First time posting and not that handy with a car. With that said...
I've got a 2008 Accent SE at around 160,000 KM.
Recently the engine has started having these random sputters both while idle and while driving. I had gotten an error code for a Crank Position Sensor error which disappeared on it's own. I'm also getting a problem with my dashboard that causes the handbreak light to come on for a second, then it turns off and all the gauges drop for another second, and then everything comes back up again. This will happen randomly while I am driving the car. It seems to be worst in rain/high humidity.
I took my car in to the mechanics and he told me that my alternator was causing problems.
$500 bucks later I'm still in the same situation. It resolved nothing.
I changed my own crank position sensor to no change in behavior either.
The wires connecting my blower fan were apparently corroded causing the fan to stop this weekend, so I was hoping that might have been the cause of the electrical issues, but after separating the wires and isolating them with tape nothing changed.
Looking to try changing my sparkplugs next for the sputtering...but after that I'm out of cheap ideas...
I don't know if the two issues are related, sometimes you get a sputters on it's own, sometimes the dash reboots on it's own, sometimes they are at the same time, maybe because of the movement of the car causing a short somewhere...
I've got a 2008 Accent SE at around 160,000 KM.
Recently the engine has started having these random sputters both while idle and while driving. I had gotten an error code for a Crank Position Sensor error which disappeared on it's own. I'm also getting a problem with my dashboard that causes the handbreak light to come on for a second, then it turns off and all the gauges drop for another second, and then everything comes back up again. This will happen randomly while I am driving the car. It seems to be worst in rain/high humidity.
I took my car in to the mechanics and he told me that my alternator was causing problems.
$500 bucks later I'm still in the same situation. It resolved nothing.
I changed my own crank position sensor to no change in behavior either.
The wires connecting my blower fan were apparently corroded causing the fan to stop this weekend, so I was hoping that might have been the cause of the electrical issues, but after separating the wires and isolating them with tape nothing changed.
Looking to try changing my sparkplugs next for the sputtering...but after that I'm out of cheap ideas...
I don't know if the two issues are related, sometimes you get a sputters on it's own, sometimes the dash reboots on it's own, sometimes they are at the same time, maybe because of the movement of the car causing a short somewhere...