If your car’s fuel injectors are clogged, there is no handy light that lets you know what’s happening. It’s up to you to recognize that there’s a problem at all, and Clark’s Professional Car Care is here to help.
There Isn’t Enough Power
If your car seems to be sluggish lately, you’re likely not imagining it. Clogged fuel injectors can lead to a lack of response when you ask your car to get up and go. It might even have a sluggish response when you’re just asking it to move even a little bit.
You Feel Lots of Vibration When You Hit the Gas
One issue you might experience when you hit the gas pedal, besides some hesitation, could be vibrations. If there isn’t enough fuel in the cylinders, combustion isn’t happening the way that it should. That’s going to translate to you as vibrations that you feel when you try to accelerate.
The Engine Starts Hard and Runs Rough
Rough idling and hard starting are some big problems. Often these issues indicate that your car’s engine is starved for fuel. That can happen for a variety of reasons, but the simplest reason is that the fuel injectors are too clogged to let the right amount of gas into the engine.
And Gas Mileage Is Terrible
It shouldn’t be shocking that problems with the fuel injectors mean that you’ve got some pretty terrible gas mileage happening. The right amount of gas isn’t getting through the fuel injectors, so that could prompt the ECM to try to send more fuel through. That doesn’t fix the problem, of course, and the gas that does get into the engine isn’t burned efficiently at all.
You’re Seeing the Check Engine Light
The big warning sign of any sort of trouble is of course the check engine light. This is a big warning that lets you know you really need to take your car in for some diagnostic testing. An experienced technician will be able to figure out what’s happening and get your car the services that it needs most.
If you’re noticing some of these problems with your car, don’t wait. Give us a call at Clark’s Professional Car Care in Pascagoula and D’Iberville, MS. We’ll thoroughly diagnose the problem and let you know exactly what’s happening with your car. If the problem is more serious than clogged fuel injectors, we’ll find that, too.
