My car's problem appears when trying to cross the street and accelerating. It chokes, and I need to release the accelerator for it to gain strenght. I've changed it to Neutral, accelerated it and revolutions reach 2500 per minute. At higher revs, it starts choking and won't go up. It has also got starting problems: it is sometimes hard to make it, and only after 4 seconds of starting it, it will turn on.
Hi, the same happened to me and I was told it was an engine's protection and so it did not go above 2500 rpm in order not to damage itself. I also felt my car rather slow and solved it by changing the crankshaft and camshaft sensors. Good luck.
I own a pt cuiser 2.0 ecc 2001, and would appreciate any information you could share with me about my car's failures. After changing the gasket, cylinder head and bent valves, it started presenting many sensors' failures : camshaft, oxygen, acceleration and MAP. The engine apparently starts properly when in dead center, it accelerates properly but, when changing to either D or R, the engine chokes and loses power, and even stalls. I would like to know if the problem is in the sensors, in the electronic control unit or in the gearbox. Thank you!