What might cause hesitation/misfire when cruising?
As title states.
Recently (2 weeks or so) my car has started to hesitate when cruising and when shifting early, such as putting it in 5th at 25mph (just under 1500rpm). I don't notice a hesitation when the engine is more highly loaded and at higher rpm and it still idles fine.
Sometimes when engine braking the fuel doesn't stay cut off, it occasionally fires a few times.
I don't have any engine codes, and it sounds fine even when hesitating, I don't hear predetonation.
Temperatures aren't unreasonably cold here in Florida right now and I haven't done anything under the hood lately other than tighten some bolts in the suspension.
I put in new plugs and wires about a year ago, I want to say they were "30k mile" plugs and I'm at less than half of that right now. The distributor is less than a year old and still looks like it was just pulled out of the box. My O2 sensor's age is unknown but I've had the car for 2 years and out about 35k mills on it. Gas mileage is fine overall. I recently set a trip record but my tank averages seem a bit low lately.
I'm considering putting some fuel system cleaner in with the next tank in case the injectors are dirty, and changing the plugs. What else should I check?
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