The car has about 170,000 miles on it...Its an automatic...I first noticed for a few months that, as you increased speed, it hesitated to shift into another gear...like as it would get up to what should've been shifting points in speed, I would have to let off the gas to get it to change...Then the last night I drove it home from work...it was doing that worse...all of a sudden it dropped power and wouldn't do over 40 mph...If I tried to accelerate it and make it go faster, it would cut out really bad...I pulled over lifted the hood while it was still running, and there is a noise like something rattling around in the top of the engine just under the valve pan...Any ideas on what might be wrong? Any help appreciated..Thanks.
Sep 6, 2007 at 6:40 PM