Q: 2002 Frontier acceleration issues

asked by on June 07, 2016

My husband has a 2002 Frontier, which has a problem of not wanting to go over 65 and sometimes it won't go over 45 mph. When we push the gas, it doesn't move. When we let it off, it goes. Sounds like an EGR problem but no EGR.

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