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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 03:11 PM
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What is wrong with my car?

Well, lately my car has been acting up. When it is cold, it runs fine, starts up as soon as i turn the key, pulls hard in all gears etc., but when i drive it for a while and it gets warm, it turns to crap. It hesitates and ALWAYS bogs when i try to get moving in first from a stop, it doesnt want to start when i turn it off and then try to start it up again, i have to pump the gas pedal a few times while turning it over before it finally cranks. Its really starting to **** me off, and i dont know what it is. I dont know what code its throwing, but when i am in 5th cruising along at 1400 or so the CEL comes on, but the driveability doesnt change. Hell when the motor is warm, it wont even light up the tires in first gear.

And i have the fans hooked to a toggle switch, and to top it all off, ive blown 5 switches in the past two days. At $3 dollars a peice, I'm officially spending more money on fan switches than i am gas, and i get 12mpg city and 17mpg highway, and highway is cruising along in 6th for 150 miles at a time going 70 at the most.

Sorry for the rant, but im REALLY pissed off at this peice of **** GM right now.
Old Mar 24, 2004 | 03:52 PM
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yea...no other 10 year old car would have a normal problem such as this...damn GM
Old Mar 24, 2004 | 04:04 PM
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first thing i would do is look into whats frying the switches. it really will be slow if it goes up in flames.
it could be a lot of things but start by getting it scanned, then post which code/codes it has.
Old Mar 24, 2004 | 05:05 PM
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Originally posted by blackbirdta
yea...no other 10 year old car would have a normal problem such as this...damn GM
Yeah but my 14 year old Ford never did stuff like this

Dont get me wrong, overall I still like this car, but the little **** it does bugs the hell out of me. And if hesitating when its warm and losing power is normal, then i guess i SHOULDNT have bought this car.

Seriously though, anyone have any ideas? I think that i fixed the switch problem by not putting in a cheap *** peice of **** switch from a auto parts store and putting in a heavy duty electrical switch. I tried going to auto zone but they said that they couldnt scan my car because its a 94 (total crock). I guess ill just wait and save up for a scan-master. It's probably something stupid like my o2 sensors and im just freaking out about it, but i tend to do that when stuff that isnt supposed to happen happens.
Old Mar 24, 2004 | 06:29 PM
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I had similar symptoms, and the opti was a problem...maybe yours is going to die soon???
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 07:40 PM
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Originally posted by scyzoryk
I had similar symptoms, and the opti was a problem...maybe yours is going to die soon???
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