20 Most Recent 2000 Kia Sephia Questions & Answers

There are three common reasons for oil on the plugs. A blown head gasket, worn valve stem oil seals and worn piston rings. The most likely reason will probably be the head gasket. Check the coolant overflow tank for oil floating on top of the coolant. This is a sign of a blown head gasket. For Valve stem oil seals check the following... On a Cold start you get a large thick cloud of blue coloured exhaust smoke. You also get the same smoke when going from idle to higher engine revs. Such as pulling away from a red traffic light after sitting waiting for traffic. Does the vehicle use a lot of oil? Does it have excessively smoky exhaust gas, usually more of a grey/white colour, when driving? Has it lost power? Look in the engine air filter box. Is there oil? Worn piston rings sometimes cause 'blow back' where an oil/air vapour is forced back through the air intake into the air filter box.

quote: "Since you have isolated which system is guilty you can further isolate the components. Try disconnecting the wires to the tail light assemblies (one at a time) with the fuse in place and see if the draw disappears. Do this with the brake light switch, headlight switch, and even the relays and you may be able to narrow it down to a single component or a certain strectch of wiring..." https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070213164332AAfd7N5

sorry to tell you but you have a blown headgasket or cracked cylinder head. that is why the coolant blows out of the radiator and the engine won't start due to engine compression getting into the cooling system.

Look in the fuel pump/filter area?

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No fire at the plugs means no power to the coil/coils or the coil/coils are bad. You say it won't start, I'll take that it does crank over and won't fire. You have to have power from the switch to the coil, coil to distributor, and cranking sends fire to plugs. With a test light, check that there IS power from the switch and ongoing. This is a must do.

could be anywhere from coolant temp sensor, throttle pos sensor, idle speed solenoid.

If you are intermittently losing crank signal that can several issues . May be bad wiring or connection issues.

By hook or by crook the door panel must be removed in order to access the internal mechanism even if it must be badly damaged and need replacing. It is usual to remove the seat to improve access.

If the bolts were not tightened evenly in an X pattern, you could have a hairline crack in the flange. JB weld works good in applications like this if applied neatly.

On the slave cylinder on the Transmission

Possible bad tire. Or bad cv joints.

Open door from outside remove interior door panel replace interior door handle these break all the time cheap plastic.

Clean egr valve, check map sensor, check replace engine temp sensor.

Engine rings or valves no longer hold enough compression due to excessive engine wear.