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Old 05-02-06, 10:40 AM
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Default Acceleration hesitation

I cant take off smoothly anymore. When I accelerate from a stop, the car does a bouncing, jerking type deal. Its as if its studdering when I give it gas. Im sure it could be caused by a lot of things (distributor, plugs/wires, idle air flow sensor...), but if someone has had this happen before, any ideas on what the problem may be would help me out a lot. Thanks in advance.
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I cant take off smoothly anymore. When I accelerate from a stop, the car does a bouncing, jerking type deal. Its as if its studdering when I give it gas. Im sure it could be caused by a lot of things (distributor, plugs/wires, idle air flow sensor...), but if someone has had this happen before, any ideas on what the problem may be would help me out a lot. Thanks in advance.

My first bet would be to check the spark plugs and the wires... had this happen to me before.. not on a lexus later found out that one of my sparkplug was not firing constantly... changed it and walaa... good luck buddy...
Old 05-03-06, 04:54 PM
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yeah check the plugs. one of my back ones was rubbed through. who knows how. but after 150k miles its bound to show some wear. I got some NGK and their are doing really well.
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