Vehicle hesitation, does this sound like its caused by watered down fuel or another problem?

Posted by admin on Aug 20th

ok so for the past few days while driving my 02 trans am I have noticed that I’d be stepping on the gas and all of a sudden i would feel a sudden loss of power, kind of like te car was chugging along for a bit, then the horsepower would kick in, also to add in within the last 2 months I’ve heard while idling, I’ve heard a rattling sound in the exhaust, now does anyone have any idea what this may be, because tonight while I was driving i had the same sudden loss in power, while driving i felt the power loss so i pushed the gas in harder and noticed that the car was still slowing down so i down shifted to 1st gear then stepped on the gas again and all of a sudden the power was back, does this sound like a case of gas that has too much water in it or could this be something much more serious.?

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4 Responses to “Vehicle hesitation, does this sound like its caused by watered down fuel or another problem?”

Aug 20th at 12:19 am By: cragiebaby

Sounds like it could be the air pressure sensor or lamda sensor as both of these would cause the vehicle to loose power, otherwise it would be a 100 other things!.
My suggestion if you get your vehicle tested and any fault codes read.

Aug 20th at 1:03 am By: ctjag8

Depends on the car’s mileage, but I’m guessing it might be quite high after 7 years. I once had a “running into a wall of marshmallow” kind of feeling in an old Golf. It was burned valves.
The same feeling in a BMW I had, turned out to be faulty fuel injectors.
The rattling in the exhaust could be an pre-ignition kind of noise caused by excess heat from bad valves, or it could just be a loose baffle in the exhaust.
Have your auto mechanic check fuel delivery and do a compression test and take it from there.

Aug 20th at 1:48 am By: clive

more than likely your catalitic converter.ive seen it happen a ton of times. when they start to burn out they start breaking up inside.pieces of it will rattle around in there and block of your exhaust.some times theyll get wedged in 1 spot and stop rattling for days untill sum1 gets on it and blows them loose again.lol. there pretty expensive but if u dont have emissions control testing were u live u can take it off and knock all the stuff out of them.but if u get caught hollowing them out its a 5000 dollar fine.but they have to catch u in the act.lol good luck

Aug 20th at 2:03 am By: kelly_f_1999

try a bottle of fuel treatment two bucks
replace spark plugs 3 bucks each

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