Stalling

Asked by GuruXH196 Oct 29, 2018 at 05:12 PM about the 2006 Hyundai Santa Fe

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 2006 Hyundai Santa FE. Today I put wiper fluid. power steering fluid and 2 quarts in. About an hour or so later I was driving to work, stopped at a red light when the car just stalled. All the lights on the dash board came on. I quickly threw it in park and restarted and drove off. A few minutes later I got onto the highway. I had the gas pedal completely to the floor and would not accelerate. I was able to pull off to the shoulder of the road, where I shut the car off for about 5 minutes then restarted, and was able to continue on to work with no trouble. I get off work in a few hours and I'm scared to death of what might happen on the way home. Anyone have any ideas or clues as to what may be going on??

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It might just be a coincidence that it runs terrible after servicing those things under the hood. If you have a check engine light then something is going on and you should have it scanned for problem codes. Sometimes on an older car a fuel pump or filter will act like that and set no codes. Need a pressure test or listen for fuel pump to prime up on start up. Drive it to repair shop if you can do so safely. Maybe save a towing fee. Have them look at it. May be nothing serious. (Fuel filter.)

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