This morning my Highlander (has about 80,000 miles on it) started beeping at me ((the noise when you leave a door open, or don‘t have your seatbelt on). I looked and my gas light is on. Underneath it, it says Fuel Door. It‘s also now making a kind of rumbling bumping noise whenever I start or turn off the engine, and it stalled a bit when I tried to drive out of a parking lot.I have three quarters of a tank and I unscrewed/rescrewed the gas cap on and it still says it. The last time I touched the fuel door (before today) was last Thursday when my mom and I got gas together- and it‘s worked fine this entire week, so I know I didn‘t leave it unscrewed or damage it in any way. I haven‘t noticed that my gas has been getting used up any faster than normal, so I don‘t think it‘s leaking.Do I need to get to an auto repair shop ASAP? Can it wait a day? What‘s wrong with my car?
I'll take a jab at this and say the following: You're describing all sorts of weird symptoms. but what you should do is find a manual and see if the flashing of that particular light is ALSO indicative of any failure in your fuel delivery system. Now, I was going to go with something electrical, but when you mention that the vehicle stalled, that coupled with some fuel light being on -- you've just indicated that the vehicle is STARTING to experiment fuel delivery failure. I'm gonna go with 3 things: First check your fuel relay in the fuse box. From there, you might have to deal with your fuel filter. from there, your fuel pump. As that light MAY also be indicative of any of these three malfunctioning. The rumbling that you're hearing is likely your fuel pump kicking in and/or your computer coming on and off -- wild guess! You might have gotten bad gas in the car -- Or, a neighbor might have done you dirty, lmao :-). In any event, get your vehicle's manual to start with and see what else that light is associated with. Good luck!
Toyota dealer can find this problem as they've probably seen the problem b4. I wouldn't take this vehicle to just any old mechanic. It sounds electrical to me.
You can wait till you are sure that your fuel is low .
