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Hello, I have a Hyundai Accent 2003 automatic with a little over 170,000 miles. I have personally replaced all fuel injectors but I still have this intermittent problem of the engine shutting off. It occurs when my car is sitting in traffic or sitting for a long time at a drive-thru. I do not believe it's electrical because while the engine shuts off the radio continues to play. Typically when this happens, I shut off the car completely, then immediately restart it. Today is the first time that it did not immediately restart. I was sitting in a drive-thru listening to the engine and I could tell it was going to quit soon because, it sounded like it's "breaths" were drawn out, I don't know how else to describe it. The engine turned off, my radio was still on and I shut off the car completely and when I tried to turn it back on, I could hear the engine trying to turn on but it would not. I let my car sit for five minutes and I tried to turn it on and boy did it struggle to turn on! While it did turn on the car began to vibrate and it seemed it would shut off again so while I was paying for my order, I had the car in park and then gave it the gas. It seemed when I gave it gas it wouldn't vibrate as much. Anyhow, once I got out of the drive thru and on to open road where I can keep the gas going, the car leveled out. Now originally, I was going to just replace the crankshaft sensor because it's a cheap enough part but this is the first time it's vibrated during such an episode and I'm beginning to wonder if that means it's not the crankshaft and instead something more. Additional background information: I have an inkling that my fuel pump (?) needs to be replaced because when I was topping off my gas, my car would shake the same way it shook today. I have stopped topping off my gas and I didn't feel the shaking since, until today. My tank is currently half full so I do not believe it's the fuel pump that caused the shaking this time. Any help is greatly appreciated as I am on a very tight budget and intend to fix this myself. Thanks!
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"I do not believe it's electrical because while the engine shuts off the radio continues to play"??? yep,the radio will play because the switch is on!!and the car is probably shaking because you over filled the tank with gas and it filled up the vapor canister.if you are thinking the fuel pump needs replacing,you just might be wrong.check the fuel pressure,test the crank sensor,test everything!!! you can guess at it all day long.testing needs to be done,and not THINK something needs replaced,when it does not.don't ever ASSUME!or the next thing you know,you will have around 2 grand tied up in throwing parts at it!
The symptoms described are indicative of an intermittently flooded engine, 'possibly' from *previous* occasions of overfilling gas tank and raw fuel has entered the EVAP system and is being drawn into engine , as stated above.. The check engine light should be on.. In any event, suggest full scan test to determine the actual culprit!
I did use a code scanner and found the following codes, seems like its gonna be a pricey fix! P0112 p0300 p0301 p0302 p0121 p0106 p0303 jeepers.
my car is Hyudai 2003 the problem is that after driving for 15 minutes or less, and parked when I try to turn it on, it sounds like it does not have enough battery. So I then have to wait around 1 hour for it to cool down, then it will start to work. Four days ago, a sensor was changed and the mechanic said it was not going to have anymore problems, but the problem as stated above did occur, so how can I fix this problem?
Thanks for the reply Steve, but I did mention in my post that the tank is only half full. I haven't filled the tank since this past Monday.