a flashing check engine light means "catalyst damaging misfire!" there is raw gas going into the cat. get it on a scanner asap, and fix the misfire. then run a cat check (drive cycle, and look at the cat flag in I/M readiness screen). if it passes, you got lucky!

It may be ugly, but it sure is slow.

Girls comb their hair in rear view mirrors and the boys try to look so hard....