Does Your Car Jerk? Check This!

A jerking car when starting, accelerating, and driving really has a serious issue. When this happens, your check engine light might come on to warn you of possible problems on your car. But what seems to be the big deal when your car is jerking while driving?
Experts and professionals on automotive vehicles suggest that there is a big possibility that your car may suffer from certain issues which need to be addressed the moment you experienced jerking on your car while you are driving. And there are plenty of these issues. We shall tackle here the various causes on why your car jerks, especially when you are in the middle of the road, and we hope to find the answers before we end this article.

What is the difference between jerking and abnormal sounds?
 
Possible reasons your car jerks
Bad spark plug
 Worn out acceleration cable
Moisture build-up in the distributor cap
Faulty throttle position
Dirty injectors

 
To give you an idea of what jerking on car means, we differentiate it with the unusual sounds or noises (like grinding and humming) you sometimes hear from your car that can also mean mechanical problems on the vehicle. Jerking is more on the sense of feeling, like a person who has a seizure, while sounds and noises are heard. When your car jerks, you will experience a feeling of intermittent vibrations in rapid succession.
Jerking is more like you are gasping for breath that stops suddenly and may be followed by the same pattern in short burst. When your car jerks while you are driving at high-speed, there is a tendency that you stop or slows down abruptly without any warning. In other words, a jerking is an uncontrollable shaking that may start as slow vibrations then become more intense and violent over time.
This is very dangerous and may cause an accident that might result in injury, damage to properties, and worst, death. So, try to fix the problem as early as possible. You can read here some of the reasons on why your car shakes when you drive.

Bad spark plug


 

Worn out acceleration cable

 

Dirty injectors

 

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