Sluggish and engine light came on.. What's up?

Asked by Guru339X1 Jul 18, 2020 at 11:33 PM about the 2016 Kia Optima EX

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Took my 2016 to the car wash and on the ways home my
engine light started flashing and it acked like it wanted to
die... I push my gas to the floor and my rpms show as if I'm
speeding up but my car don't speed up. Help please

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Get an OB2 sensor and tell us what code its sending out. If you go to a auto zone or anything like that they will tell you the code for free. From there we can get an idea from there. Right now youre saying its sluggish when giving gas. Could be air, timing, or fuel. Need to narrow it down.

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