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I was driving down the highway at about 65MPH, in 5th gear, when my Engine shut off for a second. The car bogged down because it was still in gear, and the "Check Engine" light came on just for the second that the engine was stalled. It started right back up. I don't know much about these "modern" cars with thier computers and techno-gyzmetry, but I remember hearing something about a loose gas cap causeing the "Check Engine" light to come on. I pulled over and double checked that I had indeed put the gas cap on correctly. I then drove to the dealership, and asked a service tech about it. He said that the gas cap would not have caused it to cut-out like that, but to just keep driving it to see if it does it again. (2 days latter and no problem yet)
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Any ideas what this could have been? Perhaps a little bit of water in the gas? ECU, AFM,PCV, CIA, ATF? Should I be worried about this? Coming from the world of old VWs, I still have a hard time trusting that my car will allways make it where I need to go.
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Shane
'06 Kia Rio5
'86 VW Westfalia Vanagon GL
'72 VW Super Beetle w/ 2234cc
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(Not responsible for people thinking I'm smart)
Have your dealer check the codes. Mine started runing rough and hesitating when wet. I took it in yesterday and they replaced the coil pack and put new spark plugs in as well. They sprayed the engine and drove it to see if it persisted, and it was fixed. Only minor bug I've had, it's been otherwise splendid. Figured they got a cracked coil from the supplier...it happens. I used to work for a Toyota-owned switch maker in Battle Creek, we had a switch fail in a customer's new Toyota, and we heard about it. The defective switch became a strong topic of the morning's quality exhortations...the bad switch came all the way back to the plant.
Have a friend that works in automotive supplier. Chrysler wont just send the part back, they send the whole shipment back. Supplier to eat the shipping costs. Not much common sense there, eh?
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<span style=\'color:red\'>You fight dirt all your life, and when you die they bury you in it....</span>.
Usually when that happened (defective part found at the automaker's plant) we'd send people out to sort, and do a 100% sort on all stock and the end of the line the part came from. Didn't happen often, but we'd occasionally have to send people to Toyota in KY, NUMMI in CA, the Chrysler plant in Canada, or Ford, or Saturn. That can get rather expensive in a hurry, especially when you have to shut the line down for a quality issue. A part of me misses all that, it was fun to work in the auto industry.
The EXACT same thing happened to my girlfriends Rio5!
We were driving back from Toronto (to Montreal), going about 100-120 km/h (around 65mph), when all of a sudden, I had the check engine light, the check fuel cap light and I *think* the check oil light (I'm not sure what the third one was, I was concentrating on pulling over to the side!) and a loss of power.
After maybe 30 seconds, everything started up again and it ran fine ever since. My girlfriend is a little scared to drive it now, but I think it must have been some minor computer/eletrical glitch.
Again, have your dealer run a scan on it. Do it soon, in case the cached errors clear out after a certain length of time (not sure how persistent the data are in the computer).
Mine's been running superbly, just had that coil pack kink to iron out. Really happy with it, it's a great little car.
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