 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / Kia Cars / September 20072000 Kia Sephia Idle's Rough and sluggish accelleration
Hello all, I am by no means a "car guy". By that I mean, I can do minor repairs but I wouldn't know where to begin to overhaul the engine. I have a 2000 kia sephia with close to 150k miles on it. Yesterday I noticed it runs sluggish when accelerating and started idling rough. Before I take it to a mechanic, I was wondering if there was some things I could try myself to correct this issue. Thanks, GuyInTn > Hello all, > > I am by no means a "car guy". By that I mean, I can do minor repairs > but I wouldn't know where to begin to overhaul the engine. I have a Try some car/fuel injector spray. Had doubts it would help but a guy in work swore by it , he sprayed some in the intake with the air filter out ... worked very well . i'm a kia tech has timing belt been changed if not it could have sliped a tooth or 2 is check engine light on ? and the other cause coule be cloged cat converters >Hello all, > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Thanks, >GuyInTn > i'm a kia tech has timing belt been changed if not it could have > sliped a tooth or 2 is check engine light on ? and the other cause > coule be cloged cat converters A slipped timing belt? That's a good one. If it slips more than a tooth you'll have a lot more than sluggish performance to worry over. To the original poster: Your symptoms could have a multitude of causes. Do you have an illuminated check engine light while driving? Any work done recently? Generally speaking, a rough idle starting all at once without ANY prior symptoms sounds like an ignition problem to me, with the plug wires being the first thing I would check. Chris Change your spark plugs!! I have a 2003 Rio, and one day it just went from running perfectly to barely stumbling along. I put in a new set of plugs, and it runs like new. With just 122000 klms on it, (about 77000 miles)I can't figure out why. The plugs I took out don't look bad at all, but don't look a gift KIA in the grill. HA-HA! -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutautos.com/group/alt.autos.kia/ More information at http://www.talkaboutautos.com/faq.html
|
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.