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Old 09-19-2009, 02:13 AM
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I drove to a meet, the weather was cold, no rain no nothing. Car had no CEL. Turned the car on again, it was raining and it had a CEL. Car has stock intake. Won't be able to take it to dealer till tomorrow, will the car be ok? Any idea of what it may be?
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no exhaust or test pipe? does it run normal? i think it should be fine. try resetting the ecu.
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Check to see if your gas cap is loose.
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Clearly you should stop driving the car to meets or in the rain.
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How about having the CEL pulled? No point in asking what's wrong when we don't know what the car is telling you is wrong...

It's like going to a doctor and saying:

"I hurt"

the Doc asking:

"Where do you hurt?"

and you reply:

"I don't know, I just hurt."

Pretty useless to the Doc
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You didn't happen to pump some ethanol laced fuel along the way did you? This happened to me on a cross country trip a couple of years ago. The CEL popped up and stayed on for at least two hours and of course I knew that it was the fuel. This is something we don't see in my area of the country and wasn't expeceted and only noted during the fill-up.
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If you still have a CEL and want to save yourself some money, take the car to Autozone or a similar parts place and they should be able to pull the codes for free. Then post back what the codes are.
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Could be a dozen things. Get the code pulled and go from there.
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