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Personal Narrative-Vapor Canister Vent Solenoid
In the morning on a cold October morning I went to start my car to let it warm up I saw a bright yellow light on the dashboard that showed, “Service Engine Soon. As soon I saw the engine light I waited until I had to leave for school and I got into my car and drove to O'reilly's Auto Parts store and asked one of the employees that worked there to pull the codes from my check engine light. One of the employees came outside, plugged their OBD II scanner under the steering wheel of the car and pulled a code P0440 which meant something in the EVAP was faulty or leaking.
Therefore, when I got to school, I look up the parts that could affect the EVAP system to fail to pop up was either the Vapor Canister Purge Solenoid, or the Vapor Canister Vent Solenoid.
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On a cold, sunny fall day I went under my car on my cold driveway and found the location of the two faulty car parts. The first one was under the gas cap and I took my undersized needle nose pliers, then removed the rusty aged hose clamp and removed the part. As I was removing the faulty part I felt like an experienced mechanic when I was removing the faulty parts without breaking anything. When I put the new parts in I felt like winning a game of golf.
Nevertheless, my car was incredibly mature it was a 2003 Buick Regal Joseph Abboud edition with only 74K on it. Before I owned the car my grandma had it, and she kept it outside for the majority of its life and didn’t have loads of money so she couldn’t take care of it a large amount of the time. The car’s underbody had tons of corrosion and was extremely brittle and would bend when you would jack the car on a car jack. I took my time taking the ancient vacuum lines of the car since they were dreadfully old and could break awfully

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