check engine light - lexus rx300

1999 LEXUS RX
299,900 MILES
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SWEETHART59
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lexus rx300 I just had the oil changed they told me i have 2 oil leaks b/c oil was leaking from the oil pan and the head gasket... maybe (i think) and it would cost 800 to be fixed. He also said that i MAY need a new timing belt.... He said i could drive it without these problems being fixed i would just have to keep putting oil in it so that is what i intended to do - however my car has almost 300,000 miles on it but it has been very well maintained however now - first it was the shaking when idle, then the check engine light came on. It drove fine once it was going but when ever i would stop it would ****. Then I was driving all of a sudden i heard a wierd noise and my Rpm's went up really fast and i was hardly even touching the gas.. then it stopped moving altogether so i sat idle for a few minutes and drifted into the parking lot where its still sitting.
Dec 10, 2010 at 1:03 AM
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MHPAUTOS
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What you need to do first is get it towed into a work shop and have a diagionstic scan done, this will give you all the unresolved fault codes in the engine management system, we then can work through the fault codes and sort this problem out.

mark (mhpautos)
Dec 10, 2010 at 2:07 AM
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