Mitchell3
06-28-2013, 09:24 PM
As I've said in a few recent posts, I had the car towed to Forbes Mazda today after work. I don't know what it is. The past few mornings I have been having sketchy start ups first thing in the morning, and this started happening just recently. It sounds pitchy in the sense that it sounds as if I were revving it slightly repeatedly. Also in the exhaust note it cracks every so often.
Anyways that's the background info that I thought at first it may be related to. I pulled out of work fine, and as I start speeding I get this (not my video or car):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrXTGTv__yo
Basically it sounds like I am out of gas. Before you ask, I had a half tank. Anyway it kept running as I pulled up to a red light and I thought god I hope that was just a weird fluke. But I turn left up a hill and it worked fine through 1st and 2nd but when it hit 3rd it started again and slowly slowed down until it stopped and died. I tried turning it back on and it would last maybe 0.75 seconds before dying again. The only way I could get it to stay on was if I could get to high enough rpms by revving it. But I have less than 0.75 seconds to floor it at the right time so its hard as hell. Then it sounds completely normal. Its just the 3000rpm and lower. But if I let it drop lower it dies out again. So I tried a couple times. Letting it sit helped a bit but still couldn't get far.. So I got it towed. The part that worries me is maybe its because of all the rain and puddles EVERYWHERE and my CAI that maybe that is causing it. I did have to go through one bad one to even get in my office parking lot. But I am not convinced after watching a couple youtube videos and googling it a bit that its hydrolocked, it seems like different symptoms. Plus it seems consistent with the noises I hear in the morning but 100x worse.
Any clues?
Anyways that's the background info that I thought at first it may be related to. I pulled out of work fine, and as I start speeding I get this (not my video or car):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrXTGTv__yo
Basically it sounds like I am out of gas. Before you ask, I had a half tank. Anyway it kept running as I pulled up to a red light and I thought god I hope that was just a weird fluke. But I turn left up a hill and it worked fine through 1st and 2nd but when it hit 3rd it started again and slowly slowed down until it stopped and died. I tried turning it back on and it would last maybe 0.75 seconds before dying again. The only way I could get it to stay on was if I could get to high enough rpms by revving it. But I have less than 0.75 seconds to floor it at the right time so its hard as hell. Then it sounds completely normal. Its just the 3000rpm and lower. But if I let it drop lower it dies out again. So I tried a couple times. Letting it sit helped a bit but still couldn't get far.. So I got it towed. The part that worries me is maybe its because of all the rain and puddles EVERYWHERE and my CAI that maybe that is causing it. I did have to go through one bad one to even get in my office parking lot. But I am not convinced after watching a couple youtube videos and googling it a bit that its hydrolocked, it seems like different symptoms. Plus it seems consistent with the noises I hear in the morning but 100x worse.
Any clues?