Thread: Car Chugging/Hesitation

alright iv had this car close to 3 years now and its been doing this chugging problem for as long as i can remember, it will chug and hesitate in the lower gears and seem to smooth out in high gears, ill hit the gas and it wont really go anywere it feels like im being tugged back and forth a bit, i have 2 videos, one video is the car chugging and the next one is the car after i restart it, (restarting the car fixes the problem all the time) now this mostly happens when its cold out or on a cold start, although it does seem to happen on warm starts too, also lets say im on the highway and i gun it for whatever reason, the car will very rarley just all of a sudden stops giving power for a second and then gives power again, can anyone shoot some ideas that might be wrong with it? NOTE: seafoamed the car and cleaned the MAF,

CHUGGING:

AFTER RESTART:

first vid is private

it is now fixed, should work now

not really seeing or hearing anything there. in either vid.

turn volume up lol, there is a night and day difference between both videos
EDIT: i know its not the best quality video but its somethin, if u listen closly you can hear the car bogging back and forth in the first video, 2nd theres none

I hear it for sure, almost sounds like the throttle is opening and closing 1% either way as you're accelerating.

ever have it scanned while its acting up? if that stops after a restart of the engine id think its tranny related, could have a stored code or pending code. dont shut the car off before scanning it, as it clearly resets its self when you start it back up.

i did get the tranny scanned, but not when the problem was happening and didnt throw any codes, if it is tranny related what could the chugging mean?

pcs/tcc solenoids, they are in the side cover.

my car did a chugging at 35 to 40 mph in 3 rd gear only at light throttle. 3 months later it just lost 3 rd gear. very uneventful failure too. just gone one day. im told the sprag gear failed or some crap. got a used tranny installed.

assuming thats the problem, will it be expensive fix?

to do your self? not to bad sensor price wise. under a 100 iirc. the job to get to them is no fun tho. at a shop im sure they would charge 3 to 400.

figured, yea ill have to get this scanned when it does it again, luckily the tranny shop wont charge for a scan, but as far as the loss of power when i floor it (doesnt do it often and i dont floor it all that often either) whats up with that?

well like i said it RARLEY does that, as far as chugging problem goes it does it like every 2 days or so, and i got around 82K

could be the clutch slipping, but i dont see how restarting the car fixes a slipping clutch but who knows, i got to get this scanned during the problem and see if it throws any codes during that time

if you got a junk yard near by, the icm is a quick cheap swap. never know.

Finally a thread about this.....I have been battling this as well in our 05 GT. The trans was worn so it was replaced with one from TEP, so I don't think it is trans related......maybe....idk. Subscribed for more info.