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Losing power during acceleration

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33K views 9 replies 8 participants last post by  annstewart1972  
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A little background: this has happened to me twice in the past week. Driving on the highway, I will press the accelerator to the floor in order to pass someone. All of a sudden, the engine will lose power, and I start to slow down, but then quickly regains some power, loses power, gains power, etc.

After this happens, the check engine light comes on, as well as a message telling me to service traction control and stabilitrack. The car seems to run fine as long as I don't depress the gas pedal to the floor. When I turn the car off, the engine light goes away, as well as the traction control and stabilitrack warnings, and don't reappear until the problem happens again.

Any ideas before I bring it to the dealer?
 
Discussion starter · #4 ·
Thanks guys. I've been trying to reproduce the problem the past couple days with no luck. If it happens again I'll run over to my autozone and have them scan for the code.