last month i noticed by the small amount of black smoke coming out of my exhaust that my car was running a little rich......

well, yesterday i cranked my car and it idled for about 4 minutes then huge amounts of black smoke started coming out and the car began to spit and sputter and went dead....it smelled like someone poured gasoline all around me it was so flooded out.

it would not crank after that..... unless i held it to the floor and it would crank for a second , spit and sputter with black smoke, then go dead.......

does anyone have a clue what this could be? or has had the same problem? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

 

I have had a similar problem to yours but mine usually happens when it rains hard. I don't know if it was raining when you were having the prob or not. I believe it has to do with the opti getting wet. This propably doesn't help much but i figured i would throw in .02.

 

yes the opti getting wet would explain the poor idle but the black smoke? i dunno. could be.

thanks for your input

 

If the opti was miss-firing, your engine would put off a lot of black smoke because of all the unburnt fuel.

 

Sounds like a bad opti. Mine still ran but barely. Very similar to what was going on with mine.

 

My car was doing the exact same thing about a year or so ago. The only way it would turn on was if I pressed on the gas. And it was wasting soooooooooo much gas it was unbelievable.
It turned out to be the fuel pressure regulator!
I replaced that along with cleaning my injectors..and ...ta-da, car ran like a champ again.

 

ok i''ll try that . thank you sooooo much