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I am having an “intermittent hesitation/loss of power then pop/surge back to power” problem. Usually with no warning (but sometimes with a small warning as the car sort of slightly begins to hesitate) it will then simply lose drive power for a very short period of time (1-3 seconds?) and then power immediately resumes. When it resumes, it comes back with a sort of “pop” that seems to me to be best described as the feeling you get when you pop the clutch. It’s a sudden lurch forward. Giving it some gas seems to help bring on the recovery, but I have no idea if doing that is connected to the recovery or not. This started Thursday morning of last week, and happened 3 times on my 20 mile drive to work. Each was late in the drive, so the car was warmed up. Then it happened 2 or 3 times on my drive home that night, but this time within the first 3-4 miles, then never again. It happens in all conditions—3d gear, 4th gear, going up a slight incline, going straight, going downhill. Come to think of it, one time I got the surge when I had the car out of gear and was braking—maybe around 20 MPH? When it happened I was coasting, I got the idle “ding dong” sound I mentioned above, but the tachometer was still up around 2000 RPM. The car recovered before I came to a stop and I was able to keep driving. This is in addition to the “hesitation” incident I mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
This morning, the car had the stutter/power failure/then surge/pop problem several times. It all started after a good amount of driving—about 15 miles. The car did the “stutter/no power for a second/pop back into power” in the following situations: 2 times at 35-45 MPH in 4th gear; 1x accelerating in 3d gear; 2x shifting from 3d to 4th gear.
Then the really bad incident happened. I was stopped at an intersection and the car just stalled. Dash lights came on. I started the car back up immediately and thought it was fine until I tried to engage the clutch in 1st gear, when it flat out stalled again (dash lights on). This time, the car seriously fought me to restart. After what felt like nearly a solid minute (who knows how long it really was), it did restart, and this time it drove fine until I got to work. It fought me long enough that I seriously wondered if it was ever going to restart. This happened at the approximately 18 mile mark of my drive, and the rest of my drive was about 2 miles during which I had no problems.
Our mechanic suggested that it might be the EGR valve, whatever that is. Some sort of emissions/gas regulatory valve—something to do with the exhaust system.
Help!
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