so i just got home from vacation and i wanted to go for a little cruise. Now the car has been sitting for a week now,so i let it warm up for about 30-40 mins and head out. Everything is fine and dandy till this morning i get gas and no matter what gear im in when i go to speed up the car just jerks and jerks as the exhaust pops and pops...any ideas what it is. Going to the dealership tmr i just hope they have room for me. Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks

 

so it was running fine until after you put the gas in?

 

yea, is in the gas though

 

You're misfiring sounds like

Does your "Check Engine" light flash when it does it?

 

sounds like bad gas to me...

 

no cel no nothing just jerks whenever i speed up

 

With NJHK on this Steve, sounds like a misfire.

 

whats causeing the misfireing though

 

contaminated fuel....could be water in the fuel, along with anything else that worked it's way into the tank. A word of advice though, if it is bad fuel, the dealership will probably not cover it under warranty...

 

This has happened to me when I was about out of gas...but yeah it does sound like you misfiring...seems to be a common cobalt thing...

 

Get through that tank and find a different station

 

ok well i wasted the fuel and put in 10 bucks on new fuel and its started up again on the way home. All day i was good until i was coming home. Any body got any ideas. Should i change out my injectors buy some kind of cleaner. this sucks big ones

 

there is a additive you can put into your tank to get the water out of it.. i had to do that with my old sentra becuase the gas station had water in there tanks i forgot what its called... but its basicly isoprobyl alcohol... (sp?) (rubbing alcohol lol) try that out worked for me

 

why the hell would you let your car warm up for 40 minutes lol

 

was gone for a week and it wasnt touched for that intire week and it got cold her in while i was gone.

 

put "heat" in the gas tank and if there is water it will get rid of it

 

its BS we are paying higher for gas and they are watering it down I dont care what u say i use to get 100miles before my gas hand fell off of F now it does it at 65 and 70.

 

i thought it was the corn they are putting in it to make it burn cleaner

wait not corn..... what is it???

 

DRY GAS!! thats what its called lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_gas anyway i use about a quarter to a half a bottle of rubbing alcohol if this happens... an it happend to my mom once she left he gas cap off an it rained lol.. it dryed it right up an the nexttank it ran like normal again

 

Yeah, use heat like an open flame and you won't have to worry about your car jerking anymore. Hell, you won't have to worry about your car at all! BOOOOOOOM.

 

its "heet" ;-)

 

thats what I was wondering??

I had bad gas once....it just pinged and the car was a bit slower. Once I ran an entire tank of good stuff through it was fine

 

well figured it out guys/girls its my exhaust...i think clogged cat maybe

 

Mine clogged about a month ago too. If your exhaust tone changed, I'd say your about right.

 

chris over at bob mcguire fixed it for me. i recommend him to everybody thats around the bordentown area