What does it mean when your check light is blinking?
As mentioned, a flashing check engine light signals an emergency and requires an immediate repair. The longer you drive a vehicle with a flashing CEL, the more damage you may do. If a misfire causes the flashing light, you can do severe damage to your vehicle’s catalytic converters.
Can I drive my car with the check engine light blinking?
Flashing Check Engine Light The rule of thumb is that if the check engine light is flashing, you can’t keep driving the car. It’s an emergency. Often it indicates an engine misfire. If you keep driving, you will likely cause irreversible damage, mostly to the (expensive) catalytic converter.
Why is my car shaking and check engine light flashing?
In general, if the check engine light is flashing and the car is shaking then there is a problem with one or more engine components. The problem could lie with the fuel supply, or a faulty ignition coil, bad spark plugs, or a bad engine sensor.
Will a pending code go away?
The short answer is yes. Your vehicle can pass the smog check with a pending trouble code, so long as the check engine light is not illuminated and the required emission monitors are ready. A pending trouble code may set for diagnostic purposes and will not illuminate the check engine light.
How do you check if injectors are clogged?
Dirty Fuel Injector Symptoms
- The Engine Misfires. Dirty fuel injectors may cause your vehicle’s engine to misfire.
- Idling Gets Rough. Does your vehicle sputter and shake when you’re at a stop sign or sitting in traffic?
- Your Gas Mileage Tanks.
- The RPM Needle Starts to Dance.
- Your Car Won’t Start.
Why is my car shaking and sputtering?
Dirty or Failing Spark Plugs – The job of a spark plug is to ignite the fuel in the combustion chamber. Therefore, if one is dirty or faulty, your engine will struggle to start and sputter when you hit the gas. A clogged fuel injector nozzle causes a car engine to shake and struggle to accelerate.
What is a pending fault?
Pending codes are caused by intermittent faults or faults that the PCM needs to see happen in two consecutive warm-up cycles to set the code. If the fault does not reappear within 40 warm-up cycles, the code will be cleared from memory.
