How do I correct this? I did get gas 3days ago and the other I day I had the hood pop‘d when it was raining but i needed to to add ani-freeze (spelt wrong) b/c it was low but we go that fixed now.
Hay the misfire could be due to many things such as leads,spark plugs,distributer cap but unable to tell you why check engine light is on.
Sounds exactly like my camaro, it ended up being a blown head gasket, not fun. That would explain the antifreeze missing. The misfire could be because of that but hopefully not. It could be a bad fuel injector. Tkae it to a shop and ask them to run a diagnostic, they'll be able to diagnose it and clear the memory, then you'll be back to running new. But one question for you, has your car been overheating? If it has you could have a blown head gasket, What car you have?
It's worth removing and replacing the gas cap, because your ECM (engine control module) will detect a failure of your gas tank to partly pressurize by fuel vapors as a problem with your Evaporative Emissions System, and it will light the Check Engine Light (CEL) to let you know. But the mis-fire could be the cause of the CEL, instead. A mis-fire can cause a number of sensors that feed information to your ECM to go out of scale. And you might even have an ongoing problem that is making additional mis-fires more likely. If your car is newer than 1996, you can stop at any Autozone auto parts store, and ask them to read your car's OBD II port, and tell you the error codes your ECM is storing. Using those codes, they can tell you at least what your car's ECM thinks is wrong, and what parts might need to be replaced or checked.
