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My check engine light came on this morning. It could be a number of things. I'm going to go to Autozone after work and get the error codes. For now though, I'm just wondering if anyone has a clue as to what the problem may be. Here is a brief timeline of the car over the past weekend:
Friday - Drove to NH (about 150 miles) in the pouring rain
- Parked the car in a field overnight in the rain
Saturday - Drove 10 miles to another field
- Went through some puddles, nothing too deep ( < 1 foot deep )
Sunday - Drove home from NH (150 miles)
Now, I didn't experience any problems until this morning as I was driving to work. About 10 minutes into my commute, whenever I accelerated, it felt like the car was shaking a little bit, and was sluggish. I was low on gas (light was on for about 10 miles), so I figured it might be this.
So, I went to the gas station to fill up. At first, the gas pump would not pump. It was stuck inbetween the transfer from "selecting the octane" button push to the point where I can pump gas. After about a minute, the transfer occurred and I was able to pump the gas.
While filling my tank, I got to the point where I thought it would be full. All of a sudden, the gas pump clicked like it was done, but instead gas kept going into the tank, and it overfilled. I had gas dripping down the side of my car!!! I didn't know what to do so I just got a rag and wiped down the car and left.
Driving away from the gas station, acceleration felt a little better and the car didn't shake as much. Of course, about 10 miles later, the CEL began blinking, and then staying on, then blinking again, until finally it just stayed on solid. Once again, acceleration is sluggish and the car shakes when I get above 3k RPMs.
So does anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance.
Sorry for the long post. Cliff notes:
- Drove car fine over the weekend in the rain for over 300 miles
- Low on gas this morning, car was sluggish and shaking a little during acceleration
- Filled up gas, tank overfilled
- Drove 10 more miles, CEL blinked, stayed solid, blinked again, then finally stayed solid
- Acceleration is sluggish and car shakes over 3k RPMs
My check engine light came on this morning. It could be a number of things. I'm going to go to Autozone after work and get the error codes. For now though, I'm just wondering if anyone has a clue as to what the problem may be. Here is a brief timeline of the car over the past weekend:
Friday - Drove to NH (about 150 miles) in the pouring rain
- Parked the car in a field overnight in the rain
Saturday - Drove 10 miles to another field
- Went through some puddles, nothing too deep ( < 1 foot deep )
Sunday - Drove home from NH (150 miles)
Now, I didn't experience any problems until this morning as I was driving to work. About 10 minutes into my commute, whenever I accelerated, it felt like the car was shaking a little bit, and was sluggish. I was low on gas (light was on for about 10 miles), so I figured it might be this.
So, I went to the gas station to fill up. At first, the gas pump would not pump. It was stuck inbetween the transfer from "selecting the octane" button push to the point where I can pump gas. After about a minute, the transfer occurred and I was able to pump the gas.
While filling my tank, I got to the point where I thought it would be full. All of a sudden, the gas pump clicked like it was done, but instead gas kept going into the tank, and it overfilled. I had gas dripping down the side of my car!!! I didn't know what to do so I just got a rag and wiped down the car and left.
Driving away from the gas station, acceleration felt a little better and the car didn't shake as much. Of course, about 10 miles later, the CEL began blinking, and then staying on, then blinking again, until finally it just stayed on solid. Once again, acceleration is sluggish and the car shakes when I get above 3k RPMs.
So does anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance.
Sorry for the long post. Cliff notes:
- Drove car fine over the weekend in the rain for over 300 miles
- Low on gas this morning, car was sluggish and shaking a little during acceleration
- Filled up gas, tank overfilled
- Drove 10 more miles, CEL blinked, stayed solid, blinked again, then finally stayed solid
- Acceleration is sluggish and car shakes over 3k RPMs
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Shaking could be misfiring.
Do you have a CAI ?
How hard did you hit the puddles ? Water could have possibly gotten somewhere it doesn't need to be.
Do you have a CAI ?
How hard did you hit the puddles ? Water could have possibly gotten somewhere it doesn't need to be.
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No CAI and I did not hit the puddles hard at all. The car was also fine on the 150 mile drive back from NH on Sunday.
Could it be spark plugs? I have 52,000 miles on the car now and I don't believe they've been changed.
Could it be spark plugs? I have 52,000 miles on the car now and I don't believe they've been changed.
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A flashing CEL indicates an intermittant DTC. Such as random cylinder misfires. It could be a number of things. If you can still drive the car it has nothing to do with water or puddles. If you sucked up some water your engine would be toast as you can not combust water and you would have bent a rod already.
Spark plugs shouldn't need changed until 100k. Sounds like coil on one or more of the cylinders is bad.
Spark plugs shouldn't need changed until 100k. Sounds like coil on one or more of the cylinders is bad.
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Yep, you guys hit it right on the head. I am fucked, to say the least. KILL ME NOW!!!
P0302 - Cylinder 2 Misfire
P0303 - Cylinder 3 Misfire
P0304 - Cylinder 4 Misfire
P0305 - Cylinder 5 Misfire
P0306 - Cylinder 6 Misfire
P030* - Random Misfire
So my questions are:
1.) What in the hell caused this?
2.) What needs to be done?
3.) Is it covered under warranty?
4.) If not, how much is it gonna cost?
P0302 - Cylinder 2 Misfire
P0303 - Cylinder 3 Misfire
P0304 - Cylinder 4 Misfire
P0305 - Cylinder 5 Misfire
P0306 - Cylinder 6 Misfire
P030* - Random Misfire
So my questions are:
1.) What in the hell caused this?
2.) What needs to be done?
3.) Is it covered under warranty?
4.) If not, how much is it gonna cost?
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Originally Posted by mc_yanzo
Yep, you guys hit it right on the head. I am fucked, to say the least. KILL ME NOW!!!
P0302 - Cylinder 2 Misfire
P0303 - Cylinder 3 Misfire
P0304 - Cylinder 4 Misfire
P0305 - Cylinder 5 Misfire
P0306 - Cylinder 6 Misfire
P030* - Random Misfire
So my questions are:
1.) What in the hell caused this?
2.) What needs to be done?
3.) Is it covered under warranty?
4.) If not, how much is it gonna cost?
P0302 - Cylinder 2 Misfire
P0303 - Cylinder 3 Misfire
P0304 - Cylinder 4 Misfire
P0305 - Cylinder 5 Misfire
P0306 - Cylinder 6 Misfire
P030* - Random Misfire
So my questions are:
1.) What in the hell caused this?
2.) What needs to be done?
3.) Is it covered under warranty?
4.) If not, how much is it gonna cost?
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Originally Posted by mc_yanzo
It's getting towed to the dealer tomorrow. Thanks for the help guys.
LMK
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i re read your initial post and if the car cruises fine but only is dead when you punch it ...it sounds exactly like a fouled cat...when i looked at mine some of the first layers of ceramic where broken some peices big some small and some dust...i figure when i accelerated this moved everything to the back causing a worse clog
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Originally Posted by mrsteve
You need to take it to the dealership and have it looked at. I'd be willing to be a coil went bad. It isn't uncommon for our coil-on-plug system to fail.
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yeah i though so, no problem. thats why i do this stuff for a living, you have to pay attention or you can chase yourself around for hours, its happened to me a couple of times. we will see tomorrow what he says they found.
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Originally Posted by civicking
yeah i though so, no problem. thats why i do this stuff for a living, you have to pay attention or you can chase yourself around for hours, its happened to me a couple of times. we will see tomorrow what he says they found.
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Originally Posted by typeR
i got money on the CAT
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Hey typeR, I read your thread on the cat. So I'm thinking that may be it as well. At least that's what I'm hoping. I really don't know what could have caused it, as like I said before I drove 300 miles over the weekend with no problems, but then 10 minutes into my morning commute on Monday the problems started.
Do I unbolt the cat from the engine or from the exhaust pipe? I'm assuming the engine, but I'd like to be sure. What tools would I need, just a socket wrench?
Another strange thing is the gas overflow, but I think this is due to the DTCs being triggered. Am I correct here?
Do I unbolt the cat from the engine or from the exhaust pipe? I'm assuming the engine, but I'd like to be sure. What tools would I need, just a socket wrench?
Another strange thing is the gas overflow, but I think this is due to the DTCs being triggered. Am I correct here?
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Originally Posted by civicking
we will see, the thing with that a cat is that its damaged by somthing, usually with low miles they don't get damaged because of just nothing, if it is the cat you have to figure out what happened to keep it from happening again, was it running rich and burned up the cat, did somthing break in the motor and threw it in to the cat ( ring part, vavle part, casting flash, ect), did you hit something and smashed the cat that way, was it bad from the factory. something is up, usually a cats life time is at least 150,000 mile with everything running good.
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Originally Posted by mc_yanzo
Hey typeR, I read your thread on the cat. So I'm thinking that may be it as well. At least that's what I'm hoping. I really don't know what could have caused it, as like I said before I drove 300 miles over the weekend with no problems, but then 10 minutes into my morning commute on Monday the problems started.
Do I unbolt the cat from the engine or from the exhaust pipe? I'm assuming the engine, but I'd like to be sure. What tools would I need, just a socket wrench?
Another strange thing is the gas overflow, but I think this is due to the DTCs being triggered. Am I correct here?
Do I unbolt the cat from the engine or from the exhaust pipe? I'm assuming the engine, but I'd like to be sure. What tools would I need, just a socket wrench?
Another strange thing is the gas overflow, but I think this is due to the DTCs being triggered. Am I correct here?
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If it is the CAT, it should still be under warranty. I just had mine changed at 56K, because the insides all came apart. I didn't get any CEL's though. I would take it to the dealer and have them look at it rather than try to take it apart your self.
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Originally Posted by typeR
could a cat be damaged if it were nice and hot and then all of a sudden got dunked in water?
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Originally Posted by civicking
i don't think so, i have never heard of that happening, and i don't see how it could happen, the most you coudl do is crakc a flang, becasue of the rapid cool down, the the inside of a cat is special ceramics, that can move and change shape.
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Originally Posted by typeR
just looking for a reason...but you now have two people in this thread that have had there cats replaced because the insides were broken
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My check engine light came on this morning...took it to AutoZone and it spit out a P0 104...or somthing like that...not sure if thats right, but he unit said "EGR flow insufficient" Called the dealership and it will be replaced under warrenty on Friday....
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Originally Posted by silvervtec96
My check engine light came on this morning...took it to AutoZone and it spit out a P0 104...or somthing like that...not sure if thats right, but he unit said "EGR flow insufficient" Called the dealership and it will be replaced under warrenty on Friday....
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not sure how long the warranty is supposed to last, i have the 100k/7yr warranty which has covered every thing that I have needed it to. In your warrenty manual there is a section on different emmission parts that have longer warrenty per federal regulations so i think you have to go part/system by part/system.
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Originally Posted by louisn
Is the warranty on emissions (egr? catalitic converter?) longer per federal law than the factory warranty of 4/50?
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Yes it is possible. The ECU can throw unrelated DTC's for odd reasons. I had three odd DTC's stored when my O2 sensor failed. One for the O2 sensor and two for something to do with the VSA system. I tried clearing all 3 codes but they kept coming back. Once the O2 sensor was replaced, cleared all 3 codes and both of the VSA codes that came up at the same time also went away.
I told you it was a coil
I'm 2 for 2 in this thread.
I told you it was a coil
I'm 2 for 2 in this thread.
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