Q: 2010 camaro lack in power when going over 60mph and engine shakes when accelerating
so I was driving my car kind of uphill when all of the sudden the angine started to shake avbit something unusuall and when accelerating it will shake more and i can frel lack in power.after that the check engine light came out and about 3 ir 4min. driving with it on started to blink so i parked on the firsr exit i saw and turned off my car. i checked the engine to fine any licking or dmome a d tbere was nothing. so i decided to turn it back on and accelared to about 4 rpms and it was respondidng it almost seem like the car only had lack in power wgen going about 60 mph. i will have the check engine cide read and maybe know with exatitude what it has please any idea?
My car has 62000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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