Q: Acceleration problems

asked by on July 29, 2017

I have a pontiac grand am gt 2002 and my car has problems accelerating sometimes and also it doesnt want to keep accelerating/change gears I changed the air filter, cleaned the mass air flow sensor, and got a new catalytic converter it didnt seem to help.

My car has 129763 miles.

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