Hello,
I have been experiencing very rough accelerating (like it's running out of
gas?) for about a week now.  The car has 148K miles and starts flawlessly
and even runs pretty good at highway speeds with the cruise control on (not
perfect though).  But after about fifteen minutes the slightest acceleration
will cause it to "miss" (like a loose electrical connection) and it's
getting worse.  The dealer said that one of the coil packs was mis-firing
and replaced it.  This only made the condition worse(?!)
Now, the service manager says that "it could be that all of the coil packs
have gone bad" because each time they replace a known bad coil pack with a
good one another one is indicated as mis-firing by the ECM.  Service manager
says that "sometimes when one coil pack goes bad a chain reaction causes all
of them to fail".  $700.00 to repair. Youch!
Is there ay way to test each individual coil pack out of the car?
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for any help ahead of time.
Ted
antaltREMOVENOSPAM@bellsouth.net