just like the title says i took it in to have some work done and cruised home in it but i noticed when i went to take off it wasn't accelerating like it should it seems like its red lining to fast when im shifting gears, i called the shop and asked if they had timed it and they said no because there was no need. are they wrong? because it sure does feel like it.

 

any idea? does it sound like the timing is off?

 

No need to change timing if it's correct. The real question is if they checked it.

A performance decrease after a cap & rotor change means something is wrong.

 

like what though? im just irked because i was excited to get it back from the shop and now it has about as much acceleration as my 4 cylinder 88 ranger does.

 

and before it went it in to the shop it was just fine and took off like a champ

 

Im really interested to hear what comes out of this...I'm having some of the same symptoms in my car after new injectors, fuel filter, and thermostat. Although it was recently bought and not running well so it wasn't taking off like a champ to begin with.

 

It sounds to me like they probably got the firing order wrong...not much that you can screw up in a cap and rotor change other than that.

 

yeah i think so too im taking it back in this monday and tellin to check it or go drive it for themselves and see

 

Let us know the out come

 

well i just got back from driving it and when i go to stomp on it, it backfires when im accelerating. which it did not do before.

 

sounds like they got some wires mixed up....

 

yeah i hope so because i was really looking forward to driving my car this week instead of my girlfriends Intrepid lol.

 

i dropped it off and they grudgingly agreed to check it out so im just waiting to hear from them.

 

Any word what happened?

 

 

i got it back and said they rechecked everything and that i should run some injector cleaner through it. so i gonna a take it to another shop because they won't admit im right i told them that up intill me droppin it off at your shop if ran just fine and now since ive gotten it back it backfires on hard acceleration and it just aint kickin like it used too.

 

fuel injector cleaner isnt goint to help that... its really sad when shops like that dont own up to their mistakes..... this is why i do most of the work on my car.... no one is going to care more on your car than you... to shops its just money for them... the longer they keep it the more money is cost to fix it.. some people purposely do things so you can come back and dump more money to get it fixed...

 

It's most likely a spark plug wire mix up or timing. But i think it's the former. I had that issue when i had cracked wires and it felt like i was running on 4 cylinders and it felt like it had no power when i was flooring it. it also took forever to get to passing gear