Flashing Dashlight And Laboured Idling

[plodger]

Hi all, new to this forum and already needing a little advice

My wife's rav4 started playing up yesterday. The engine management light started flashing yellow and there was a sudden loss of power. On idle it dosen't run right, it's as though it's lost use of a cylinder by the feel of it. We've already changed two senors about 6 months ago and everything was running great until now.

Could someone advise me what to do please as we need to keep the cost down and a toyota dealer is out of the question, especially as my wife was treated like dirt the last time she visited for the sensor problem.

Plodger

[essexrav83]

Hi plodger....

Few questions...what year is it? Petrol/diesel?

I can't offer much help, but from reading various posts on here, people will need to know a bit more detail about the Rav to help...so may as well get that ball rolling for you.

Cheers

[plodger]

The rav4 is petrol 5 door GX year 2000 model.

Plodger

[plodger]

Forgot to add the oil on the dipstick smelt a bit burnt even though I changed the oil about 6 months ago

Any replies appreciated

Plodger

[anchorman]

Plodger.

You need to read the code stored in the ECU. There are plenty of posts showing you how to do it. We can then guide you what to do next

[plodger]

Thank you for that, I'll have a look tomorrow when my hangover goes :D