1998 chevy lumina 3.8 service engine light flashing

Asked by DAP87 Feb 02, 2020 at 10:33 PM about the 1998 Chevrolet Lumina

Question type: General

My service engine soon just started flashing
while i was driving it tonight and it started a
little rough. I dont have access to an OBD
scanner. Any ideas of what it might be and/or
what i could do to fix the problem?

2 Answers
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James answered 4 years ago

A flashing service engine soon light is warning you that the engine is misfiring and damaging the catalytic converter. Most likely a tune up will fix it. Hope that helps! Jim

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