Was driving to school this morning. Car drove relatively fine for 3/4 of the way...after about 30 mins the following stuff happens:
From a red light or dead stop I can accelerate only while barely pushing the gas pedal...this takes me a very long time to reach any significant speed.
When I attempt to give it some gas i notice the car hesitates and will not accelerate, the engine goes no faster, it feels like its gonna die. I can hear the transmission shift from first to second to third gear and no matter which gear its in, no matter if its OD or D, when I give it gas the car hesitates and won't go. I have to work up to speed very very slowly. Sometimes the car actually responds and speeds up as I am backing off the accelerator.
This doesn't sound like a trans problem, and it came on mid drive. I am thinking either an injector went out, a sensor went bad (especially the TPS), or I have a fuel delivery problem. Could also be a vacuum leak but what would get vacuum only in Drive and not in Park? Idles smooth as glass. The tank is 3/4 full.
Also when in park I can rev the engine and there is no hesitation or problem...although recently there has been a metal on metal sound. Not like pistons or anything important like a loose thin metal plate vibrating somewhere. It rattles as i let off the gas pedal and seems to be affected by rpms. Nope there is no catalytic heat shields and the exhaust manifold heat riser plates are both gone. Noise is coming from the engine bay.
I am about to give up on this POS car...it has been nothing but problems recently. Someone, anyone please give some insight here. Its pouring out and i have no garage so I haven't explored anything yet.
From a red light or dead stop I can accelerate only while barely pushing the gas pedal...this takes me a very long time to reach any significant speed.
When I attempt to give it some gas i notice the car hesitates and will not accelerate, the engine goes no faster, it feels like its gonna die. I can hear the transmission shift from first to second to third gear and no matter which gear its in, no matter if its OD or D, when I give it gas the car hesitates and won't go. I have to work up to speed very very slowly. Sometimes the car actually responds and speeds up as I am backing off the accelerator.
This doesn't sound like a trans problem, and it came on mid drive. I am thinking either an injector went out, a sensor went bad (especially the TPS), or I have a fuel delivery problem. Could also be a vacuum leak but what would get vacuum only in Drive and not in Park? Idles smooth as glass. The tank is 3/4 full.
Also when in park I can rev the engine and there is no hesitation or problem...although recently there has been a metal on metal sound. Not like pistons or anything important like a loose thin metal plate vibrating somewhere. It rattles as i let off the gas pedal and seems to be affected by rpms. Nope there is no catalytic heat shields and the exhaust manifold heat riser plates are both gone. Noise is coming from the engine bay.
I am about to give up on this POS car...it has been nothing but problems recently. Someone, anyone please give some insight here. Its pouring out and i have no garage so I haven't explored anything yet.
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