'95 Dodge Neon

Oct 17, 2003 3 Replies
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My daughter has a '95 neon with approx 92,000 miles. She can drive for about 15 minutes then it starts misfiring. It loses power, slows, then after she pulls over it dies. It will usually start right back and previously she could continue driving for another ten or fifteen minutes. Now when it is refired it may not have enough power to take off. She said after it refires it sometimes idles high even though she doesn't have her foot on the gas. It will drive for a few minutes at a time but it will start jerking and lose power. I have read previous posts about neons that sound similar but I have not seen any definitive answers. Has anyone been successful solving this with their neon? She has not replaced the computer but she has changed several other parts.



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Don't know Neons specifically, but this sounds like a bad coil pack or ignition module..

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Very common to see carbon tracking on the outside of the sparkplug porcelain and inside of the sparkplug wire boot on these vehicles. Change the sparkplugs AND the wires at the same time, be sure to use di-electric paste on the inside of the boots. If you only change the plugs, the carbon tracked plugwire boots re-contaminate the new plugs very quickly, if you only change the wires, the carbon tracked sparkplugs re-contaminate the boots very quickly.

Use the correct part number Champion sparkplug and use a good quality wire set.

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