Hahaha! Well that explains why i was having such a hard time finding it! Thank you for pointing that out! That couldve been unnecessarily costly! We replaced the vacuum hoses and its definitely better but does still choke only slightly and occasionally when in park. Otherwise, runs fine.

Thank you all for your advice! I believe Ive found the problem(s). One of the bolts that holds the ground wire for coil #3 was loose and everytime it wiggled , the car would sputter and misfire. We tightened the bolt and the sputtering/CEL issue is fixed. As it turns out there were 2 issues we origi...

Thanks so much for your reply! Im not sure i understand the swapping though. If i put the new #1 coil in the #5 spot, whats going to tell me the coil is bad? Another code? Im confused.

This is becoming a goose chase! I just bought her a month ago and she suddenly began sputtering, wouldn't accelerate, CEL began flashing. A friend of mine is a mechanic. She took a look and said my coil#1 is bad. I ordered a new one from volvopartswharehouse.com, put it in and the problem seemed to ...