I had a problem with the CEL coming on here and there with my 98 Integra... we'd tighten it down and reset and it'd be fine for a while. Recently i had to have an emissions test done and they discovered it was a bad gas cap - the rubber seal was failing. Is this normal for a car that's relatively young? I've had older vehicles that didn't have that problem.
Thanks...
-Megan
"nntp.aioe.org" wrote in news:eg3qum$74c$ snipped-for-privacy@emma.aioe.org:
Very common these days.
Older vehicles may have had the problem but never let you know. The CEL is from the OBDII requirement to annoy - ahh, alert - you if the evaporative control has a fault. So before 1996 cars didn't let you know if your gas cap was bad while post-1996s do.
Note - dates generalized.
Mike
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