Gozar
Registered Member
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2011
- Messages
- 63
- Reaction score
- 8
- Points
- 8
- Location
- Boise, ID
- Genesis Model Type
- Genesis G80 Sport
So New Years Eve I got rear-ended on I-35 South of Austin. I stopped, car behind me stopped, car behind him did not.
Pulled to the shoulder then to a nearby gas station when the police came to get everyone in a safer location.
As I pulled away from the shoulder I could feel an unevenness from the rear end. I lived less than a mile away so drive there and left it in the garage until the body shop was ready - rear bumper dinged well and active head rests deployed, it was a hard hit.
6 days after the accident shop was ready so I started the car, heard a loud clattering sound from the left front under the hood and the check engine light stayed on.
Put it in drive and could feel a surging, even at a dead stop with my foot on the brake, felt the same on the drive to body shop 1 1/2 miles away.
The mechanic shop they used called me today, check engine light was diagnosed as multiple cyclinder mis-fire, reset the light and has not come back. They checked axles, cv joints, all wheel alignments and everything checks - car drives great. I went over and drove it and it felt fine, they think the surging I was feeling was the misfire.
Any ideas on how a rear end collision could cause this? Purely coincidental? Should I be checking something else - fuel lines/gas tank? Car has 56,000 so still under warranty - drive it be happy and keep watching it?
It was down into the 20's and 30's the whole time it sat in the garage.
Pulled to the shoulder then to a nearby gas station when the police came to get everyone in a safer location.
As I pulled away from the shoulder I could feel an unevenness from the rear end. I lived less than a mile away so drive there and left it in the garage until the body shop was ready - rear bumper dinged well and active head rests deployed, it was a hard hit.
6 days after the accident shop was ready so I started the car, heard a loud clattering sound from the left front under the hood and the check engine light stayed on.
Put it in drive and could feel a surging, even at a dead stop with my foot on the brake, felt the same on the drive to body shop 1 1/2 miles away.
The mechanic shop they used called me today, check engine light was diagnosed as multiple cyclinder mis-fire, reset the light and has not come back. They checked axles, cv joints, all wheel alignments and everything checks - car drives great. I went over and drove it and it felt fine, they think the surging I was feeling was the misfire.
Any ideas on how a rear end collision could cause this? Purely coincidental? Should I be checking something else - fuel lines/gas tank? Car has 56,000 so still under warranty - drive it be happy and keep watching it?
It was down into the 20's and 30's the whole time it sat in the garage.
