Grungepup

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OK, so starting out from a light the engine will run fine through first gear. Shift to second around 5k-6k, 2nd starts ok but when i reach 6k there is no power. The car lunges foward but the rpms stay up and at this point the traction control light comes on and stays on. I shift to third, regain power and go.... no problems through the rest of the gears. The light stays on until the ignition is turned off. Once you turn the car back on, it is gone.

what are the possible problems?

fastlaneracing

Something with your MAF, dirty MAF, bad MAF, Air Leakage or some problems with harness.

Grungepup

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dealership just told me.... "the TC light is coming on because one wheel is spinning faster then the others, and at that the system will cut the fuel until the speeds equal out"

rx8cited

Are all tires / wheels the same size? Have you check the tire pressures?

Grungepup

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all tires have less the 3k on them.... just checked the pressure on sunday


i dunno, im going to get a second opinion..... maybe even hit up BHR for a new set of coils and wires

rx8cited

How many miles on the car? How many miles on the plugs and coils? IIRC, BHR suggests to resolve the problems with the car before putting in his coils/wires.

fastlaneracing

So your dealership means that you loosing traction? they must forgot that our cars dont have enough torqe to pull that stuff off.

Alot of BS.

Check all regarding MAF as said can also be bad connection to your battery.

Grungepup

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Car drives fine now..... Dont know what they did, its not detailed out on the work order. They even got rid of the "sand in a blender" noise.

shadycrew31

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You can try resetting your pcm next time.

anytime somethings off I reset that first thing to see if it fixes it.

MaD666MaX

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sorry for thread revival but same thing happens to me. my car did that for the 1st time. it started after i washed the car + engine detail. i found that the air pump was leaking, could it be the problem?

Mazurfer

^.....doubtful in my opinion. Think the air pump only works when car is first turned on to help heat up the exhaust for emissions. It's off after about 15 seconds.

MaD666MaX

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ok that's why it stopped bubbling after some time. can i leave it like that? will it cause some problems in the future?

anyway, went working with the car today. everything is fine, no more lights and pull strong

pksan123

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Sorry for the thread revival, but this morning on my way to work I was cruising in 6th gear with the cruise control on. I was going around 68mph when suddenly my traction control started flashing and then my vehicle had no power. I dropped my car to 3rd gear and kept it at high rpms for a few seconds then shift to 4th, and still no power in 4th gear. I dropped the car back to 3rd gear again then kept it at high rpms for longer then shifted back to 6th and everything started working again. Any idea why this happened? I recently just replaced my brake pads and I'm running on my extra set of rims because my regular set is getting new tires.

*update*
It was the extra set of rims with different tires on that triggered the incident.
It was reading different wheel speeds.

DebieGirl

Hello,
Had this happen to me this morning.
from home to FWY the car was fine.
Jumped on the freeway and when I hit 6k on 5th the traction control light flashes and RPMS started to fall. I shifted to 4th and again at 6k the light flashed and RPMS began to drop. I started to shift at 4K and kept it at 4K. I guess that was the sweet spot. Drove the rest of the way to work that was without incident.
Have any of you figured out the fix? I will check my tire pressure after work since it was mentioned above.

TeamRX8

iTrader: (25)

Assuming your wheels aren’t spinning then more than likely it’s not reading the wheel speeds correctly or there’s a malfunction with the ABS controller.

Did you try turning traction control off? What happens if you do turn it off?

most of the previous replies are misinformed and should be ignored.

DebieGirl

I was on the freeway when it flashed. It turned off once I was under 4.5k.

TeamRX8

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I understood you, but am more or less asking you to turn off TC, duplicate the same conditions, and report back what happened. In theory it should run fine, but let’s see.