Flashing is a misfire event detected. Your engine may have managed to cough out whatever was causing that cylinder not to fire. A blockage in the fuel injector most likely, at least if it managed to cure itself.
My wife got the flashing one with very rough idling, I checked the fault codes and it was misfire on multiple cylinders. I replaced the ignition coil and now it purrs like a kitten again.
I had that happen, and it ended up being the valve cover gasket leaking oil into my spark plug wells. I thought it was just the coils but after replacing them, the error came back a few days later. The gasket fixed it until I replaced the car.
I had flashing once, it wouldn’t get up over like 50mph anymore suddenly. I found a shop and they replaced the… I keep forgetting the name… It was a bar that sits across the spark plugs, it fires the plugs, it was getting oil and shorting.
Flashing is a misfire event detected. Your engine may have managed to cough out whatever was causing that cylinder not to fire. A blockage in the fuel injector most likely, at least if it managed to cure itself.
My wife got the flashing one with very rough idling, I checked the fault codes and it was misfire on multiple cylinders. I replaced the ignition coil and now it purrs like a kitten again.
I had that happen, and it ended up being the valve cover gasket leaking oil into my spark plug wells. I thought it was just the coils but after replacing them, the error came back a few days later. The gasket fixed it until I replaced the car.
I had flashing once, it wouldn’t get up over like 50mph anymore suddenly. I found a shop and they replaced the… I keep forgetting the name… It was a bar that sits across the spark plugs, it fires the plugs, it was getting oil and shorting.