Quite the annoyance
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don't even worry about it
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Quite the annoyance
A bit ago (like May-ish) I had an issue one day where the car would start really chugging, it was visibly shaking and idling around 500 or so, then it would go away just as random as it showed up, and the next morning it was as if nothing had happened...just as smooth as ever. I hadn't experienced this problem again until today, when I drove to pick up my brother at the train station. The annoying thing is that the problem immediately went away when I filled up the tank (it was around 1/2 full). I know it can't be the fuel filter or the spark plugs / wires as I did those a little before I hit 60K (which was only about 2 weeks ago
). Could it just be that I had two separate bad tanks of gas, or is there something I'm missing?
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wow, is that 60k original miles??
are your spark plug wires in good shape? it could be your injectors acting up, dist. cap, could be many things sounds like a temporary misfire. if it were me, i wouldn't worry too much. i'd just wait and if it gets worse, it will be much easier to diagnose.
are your spark plug wires in good shape? it could be your injectors acting up, dist. cap, could be many things sounds like a temporary misfire. if it were me, i wouldn't worry too much. i'd just wait and if it gets worse, it will be much easier to diagnose.
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Originally Posted by Josh
Sounds like an intermittent fuel injector, mine did the same thing for about a year, does it feel like it is smoothing out if you rev it higher?
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Originally Posted by Infamous93Max
Thats sounds like my case. I have to change my fuel injector
Another piece of observation here is that I used to get these problems mostly after prolonged use of Ethanol based gas. So now I am making it a point to use Regular gas (87 octane rating) and occasional use of Techron/Valvoline fuel injector cleaner.
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