The car had been misfiring for close to a month and today it stopped doing it completely. I figured it might be the spark plugs. The wiring was replaced last year, but I heard that can go bad quick anyway. The car is running great now. What might have happened? Is fuel injector clearner an answer?
2007-12-20 15:42:13 · 5 answers · asked by ross 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
How do you know it was misfiring? Just about the only way to know if an engine misfire is (a) hook up a oscilloscope or (b) hook up a odbII scanner. Did you do this?
Just because the engine shake, it doen't mean the engine misfired.
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If your car was misfiring, then cleaning the fuel injector will not solve this problem.
Unless you can tell us more, anything said here would be bad guesses.
Sorry to deliver the bad news.
Good Luck
2007-12-20 16:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Lover not a Fighter 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like it could be that your car jumped timing but I can't expalin why it would be fine again all of a sudden. It may be that if you added fuel injector cleaner it corrected your problem however it sounds more like an electrical type problem rather than a fuel system problem. By electrical problem I mean associated wirh spark rather than fuel. You may want to check your distributor and see if it is loose. You can do that by trying to turn it with your hand. If you grab it and can turn it you need to have your timing reset and get the distributor tightened up again.
2007-12-20 23:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe a piece of dirt got past your filter and cloged an injector.try replacing the fuel filter
2007-12-21 01:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by =) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No vacuum leak or bad gas oil change distributor
2007-12-20 23:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by David 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elves snuck into your garage and fixed it while you slept.
2007-12-20 23:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by BFH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋