So today I'm pulling out of the dorm parking lot at school, and when I start the car and stick it into reverse it starts to shake really bad. It also did it when it was at low rpms in Drive (auto tranny), so Im goin down the road while its shaking and when I accelerate and get to about 2500 rpms the SES light begins to blink for about 30 seconds or so, then stops. I pull up to a redlight and the car starts to shake again, same thing on acceleration with the SES light, blinks for about 30 seconds, so I see an AutoZone up ahead and I pull in to get codes pulled, I go inside and get the guy to come out and when he tries to pull codes we get nothing. So I start the car and drive it a little bit and it runs like it's brand new, no shaking or SES light.. just perfect...... what could this be? bad gas (shell premium is in there now)? transmission problem? something in the engine? Thanks in advance for the help

 

maybe something got stuck in the fuel lines?

 

could be something mechanical rather than electrical (sensor oriented) which explains why no codes were thrown.

 

have done 60k maintenance? ie; change fuel filter, spark plugs,...? if not, how to link can be found in my sig under 4th gen how-to's

 

It can't show the SES light if there are no codes, can it? it's just so random that it stopped as soon as I got to autozone to get codes read(maybe it knew I was on my way to test drive a '99 5sp..haha)... I dunno, hopefully it's nothing too serious, it's done this once before back about 2 months ago. As for the 60K, it's coming very soon, just gotta get a few more $ and I'll be set. I also forgot to mention that when it does this, it has a strong smell of gas, and eggs... so I'm guessing something to do with the fuel system?

 

When I was driving my mom's Civic before I got the Max, the car would shake while stopped or driving slowly and it had loss of power. Took it to my mechanic and he drove it around the block and told me that it needed a full tuneup. We let him do it and it runs fine now The car had like 50k miles on it when it happened, but it's a 95 so it was running on factory stuff for 7 years. The previous owner didn't do much maintainance.

Since you need a tuneup anyways, just do it and it'll probably solve your problem. Use NGK copper plugs since they're cheaper

 

awesome, I'll try to get one ASAP... thanks for the help