The story goes: Car has driven awesome since I got it 3-4 months ago until today. I drove to work, no problems, I left work, no problems. I stop for gas at a valero, get my 12 gallons of 91, and the car starts shuddering like its about to stall. I give it some gas, it shudders but ends up moving me along, but as soon as I push the clutch in and revs drop below about 1500, it stalls. I got out and don't notice anything glaringly obvious, nothing dripping, nothing broken, but I'm no mechanic...
I try to turn it on again, no luck, it was like I had no battery. Let it sit a minute or two and it worked ok for a couple hundred yards before the CEL started flashing and the engine got very rough, then it stalled again at low RPM. I managed to drive it home about 2 miles by keeping the RPM above 2k the entire time, but when I parked there was a little bit of white smoke (smelled sweet maybe?) coming from the upper right side of the engine compartment.
I let it sit for an hour or so and decided to try it out. It was ok for about a mile, but then it started up again.
My guess, after reading some info here and elsewhere, is it may be something with the coolant. I am planning to take it to a mechanic tomorrow, unless one of you guys has any experience with this particular problem and knows an easy fix. Thanks!
I try to turn it on again, no luck, it was like I had no battery. Let it sit a minute or two and it worked ok for a couple hundred yards before the CEL started flashing and the engine got very rough, then it stalled again at low RPM. I managed to drive it home about 2 miles by keeping the RPM above 2k the entire time, but when I parked there was a little bit of white smoke (smelled sweet maybe?) coming from the upper right side of the engine compartment.
I let it sit for an hour or so and decided to try it out. It was ok for about a mile, but then it started up again.
My guess, after reading some info here and elsewhere, is it may be something with the coolant. I am planning to take it to a mechanic tomorrow, unless one of you guys has any experience with this particular problem and knows an easy fix. Thanks!
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