Car jerking

BVALDEZ

MEMBER
2016 DODGE CHARGER
V6
4WD
AUTOMATIC
42,000 MILES

My car was driving perfectly fine I got to work and went to lunch and it was normal. At the end of the day I was driving home and I stopped at a light and my car jerked like if someone hit me from behind. I looked and no one was behind me. A few seconds later it did it again. Then when I was accelerating it jerked the same way just various times. My check engine light did not come on. So this morning I am driving and as I was accelerating the light finally came on but went back off. Any idea what this could be? I noticed when the AC is on it does it more frequent, but when it is off it is not as frequent. But, I do not think it has anything to do with the AC.

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ASEMASTER6371

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Good morning.

I would start by having the code read by a parts store. It is a free service. Then I can narrow the area of failure for this.

It sounds like a fuel delivery issue.

Roy

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Thursday, September 13th, 2018 AT 8:41 AM

BVALDEZ

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Will it code even if the lights not on anymore? Also, when this happened my gas was almost low I had 50 miles left then it was fluctuating from 40 to 34 it stayed at 34 for a quite sometime finally went down to 31 and back to 34. Then the gas light finally went on. I put in a little more than half a tank and I noticed it was not doing it as much but after a while it started more frequent. The only difference that the car has experienced is that it was parked at a slant in the parking garage. Usually I get a good space so it is level but I had no choice, but I do not know if that would affect anything.

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Thursday, September 13th, 2018 AT 8:53 AM

RENEE L

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Hello BVALDEZ,

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Once you have the codes please get back to us so that we can further assist you.

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Thursday, September 13th, 2018 AT 4:50 PM