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#1 of 3 Sluggish Acceleration up hill. by ironcity1933 Jun 29, 2009 (12:10 pm)
I have a 1999 Plymouth neon with 38,883miles, I just recently purchased, it runs perfect except up hills it takes a little to get up to speed if it ever does IE when driving on a 40mph road after a red light it only got up to 35 until I get on a down grade, when it is on flat it runs perfect gets up to 65 fine on the highway, any suggestions on how I could fix this, I changed oil, spark plugs, brakes, air filter and added fuel injector cleaner, the only thing I am waiting for is for my spark plug wires to come in. Please offer any suggestions on what I could do Replies to this message: mncarguy2 (Jul 08, 2009 4:02 am) ironcity1933 (Jul 08, 2009 4:48 am)
#2 of 3 Re: Sluggish Acceleration up hill. [ironcity1933] by mncarguy2 Jul 08, 2009 (4:02 am)
Replying to: ironcity1933 (Jun 29, 2009 12:10 pm) I have the same car. I also just recently purchased mine as well. All of your fixes fall under routine maintainance. I noticed this problem as well. Really what it boils down to is that this particular car lacks that umph that your probably used to. When you run into a hill I suggest turning the ac off and downshifting. One thing you could do is get the engine more air with a cold air/ short ram air intake. I'm going to try this myself. If you notice the air intake just kinda sits over the block and opens up in front of the radiator shroud, not particularly good air flow. Replies to this message: ironcity1933 (Jul 08, 2009 4:48 am)
#3 of 3 Re: Sluggish Acceleration up hill. [mncarguy2] by ironcity1933 Jul 08, 2009 (4:48 am)
Replying to: mncarguy2 (Jul 08, 2009 4:02 am) They definately fall under routing matinence, but I had my mechanic change my fuel filter and it improved a lot maybe try checking that.

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