Well, I guess I did something bad to the car. I was up in Tampa yesterday and raced a red GS with it and the car was fine. Today I turned it on and it was shaking idleing a lot more than normal.

Tonight I just took my cousin home and after I put some gas in the car and was getting close to my house the Check Engine light came on.

Now here's what happens, when I stop at a light or something the car just sits there shaking idling in drive and thats what it does in park, neutral, and reverse, and drive. Anyone know what could be wrong with the car?

 

did you put the gas cap back on ?

 

There are tons of things to do but you gotta trouble shoot it a bit.

Check the gas cap like previously suggested.

You may have gotten bad gas. When you filled up at the station was the tanker truck there unloading gas for the station? Never buy gas at a station when the tanker truck is unloading. The new gas getting pumped into the station tanks stir up any sediment that may be in the station tanks and then it gets into your finely tuned engine and causes problems.

Check your sparkplugs. They will tell you allot. Might be time to change them as well.

Get new sparkplugwires.

Replace Fuel Filter.

To get rid of the Check Engine Light - Disconnect your negative battery terminal for 30 seconds then re-connect. This will reset the ECU to Factory settings. See how it runs then and if the CEL comes back on.

Generally speaking, when the CEL comes on it's time to take it to a dealership.

Good luck and keep us posted as to what happens.

 

mine did the same thing a while back, so i pulled of my fuel filter and blew the gas out....compleatly black, changed it and it was kosher. also try you plugs and wires

 

Changed my oil and transmission fluid today. Going to get new spark plugs and wires tommorow and get the fuel filter replaced, also going to get a optima battery.

I never fill up at a gas station with a tanker refilling, I just go to a different one.

Stopped doing it after I left it parked for a while and hasn't done it for 2 hours of driving so I guess it was just the oil and transmission fluid or something.

Hopefully it won't happen again when I get all the new stuff in and put in a better intake.

 

well most of the time a cel/dtc will store a code even if the light goes out, If so I can scan your car for a small fee I have my own engine scanner and stuff and I am ase certified.

 

take it to autozone and get the cel code for free.

post the code here and search for it online.

 

That's actually a good idea. I'll do it tommorow and post the codes here so that you engine gods can tell me what the hell is wrong with my car. I think its just a loose sensor like I had all the time in the Celica.

 

P0400 - The PCM has determined that a malfunction exists in the exhuast recirculation flow.

Bad EGR Valve. Ok, so what do I do? Get a new EGR Valve and install it or are there other things I can do that wouldn't require me to pay $100?

 

I dont have the same car as yours. but mine did the same thing. I changed the fuel filter and it still shook, and eventually the enigine light came on... my findings were that the fuel pump was going bad and needs to be replaced.