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Hellooo Guys, Its been some time since I have posted a problem. My friend has a Elantra 2000 model and its has not been in a good running condition since i have known. Its milage is somewhat lower than usual. He is not much of a car guy and he has been taking it to every one suggested anything and spent heaps and still having the problems. Hope you guys will have some answers on this. I am really keen to help him on this. Ok. Here is the problem. 1) It has a starting problem. in Cold start first time starts for a second and stalls. Then second time it starts fine. 2) there is a vibration after starting and in few seconds it somes to a decent idle state. 3) The big problem started yesterday when it was drving fine but suddenly stopped. It was hard to start. Even when started there is a huge shake and sounds like its working on 3 cylinders. There is a major loss in power also. Hear indicator is normal but the interior keeps up heating (I do not know if this is related to the latter problem). 4) In the above case the RPM rarely go above 2000 and the "Check Engine" light keeps flashing. Can you guys please give me an idea to start with this ??? Thanx......