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1992 Lumina Fuel System Won't Start

when i went to start my car last week it just wouldnt start... tried is several times... It would crank over just fine but wouldnt start. Then i tried it the next day and it started fine. I then drove it home and it ran just fine. Then the next morning it wouldnt start again. I left it set a couple days and it started just fine again but i havent driven it anywhere. Any ideas?

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1995 Lumina Electrical & Lighting Systems Malfunction

chevy says radiator fans are ok. no codes. Fans never run. One runs if air conditioner is on. Temp gauge goes up when not moving. Goes down when moving.

1994 Lumina Electrical & Lighting Systems Failing

Troubleshoot turn signal lights when the Hazard lights work but the blinkers do not?

1995 Lumina Engine Overheating

Overheats driving or idleing.Also when overheats it
has no heat. If let run will cool down and at the same time it starts to put out heat. When it overheats the engine, radiator and hoses seem to be
cool. The thermostat and cap have been replaced. I see no sign of coolant in the crancase or tail pipe.

1996 Lumina Engine Other

I took my Lumina LS to Precision Tune for general maintenace (spark plugs, oil change, PCV, radiator flush, transmission fluid change). They told me that my engine fluid was leaking into my coolant and it would cost over $600 to repair.(a faulty gasket in either the manifold or headgasket. We went on a 3500 mile road trip and the car began to overhead in the desert. We added a bottle of stop leak to the radiator and it never overheated again. Upon return, we took the car to the Texaco Xpress Lube for a new coolant change and the young man seemed quite knowlegable about the problem we experienced. He kindly would not change the coolant
because it should only have the pink fluid and should only be changed every 120, 000 miles. He said a better gasket is made than the original and that there is a current class action suit against GM. He said that this was common in 1996 Luminas with my engine (I think 3.1). Also, not having known about the 'pink' coolant, I'm not sure that that is what was put in.

How can I verify that this is the problem? Have you heard this to be common? Do you have any suggestions or comments for what I feel the Precision Tune guy thinks is the "dumb blonde"?

Thanks....
Hoping to be a 'smarter' blonde

1996 Lumina Engine Sticking

Egine idling fast 95% of the time.

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1997 Lumina General Making Noise

This has been going on for about a week, only driven the car twice since it started. A terrible grinding noise is coming from the engine, seems to be from the drive belt...one of the front pulleys perhaps. A friend looked at it and said he saw metal flaking off of a front pulley. The day after this started my car wouldn't start, replaced battery and battery cables in a mall parking lot, now it starts but noise remains. I am forced to drive this car at least 2 or 3 times this week for several miles...if anyone has heard of this specific problem in the v6 3100 motor please let me know chances of chucking the belt or anything worse. Thanks

1998 Lumina Electrical & Lighting Systems Malfunction

When starting the 98 Lumina early in the morning, the dash lights may or may not come on with the headlights. Usually they will come on slowly then dim and come back up, with no particular regularity. It does not seem to have a cross problem with other lights in the car. The curious thing is that two months ago the car died - we had a new battery put in and it lasted about a month and it died. The dashlight problems seemed to mirror the time the battery was losing power. In other words, the dashlights seemed to be working when the battery was new but gradually the above problem returned and then the battery died. We then had the car taken to a dealership that I have faith in and they reported the alternator not doing its job and replaced both the alternator and battery and did a few other things to the tune of $400.00. Guess what, everything was going along swimmingly for a couple of weeks, and then the dashlights again started to act up. Again, the car died out on the highway and again both the battery and alternator were changed - only $240.00 this time.

It has now been about two weeks and the dashlights are again coming on slowly and dimming and coming back up rather irratically. I know that it seems strange that the action of the dashlights are somehow related to this other major problem, but I think they are related. Something is draining the juice out of the battery and I believe it is connected to the dashlight problem.

Any takers on this one? Gary

1998 Lumina Electrical & Lighting Systems Other

My turn signals do not work. The fuse is good. (The same day I was wiping down the steering column and my hazard light button broke off). I put it back in and my hazard lights still work. Please help!
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