This Saturday I was coming down 95 when my check engine light came on and 2 minutes later my car lost all power and I was stuck on the side of the interstate. My car would crank perfectly and still will. The exhaust sounds kind of funny, and sometimes when it cranks it won't rev up at all, but at other times we've gotten it up to 100mph since then. It shakes very badly when its idling, acts like its starving for fuel. I took the car to autozone to run a test, came back with 4 sheets of paper with solenoids failing in the fuel, fuel pressure improper, hoses may possibly be connected wrong, cylinder 2 misfiring. Like I said I can drive the car, I'm just afraid to get too far away from the house again and avoid another 80 mile trip on a car trailer back home. I wanted some feedback before I put it in the shop, Im a girl and never worked on my car so any suggestions? I honestly think either an injector is clogged or I got ahold of some bad fuel. The car didn't start acting up until I filled up about 25 miles before. I added some Gas Treatment and Seafoam, but haven't driven it too far to get it running through.

 

Do you know what the exact CEL codes were? If I know the exact codes I can give you a better idea.

If you are not getting proper fuel pressure it can cause problems.

Has anything been done to this car? Reason I ask is how did the hoses get connected wrong?


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I finally broke down and took it to the shop. Coil pack #2 was bad. The code had been coming back cylinder #2 misfire. My car just hit 100,000 miles, so of course I figure none of the coil packs have ever been changed. I have owned the car since 60k miles, and I haven't had them changed. It was costly over 300 bucks to replace one coil pack. They said it had gotten so hot it had bubbled on the side. I never seen it for myself. Thank you for the help though. And no I haven;t had anything done to my car. It's a stock 04 sedan.