Why does my car have sporadic acceleration?
I have a 2003 Honda Element 4 spd auto with almost 140,000 miles and sometimes I noticed whenever I get on the gas from a complete stop, I have to accelerate faster than normally to get up to speed but occasionally if I give it a little gas, the car picks up speed quickly and the transmission downshifts responsively?
I experienced this whenever I driving on a COMPLETELY FLAT road with no small hills or any other steep grade.
Why does my car act like this? What could be the cause? The only thing I had a mechanic at pepboys tell me was that I need a 3 step fuel service cleaning, and after that bc I have a check engine light that reads a faulty o2 sensor I need a new set of spark plugs. This does not make sense bc I use iridium NGK plugs and they should last me for a long time. It was replaced around 95,000 miles. I changed the air filter. I'm suspecting the fuel filter might be a cause however my particular Honda model only sells the entire fuel pump system.
Do you know what your O2 sensor does?
Do you know what happens when it provides bad data to your ECU?
I've answered this same question about a dozen times. It is like trying to put out a forest fire with a spoon. Might have also fried/clogged your cat as well.
Stop spamming and fix your brick.
Why don't you simply have your O2 sensor problem dealt with, rather than keep dreaming up imaginary other faults? You've been told this many times, enough is enough.
Hey dude… Did you get your valves adjusted yet?
It's a damn Element. It's not a race car so just drive the SOB.
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