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alero_ecotec · 05-16-2006, 12:32 AM

Alright, I'm looking into this for a friend who has a 2.4 . Here's the story, she drove to work, was running fine, no problems. Ran inside and was back out to her car in about 5 minutes. Started it up and started to drive and found that the car was drastically underpowered, only going 30 MPH with it floored. She said the RPM's were also going crazy while she was flooring it. Her dad advised her to go as far as she could and about 200 years later the steering wheel locked up on her. She stoped for a while, started again, steering was fine but still had the drastic loss of power. It's a 99 (actually a grand am, but same car) with 66 thousand on it. If you guys have any ideas let me know because I'm at a loss here. I thought maybe a spark plug at first but i think it might be something more major because there would have to be more than one spark plug bad to only go 30, and for more than one spark plug to go at the same time at only 66k i dont think is very probable. Let me know.

05-16-2006, 12:32 AM	#1
alero_ecotec Special Agent Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 671	Alright, I'm looking into this for a friend who has a 2.4 . Here's the story, she drove to work, was running fine, no problems. Ran inside and was back out to her car in about 5 minutes. Started it up and started to drive and found that the car was drastically underpowered, only going 30 MPH with it floored. She said the RPM's were also going crazy while she was flooring it. Her dad advised her to go as far as she could and about 200 years later the steering wheel locked up on her. She stoped for a while, started again, steering was fine but still had the drastic loss of power. It's a 99 (actually a grand am, but same car) with 66 thousand on it. If you guys have any ideas let me know because I'm at a loss here. I thought maybe a spark plug at first but i think it might be something more major because there would have to be more than one spark plug bad to only go 30, and for more than one spark plug to go at the same time at only 66k i dont think is very probable. Let me know. __________________ THE Ohio State University!