I have a 99 hyundai accent GL 4door automatic transmission...whenever we get a steady rain or hard rain for a day or more the next time i use my car the check engine light comes on shortly after i will be driving down the road..at first it will flash just a few times and then will stay steady...it might be like this for several days depending on the weather or how much i drive the vehicle but i know it won?t go out until something is completely dry it seems..maybe a couple of dry weather days etc...then it might not come on for weeks or months..the car has 136000 miles and i have owned it since july 04 when it had about 65000 miles..i have put a new timing belt a few miles after i bought it..the car for the most part runs good except when this happens..even though it has been doing this for several years now i have never taken it to a garage because either i did not want to pay a garages diagnostic fee or when i wanted to stop in the check engine light was not on...now its spring time and we usually get alot of rain and would finally like to find out why this light comes on and why it sputters at first when the check engine light is flashing....does anyone know how to get the codes and what they actually mean?i have read on some of these sites people say places like autozone or advance autoparts will do a free test for the check engine light...is that true?i hope i can get some feedback on here.
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11 years ago