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On the door, you may be able to move the catch in a bit. I'd loosen the bolts and push the catch in bit and tighten it back down while still pushing in. By "catch" I mean the part attached to the car that the latch grabs on too. Hope this makes sense might not work but free and easy to try

Lawyer here :). Active license but I switched to compliance after I realized I hated most of what I saw as a practicing attorney (it just wasn't for me). Not sure what OPs claims would be specifically or what they would be based on but I love my 2014. No complaints here. Sorry to hear about your troubles Chuck, I hope you find a positive result in whatever recourse you pursue. I'd be curious to hear more about what caused the issue and the routine maintenance. If you do pursue this legally, I anticipate those questions will come up.

Sorry to hear. That would royally piss me off as well.

Has anyone tried ceramic coating on any of their cars, either DIY or professional applications? I just put some on my black s2000 and I love it so far. It adds tons of shine and makes the water just roll off the paint. I used cquarts uk 3.0 it cost about $60

Thanks for checking, I appreciate it! I have found a few local places that may work. One quoted me at $579. I might end up trailering my car there but they are booked until July 12th.

Would your mechanic do a remote tune? I have learned a lot on what I need to do but I haven't seen any significant results so I'm becoming more and more open to the idea of just paying for a good base tune. I'd certainly be interested if your mechanic is open to remote tuning.

If this works and I ever get my car running, this could be a very good upgrade for me. My intercooler and turbo piping are 2.5 but it bottlenecks into a smaller pipe with the MAF sensor and throttle body. Friendly reminder, careful unplugging the throttlebody. Otherwise, you could end up like me with a broken clip. The connection is obviously important and if your plug is loose at all it triggers limp in mode. Zipties to the rescue for now

After dragging my feet and many distractions I'm ready to start seriously trying to get the tune dialed in. From what I have read, I will want to disable the mass air flow sensor and long term fuel trims to adjust the volumetric efficiency table. This is called open loop. Once that is successful, I will turn back on the MAF sensor and the tune should be very close to complete. Hopefully, I have this thing on the roads sometime next week. Update: the idle has improved quite a bit. My wideband is reading in gas scale so 14.7 is ideal.

Thanks! I did have to modify the fuel pump basket but not the actual fuel pump. The fuel pump was quite a bit bigger so I had to cut the basket a bit to allow the pump to fit. I also soldered the plug for the pump. Other than that it was pretty much plug and play. Hope that makes sense. I took quite the break on this project but I have the wastegate mounted and I plan to resume tinkering today after work.

Good stuff subbed.

I would think smaller first personally. I'm not sure what your mechanical experience is but I would start tinkering with the existing engine and once you reach the limits consider the swap. I'm working on putting a turbo from the Cruze on my 14 spark. I just have to work on the tune now. I'd do something like that maybe a supercharger. I definitely think you could do the swap. You'd probably need the ecu and wiring harness from the Sonic but both ecu are tunable via HP tuners. Also, you would obviously want a daily driver while you do the work just something else to keep in mind.

This does not sound right to me. This isn't how my 2014 spark works. I didn't see the year of your vehicle so I apologize if yours is much newer. If that ends up being the only symptom I might let it be but it's probably something electrical. Best of luck!

First car: 2003 Hyundai Tiburon Best car: 2004 Honda S2000 Worst car: 2004 Kia Sorento

Mine looks the same, thought I was missing something as well. I think it's ok

I'm still working on setting up all of the channels that I need to log to properly tune the spark but it appears my flex fuel sensor is working properly and is being tracked in the vcm scanner. I also got the blow off valve to chirp a bit in the clip below. My AFR gauge is reading lean because the o2 sensor was open at this time.

I changed up my oil feed line to the turbo. I had a metal braided line before but I needed a restrictor. I ended up using this black and blue line and I picked up an adjustable valve so I can adjust the oil fee as needed. It fixed the oil problem now I need to tune the car. I found a few videos explaining how to use the wide band, vcm scanner, and hp tuners to adjust where needed and taking out the guess work. I'm going to learn how to do it and post a video once I have everything set up and ready to tune.

I quickly rinsed off the spark today. It is still pretty dirty and in need of touch up work on the paint but I like how the look is coming together

There are 2 o2 sensors on my 2014 spark. The first is accessible under the hood in front of the engine and under the heatsheild covering the exhaust. It comes out of the exhaust just before the first big catalytic converter. The second o2 sensor is under the car in the middle of the exhaust, near the oil pan area. This is the post catalytic converter and likely the one you are interested in as it should be sensor 2 (further downstream) If you rule out a wiring issue and determine the sensor is still good, it may be a bad catalytic converter. You can replace the converter or put an

I'm working on mounting the wastegate but I couldn't help wiring the wastegate valve shut on the exhaust and seeing if it could make boost. I started it up with my brand new battery and she is making boost! I need to work on the tune badly but I wanted to capture some of the noise.

Since my last post I ordered a new wiring plug for the injector. I have wired up the new plug and it fixed the misfire issue and injector 4 seems to work fine. I filled my tank with e85 and the vehicle starts and runs on the fuel just fine with the new pump and injectors. The idle is not terrible for how little tuning I did to it and my lack of experience in tuning. Today, I'm working on hooking up the wastegate to start building boost. I'm picking up a new battery and some hose clamps for the radiator hose I put the 90 bend in. I'm also going to move some exhaust hang

From the responses I have gotten on the HP tuners forum, the e78 is covered. It is not specifically listed by vehicle make model and year on the HP Tuners vehicle list but neither was mine until I reached out to their customer support. If you are interested, I would reach out to them and ask if your vehicle is covered. Let me know if you have additional questions

I have been tinkering with tuning the idle and investigating various check engine lights. I cleaned the spark plugs as well. I haven't made significant progress but I do believe I have established direction. Here is a video update.

With all of the codes in hp tuners popping up and the sound from the engine, Im fairly certain the 4th cylinder is not firing and it is due to an issue with the injector and I'm assuming it is related to the electrical connection. I'm going to pull the sparkplug and see if it is dry to confirm my suspicion and look to tinker with the connection. Unfortunately, pulling the injectors is a massive task on these cars.

I flashed a new tune to address the significantly larger injectors. It seems to have helped the idle quite a bit. I still haven't fully hooked up the exhaust since working on the fuel pump so it is louder than it will be when completed.

It finally fired up! I confirmed the fuel pump was working and hooked it back up and gave it a try. The current tune is not adjusting for the injector size so it is running extremely rich. It also is clear I will need an oil restrictor on the turbo feed. It's not much but here is a video of me geeking out in excitement as it fires up for the first time since putting on the turbo.