skipping, kinda sluggish sometimes
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skipping, kinda sluggish sometimes ok its kind of hard to explain, but sometimes i will be easing into the throttle and i can feel the car kind of lug, or it seems like it runs on 7 and a 1/2 cylinders lol, its not a horrible loss of power but i can feel it...now to the skip, every now and then whenever i give it maybe 1/2 to 3/4 throttle it will skip sometimes, enough to jerk you in the car....the plugs are brand new, and i run premium gas...could it possibly be the plug wires?
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well depending on the miles a new set of wires are probly a good idea.
Did the car throw the SES code? Check out your MAF and cleen it too (crc maf cleener)
what kind of plugs did you get . Also might be time for a fuel filter.
But first thing I'd probly check is that all the plug wires were all connected good.
Did the car throw the SES code? Check out your MAF and cleen it too (crc maf cleener)
what kind of plugs did you get . Also might be time for a fuel filter.
But first thing I'd probly check is that all the plug wires were all connected good.
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Ive already seafoamed it about 2 weeks ago, the plugs are NGK TR55, i put a brand new fuel filter on when i bought it, when i seafoamed it the MAF looked good and clean, the SES light never came on either....car has 108k miles on it but its been rebuilt about 20k miles ago
I recently replied to a similar post on here, and I'll give the same answer to this one. I've had the same problem with the partial-throttle skipping. I went to the auto parts store and got me a bottle of STP "Jet Fuel." All I have to say is I haven't had the same problem since I dumped that little bottle of magic into my tank. To this day I still don't know what the problem was...dirty injectors or valves maybe? That's what the bottle says it cleans...so 
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