that a problem?

I need a new downpipe, and soem guy with a scrapped 91 Talon TSi offered to sell me his for 20 bucks. I have a 90 TSi AWD, and I was wondering if the pipe would be the same size and could just bolt on where my old one was. I only got a quick look at it and it was hard to see but it looked like...

lol I didn't know what that light was for the longest time, i thought it looked like a colessium

To pass the safety inspection my mechanic told me that I'll need to replace the downpipe, and that he could order me one in but it would be $200 without labour, and it would be a stock pipe. I'm really on a budget now after all these Talon repairs and I was wondering what the cheapest way to do...

I bought my DSM about a year ago, but it ended up needing much more work than I though to pass the safety inspection. Anyways, my car is finally safetied and I would like to get plates for the car. I was wondering which documents and paperwork I'll need to bring with me in order to get plates...

I'm in Ontario too, in Thunder Bay. I went to the licensing place to get a 10 day permit, and they told me that you can only get one within the first two weeks of owning your car, after that you can't get one. Also, you don't have to do an emissions test here for some reason. (At least you...

ive been down for about a year now. my talon needed way too much work to pass the safety check, i wish i didn't even buy the car. but its close now, just have a stubborn bolt on one of the calipers that i cant get off no matter what i do. as soon as i put the new caliper on, im set.

ignore that, i found my answer here:http://members.shaw.ca/dsm.1000q/Engineprimer/1G/idleswitch.htm

A guide I was reading on VFAQs mentioned unplugging the connector on the idle switch. I'm not sure where this switch is, or what it looks like. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks

My Talon has 260,000 KM on it. (Approx. 160,000 miles) and it still runs well, surprisingly. The only problem I have is my transmission always grinds going into 1st.

I'll be buying a new battery for my Talon tomorrow, and I was wondering if there are any specific batteries which other DSMers prefer, or is it pretty much just the more CCA the better? I've never bought a battery before and don't really know what to look for in one, all I know is I will not be...

I have a box with a 12" sub in it, which I moved from another car to my Talon. The only thin that annoys me is the spare tire "bump" in the back of the car. My box won't sit even on this thing and it moves around alot while I'm driving. Has anyone attempted to remove this, flatten it, make a...

I found a website which will allow me to buy the old R-12 Freon for my Talon, because otherwise I would have to get it retrofitted to use the new kind. The Freon comes in 12oz cans. I have no idea how much I would need, and I don't have an owner's manual, does anyone have any idea how many cans...

I was just outside working on my Talon, and my battery was too low to get the engine to start. Somewhere in the process of swapping 4 different old batteries in and out, I accidentally connected the negative to positve, and vise versa. I realized what I did and quickly connected them properly...

When I shift gears, I have to push the clutch pedal as far down as it can go. It's really annoying, and I don't know what to do to repair it. I really don't wan't to replace the clutch... does anyone have any ideas to what this can be? Or some way I can raise the pedal or something like that...

When I'm driving my Talon, all the lighting on the dash and gauge cluster just seem to go on and off by themselves. Sometimes the lighting on my speedometer will work, but the lighting for the fuel guage and/or tach will just go out, then come back on after a while. The lighting in the center...

Yah, you don't see many cars here in Ontario without block heaters. I'd say proabbly even more than 75%. However, my Talon is an exception, it didn't come with one. You might be SOL like me.

No I havn't tried that, you're saying I should try putting it in first and then rock it? Or leave it in neutral and try?

I went out of town from September-January, and left my Talon sitting outside in my driveway that entire time. Today I got in my car to try to start it, but the battery was dead. So I was sitting in the car and I started trying to move the shifter (manual) around, and it was like it was just...

Hi, my valve cover looks like crap, and I wanted to give it a new paint job to make it look a little nicer. I'm just not sure what type of paint I should use, if there's a special type for high-temperatures, specifically for under the hood, etc? I'm sure lots people have done this before, I'm...

I had the same problem with my Talon, but mine's a 1g. Even if I didn't turn the a/c on, it would eventually just start stalling on me when I came to stop, usually after about 5 mins of driving first. However, it did happen quicker when I turned the a/c on or my stereo up. I tried many ways...

I don't know if your car is a 1g or 2g... but on my 1g all I had to do was pop the plastic panels off behind the tail light, inside the car. Theres a few bolts holding it in. I'm guessing 2g would be similar.

Alrite, I just got back from the shop not too long ago. I parked my car outside and explained to him the mistake he made, and he didn't believe me that the hoses were just for excess water. I told him to pour water down that little hole, and he did and watched the water drip under the car. He...

It's true, he is sort of a redneck mechanic. It's the first time I've been to that garage, and the only reason I went there is because its down the street from my house. My car has expired Minnesota plates and isn't insured, so I just decided to go there rather than drive across town. I am...

I'll save the report until after they pass my car in the inspection ;)