My CEL came on last night and I checked the code when I got home and it's a P0171: Fuel System too Lean.
Is it OK to drive with this on? The dealership can't get me in until Monday.
The reason I am concerned is (and I posted this when it happened sorry it's long) about 4 months ago my fiancee and I were driving to my family's annual Labor Day get together on Sunday when I started to slow for a red light, when I went to accelerate again nothing happened, I continued to coast, the car was running, I had electrical power, but nothing happened when I hit the gas. I pulled over, put it in park, shut it off, restarted it and it ran for about 4 seconds and stalled again. I started it again, gunned it and it revved up but when it dropped back to low RPM's it stalled again. I figured it was a fuel system issue because my battery and alternator were fine.
I ended up having to use her AAA Plus and get it and us towed back 50 miles to the dealership where I bought it only 2 months earlier (Honda Certified with 24,473 miles on it, now at 28,889).
Anyway, after 2 days with no car the dealership pulled it in, and it stalled on them twice, so they saw the issue. After having it all day they said that it was a computer issue and that it was leaning out the fuel in the air to fuel ratio too much and not letting enough fuel into the engine. They said there was a software update and that this was one of the things that it would adjust, they test drove it and all is well and I picked it back up last night.
Any thoughts? Should I be concerned?
Thanks,
GSchmelt
Is it OK to drive with this on? The dealership can't get me in until Monday.
The reason I am concerned is (and I posted this when it happened sorry it's long) about 4 months ago my fiancee and I were driving to my family's annual Labor Day get together on Sunday when I started to slow for a red light, when I went to accelerate again nothing happened, I continued to coast, the car was running, I had electrical power, but nothing happened when I hit the gas. I pulled over, put it in park, shut it off, restarted it and it ran for about 4 seconds and stalled again. I started it again, gunned it and it revved up but when it dropped back to low RPM's it stalled again. I figured it was a fuel system issue because my battery and alternator were fine.
I ended up having to use her AAA Plus and get it and us towed back 50 miles to the dealership where I bought it only 2 months earlier (Honda Certified with 24,473 miles on it, now at 28,889).
Anyway, after 2 days with no car the dealership pulled it in, and it stalled on them twice, so they saw the issue. After having it all day they said that it was a computer issue and that it was leaning out the fuel in the air to fuel ratio too much and not letting enough fuel into the engine. They said there was a software update and that this was one of the things that it would adjust, they test drove it and all is well and I picked it back up last night.
Any thoughts? Should I be concerned?
Thanks,
GSchmelt