Although I'm a product of a highly mechanical lifestyle, the cars nowadays are puzzling. I am still very much able to do repairs of certain systems of a vehicle, but the cars are no longer mechanical devices like they once were. Now they are electronic machines.
My method of troubleshooting a problem of runnability is one consisting of two parts Google, one part replacement of car part, and 4 parts hope. It's a pretty lousy formula. Up until now it hasn't helped me a whole lot.
One of the earliest items that I had suspected was the one I just replaced this weekend: The camshaft position sensor. Although it's just one of many sensors that make an engine run these days, everything I read about it on the internet told me that it would be highly unlikely to be the culprit. Truth is, maybe it wasn't the culprit. While I was replacing it, I also cleaned and sealed a few electrical connectors going to other various places under the hood. Maybe it was one of those connectors.
I waited until now to drive it a couple more times to make sure, but the bottom line is, my car finally runs fantastic!
Now if I could just find out what makes it clunk so badly when I hit bumps...
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