Q: lose in power

asked by on October 26, 2016

The car starts up fine but then the check engine light comes and after you reach 15 miles per hour oyou can feel a loss of power checked all my vacuum lines change out the spark plugs spark plug wires the fuel filter and still no difference went to the mechanic to get a diagnostic test done but he couldn't get a reading from it he told me that there was some chewed-up wire somewhere I don't know if that's true or not but I did check and could not find any do u have any suggestions

My car has 167856 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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