Seek! What is PO299?
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TimJuhl
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This is a link to a previous discussion of P0299
http://www.sprinter-source.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5160&highlight=P0299
Let us know what you find out... hope you are back on the road soon.
Tim
http://www.sprinter-source.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5160&highlight=P0299
Let us know what you find out... hope you are back on the road soon.
Tim
cedarsanctum
re: Member
Hang up and drive!
BaywoodBill
pre-Yuppiedom
Bulbasor, we like you. It's OK if you walk around getting coffee while your wife safely drives but quit this posting messages while you drive. Quit it!
We want (at least I want) to keep you well and posting your delightful messages.
We want (at least I want) to keep you well and posting your delightful messages.
BULBASOR
Active member
This is jumbled sorry Yeah seek i have the alum tube but i run the Q4 anyway I was just leaving and got as far as Camp Pendleton when the engin light came on - I felt a little bit of hesetation on hills, but for the most part there was not a big loss of power - it was as if BULBASORS computer was screwing up and then resetting itself after every hill climb. The scan guage said PO299 and if I knoew that was resonator I might have stopped and changed out right there - but I did not know what PO299 was! So the dealer was only 40 miles behind me so I just turned around and headed straight for the dealer
Wow, that was a long meeting in San Fran and the meeting let out yesterday at 5 PM so BULBASOR and I drove it deadhead all the way home - we got in about midnight.
You guys got my posts from the iphone as i was leaving the dealer in San Diego - they took real good care of BULBASOR had him in and out in less than three hours I sat in the massage chair in front of the TV at the lounge while i waited. Claudio took care of BULBASOR - he said it was a leaky resonator.
I was in a hurry to get to San Francisco so i ran the tejon pass at 75 to see if anything would blow (it's a 4400 foot run and there was snow on top). Everything went well so we crused the valley at about 70 to route154 and then shot in towards gilroy - made pretty good time.
BULBASOR and I ran the trip extra hard coming home on purpose to test out the new Q5 resonator - blowing over the Grapevine - Gorman - and the Tejon pass at 80 MPH all the way, (not speedometer 80MPH, but ScanGuage and GPS 80MPH so we were BOOKIN'). BULBASOR ran like a top perfect in every way and we never got a temp over 186.
I do have the J Riordin alum billet turbo resonator eliminator on board Seek, and I carry is as a spare - but I still run the factory resonator because I prefer the whine sound of the resonator to the alum chirp sound. Also - BULBASOR runs cooler with the plastic resonator.
Wow, that was a long meeting in San Fran and the meeting let out yesterday at 5 PM so BULBASOR and I drove it deadhead all the way home - we got in about midnight.
You guys got my posts from the iphone as i was leaving the dealer in San Diego - they took real good care of BULBASOR had him in and out in less than three hours I sat in the massage chair in front of the TV at the lounge while i waited. Claudio took care of BULBASOR - he said it was a leaky resonator.
I was in a hurry to get to San Francisco so i ran the tejon pass at 75 to see if anything would blow (it's a 4400 foot run and there was snow on top). Everything went well so we crused the valley at about 70 to route154 and then shot in towards gilroy - made pretty good time.
BULBASOR and I ran the trip extra hard coming home on purpose to test out the new Q5 resonator - blowing over the Grapevine - Gorman - and the Tejon pass at 80 MPH all the way, (not speedometer 80MPH, but ScanGuage and GPS 80MPH so we were BOOKIN'). BULBASOR ran like a top perfect in every way and we never got a temp over 186.
I do have the J Riordin alum billet turbo resonator eliminator on board Seek, and I carry is as a spare - but I still run the factory resonator because I prefer the whine sound of the resonator to the alum chirp sound. Also - BULBASOR runs cooler with the plastic resonator.
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BULBASOR
Active member
Okay, sorry I have been SOOO busy: now I can get back to this.
BULBASOR was acting a little silly on my last trip to San Francisco. On hill climbs he would just go faster for no reason, and then slower - not a lot but like a difference of 1 or 2 miles per hour. It was really cold outside like 28 degrees because I was climbing a steep mountain getting out of the LA basin. There was snow and ice on the road so I just figured it was black ice. BULBASOR made the rest of the trip and back without any anomalies at all. That was a month ago.
Now, this week on Monday I head out for San Francisco again and right at Camp Pendleton where the hills start outside of town BULBASOR starts doing this silly 'fast-slow' thing again. It's like he's telling me he wants to go faster but he can't. Right about then I say out loud, "Hey BULBASOR, you not feeling well?" and right at that moment a picture of an little yellow engine appears on the bottom of the dashboard display. "Hmm", I think - so I hit the 'scan' button on the SacanGuage2 and get PO299 where it has always said "NO CODES". So now I know BULBASOR is not faking it and I'm concerned.
What's 299 I'm wondering? I'm thinking bad gas, or dirty EGR so I immediately start re-thinking my trip. I think, hmmm, it's 10:30 AM; I'm still in San Diego County and Claudio the Sprinter tech is only 40 miles behind me in San Diego at the Rancho Dodge dealer - and if Claudio fixes BULBASOR by 5PM I can still make San Jose by midnight.
"Okay BULBASOR, we're headed to Claudio's!" I say out loud and I jump off at Las Pulgas (just in time to see this big huge reactor vessel hiding under the freeway). It was so huge we had to stop and stare at it for a minute.
Well, I don't know if what I said or re-starting the engine while looking at that big reactor vessel that seemed to make BULBASOR very happy because he really perked up and we made Chrysler Jeep Rancho Dodge dealer in 35 minutes flat going about 80 all the way! (I guess he was ready to go!)
When I got there and described BULBASOR's behavior to the service writer she looked concerned and she said if anyone could have us back on the road the same day Claudio was the guy but he already had two sick Sprinters ahead of BULBASOR, but she still told Claudio that we were trying to get to San Francisco that night. We did not know what would happen.
Well, there was no one in the lounge because it was 11:30AM now and everyone had already dropped off their cars for the day and it was too early for anyone to be picking up so I had the whole lounge to myself. I sat in the big massage chair and watched TV and got a back massage and that's when I got on my IPhone and sent you guys the message about the PO299 Code.
I was worried about BULBASOR so I was madly trying to research code PO299 on my tiny little IPhone and I could hardly read your responses but it made me feel better to know you guys where there (I could see on my little tiny IPhone screen that Seek sent me a link but it was so tiny on the little phone I did not follow it). That's why I did not get back to all of you; it's hard to post on the forum with a little cell phone. I decided to just give up on the research and wait for Claudio.
About two hours later the service writer walked into the lounge and said "Hey - you guys better get going if your gonna make San Francisco today!"
Boy was I glad! BULBASOR was fixed! She said Eddie was bringing him around to the front right now. She told me it was a leaky turbo resonator and that they replaced it with a new type of resonator that will not break. I said "Q5?" and she said "What's a Q5? We use a new design they just came out with that never breaks."
I had no idea what she was talking about and for all I knew she might not even know about the Q5 so I did not pursue it.
We pulled out and I got right on the I-5 headed north lickity split pushing 70 but not trying to break anything. By the time I got to Camp Pendleton again I thought of you guys and I was feeling bad about leaving you in the lurch and not telling you what happened so I grabbed the IPhone and madly started texting replies into the forum willy nilly to let you know BULBASOR was okay. It was hard to text because the IPhone is a little trickier than a blackberry so sorry for the spelling.
We ran all the way to Buttonwillow before stopping (I needed coffee) and got to San Carlos at 10:30PM
I was so busy at the meeting I could not post.
I decided to really push it going home so I ran the Grapevine, Gorman, and the Tejon pass at 80MPH (not speedometer 80MPH, but Scanguage and GPS 80 MPH), and 80 MPH on the rest of the trip.
We left San Fran at 5PM and deadheaded directly to San Diego county non-stop and made county line by midnight just in time to run right back into that big huge reactor vessel again! Only this time is was right on the freeway!
They made us drive past it single line with a police escort!
So that was the story and the trip is over.
BULBASOR was acting a little silly on my last trip to San Francisco. On hill climbs he would just go faster for no reason, and then slower - not a lot but like a difference of 1 or 2 miles per hour. It was really cold outside like 28 degrees because I was climbing a steep mountain getting out of the LA basin. There was snow and ice on the road so I just figured it was black ice. BULBASOR made the rest of the trip and back without any anomalies at all. That was a month ago.
Now, this week on Monday I head out for San Francisco again and right at Camp Pendleton where the hills start outside of town BULBASOR starts doing this silly 'fast-slow' thing again. It's like he's telling me he wants to go faster but he can't. Right about then I say out loud, "Hey BULBASOR, you not feeling well?" and right at that moment a picture of an little yellow engine appears on the bottom of the dashboard display. "Hmm", I think - so I hit the 'scan' button on the SacanGuage2 and get PO299 where it has always said "NO CODES". So now I know BULBASOR is not faking it and I'm concerned.
What's 299 I'm wondering? I'm thinking bad gas, or dirty EGR so I immediately start re-thinking my trip. I think, hmmm, it's 10:30 AM; I'm still in San Diego County and Claudio the Sprinter tech is only 40 miles behind me in San Diego at the Rancho Dodge dealer - and if Claudio fixes BULBASOR by 5PM I can still make San Jose by midnight.
"Okay BULBASOR, we're headed to Claudio's!" I say out loud and I jump off at Las Pulgas (just in time to see this big huge reactor vessel hiding under the freeway). It was so huge we had to stop and stare at it for a minute.
Well, I don't know if what I said or re-starting the engine while looking at that big reactor vessel that seemed to make BULBASOR very happy because he really perked up and we made Chrysler Jeep Rancho Dodge dealer in 35 minutes flat going about 80 all the way! (I guess he was ready to go!)
When I got there and described BULBASOR's behavior to the service writer she looked concerned and she said if anyone could have us back on the road the same day Claudio was the guy but he already had two sick Sprinters ahead of BULBASOR, but she still told Claudio that we were trying to get to San Francisco that night. We did not know what would happen.
Well, there was no one in the lounge because it was 11:30AM now and everyone had already dropped off their cars for the day and it was too early for anyone to be picking up so I had the whole lounge to myself. I sat in the big massage chair and watched TV and got a back massage and that's when I got on my IPhone and sent you guys the message about the PO299 Code.
I was worried about BULBASOR so I was madly trying to research code PO299 on my tiny little IPhone and I could hardly read your responses but it made me feel better to know you guys where there (I could see on my little tiny IPhone screen that Seek sent me a link but it was so tiny on the little phone I did not follow it). That's why I did not get back to all of you; it's hard to post on the forum with a little cell phone. I decided to just give up on the research and wait for Claudio.
About two hours later the service writer walked into the lounge and said "Hey - you guys better get going if your gonna make San Francisco today!"
Boy was I glad! BULBASOR was fixed! She said Eddie was bringing him around to the front right now. She told me it was a leaky turbo resonator and that they replaced it with a new type of resonator that will not break. I said "Q5?" and she said "What's a Q5? We use a new design they just came out with that never breaks."
I had no idea what she was talking about and for all I knew she might not even know about the Q5 so I did not pursue it.
We pulled out and I got right on the I-5 headed north lickity split pushing 70 but not trying to break anything. By the time I got to Camp Pendleton again I thought of you guys and I was feeling bad about leaving you in the lurch and not telling you what happened so I grabbed the IPhone and madly started texting replies into the forum willy nilly to let you know BULBASOR was okay. It was hard to text because the IPhone is a little trickier than a blackberry so sorry for the spelling.
We ran all the way to Buttonwillow before stopping (I needed coffee) and got to San Carlos at 10:30PM
I was so busy at the meeting I could not post.
I decided to really push it going home so I ran the Grapevine, Gorman, and the Tejon pass at 80MPH (not speedometer 80MPH, but Scanguage and GPS 80 MPH), and 80 MPH on the rest of the trip.
We left San Fran at 5PM and deadheaded directly to San Diego county non-stop and made county line by midnight just in time to run right back into that big huge reactor vessel again! Only this time is was right on the freeway!
They made us drive past it single line with a police escort!
So that was the story and the trip is over.
BULBASOR
Active member
Hi Tim,
You do NOT just walk up to Claudio and ask questions. Even the service writers are scared of the guy - Claudio likes BULBASOR and takes very good care of him but I'm pretty sure Claudio's impression of me is that I am just another dumb American whoe does not know how to drive a car. (For all I know he might be right). After all, Claudio speaks 4 languages and I only speak one.
There is somthing about the brain works of a true MB engineer like Dr Andy or Claudio that put's them on a higher plane than us mere mortals and makes our meaningless questions quite petty and bothersome.
I'm just glad that Claudio is there to take care of BULBASOR and that Dr Andy is there to answer our questions (well, answer Seek or Richards questions) so I just take it as it is.
I'll try to get a picture of the new resonator for you guys when I photograph the Harmonic Balancer this weekend.
You do NOT just walk up to Claudio and ask questions. Even the service writers are scared of the guy - Claudio likes BULBASOR and takes very good care of him but I'm pretty sure Claudio's impression of me is that I am just another dumb American whoe does not know how to drive a car. (For all I know he might be right). After all, Claudio speaks 4 languages and I only speak one.
There is somthing about the brain works of a true MB engineer like Dr Andy or Claudio that put's them on a higher plane than us mere mortals and makes our meaningless questions quite petty and bothersome.
I'm just glad that Claudio is there to take care of BULBASOR and that Dr Andy is there to answer our questions (well, answer Seek or Richards questions) so I just take it as it is.
I'll try to get a picture of the new resonator for you guys when I photograph the Harmonic Balancer this weekend.