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Yeah, probably. Something along those lines anyways....

My 1999 Mazda 626 recently developed a problem last night, and I'm trying to figure out the issue. While driving, the car started shaking horribly (and it does the same sitting still at idle). The check engine is on, and starts flashing constantly. When the car goes to shift (I believe its into 3rd gear...hard to tell with the shaking and an auto transmission), it will get to 3000rpm, act like its going to shift, jump to 3500rpm, then one more small jump of about 250rpm and then finally shifts. To shift out of other gears, the car has to be around 4000/5000rpm before it will do anything. (It also quickly ramps up to those rpms as well) I have to push the pedal to the floor in order to get it to "granny accelerate", as I like to describe it. When going up hills, the car will be at 3000rpm and still loses speed. Any help would be appreciated, and if you have any specific questions in order to help diagnose this, I'll be checking this constantly. I had the serpentine belt replaced today, as it was going bad and to see if it was causing the issue, and the oil changed (only 100 miles over its due mileage). The car has 159k miles on it. Thanks guys.

See...slow ones FTW lol. No it was a great time...suprisingly the first track day that I've made it to...oh well. I'll go watch more, and maybe when more money...a new car...or a new car with money to do more with the contour come along...it will be more fun! lol

How about the 17.3 for my Contour lol. Had to give some comic relief at some point in the day!

I personally think it is sooo stupid how people always bash the Big 10 and say that they "can't keep up with the speed of the SEC" . The Big 10 isn't the way it used to be....they have just as fast of players as anyone else in the country...so yeah. Also...if the SEC is sooooooo great....why do their final scores often combine to like 70,80,90,or 100 points. Can we say no defense? LSU will be in for a big surprise when they play a team that has such a powerful defense as OSU. Also, their defense will have their hands full with a deep Ohio State roster that can show many different schemes. OH YEAH....OSU can also play smashmouth football right up the middle. The little prissy spread teams of the SEC don't see a lot of this.....they all like to run to the outside cuz theyre afraid to get bruises. OSU all the way

I'll agree with the statement on Oklahoma bein a little scary. Their offense is powerful and their defense is good. The only problem is that their defense will have a hard time shutting down the several threats that Ohio State has to offer on offense. They seem to get into a groove defending agains the pass....but then they do horrible against the run, and VV....soooo.....how can they deal with the Buckeyes' deep roster and ability to jump back and forth in their flow of the game. Not to mention Oklahoma's offense is powerful, but have they faced the defense OSU will bring to the board? I think not. No conference plays defense the way that the Big 10 does.

I agree with Oklahoma being in the championship, and not LSU. I personally believe OSU would be able to take the Tigers offense down, due to the fact it will be one of the strongest defenses LSU will have faced all year. Oklahoma, as we just said, proved that they can beat a #1 team, LSU hasn't, so why shouldn't Oklahoma have another chance. LSU moved up in ranking by barely beating #14, while Oklahoma beat the #1 team easily. In my opinion the BCS is retarded and they need a new system. They are the ones that messed up and put Georgia in 4th, raising their hopes, when it made no sense. Anyways....I vote OSU vs. Oklahoma or Kansas for the honest truth, as Kansas has been more impressive than LSU all year anyways.

Heres the AP Top 5 as of today. 1. Ohio State (50) 11-1 1,578 2. LSU (11) 11-2 1,519 3. Oklahoma (1) 11-2 1,423 4. Georgia (1) 10-2 1,421 5. Virginia Tech (1) 11-2 1,380 6. USC 10-2 1,346 7. Missouri 11-2 1,195 8. Kansas 11-1 1,164 9. Florida 9-3 1,071 10. Hawaii (1) 12-0 1,050 Looks like a tossup between LSU and Oklahoma

Yeah....lol...I now see why you hate it when we take it to Jeff's....I've wanted to have you fix it but you know how dad is impatient. Thanks for the help Derek, of course. I'm going to have a new intake bought for it here in the next week or so....so I'll keep you updated.

Problem has been fixed. We found a broken vacuum hose, guessing it happened accidentally when the shop had the car for a few days...Thanks for the help though.

Hahaha whats up Dave? Lol...I didn't pay attention either

Lol thats funny that you mentioned Derek....he's my brother in law...I was just seeing if anyone on here had any ideas because I didn't have time to call him after he got off work tonight, but I'm calling him tomorrow

This is a '99 Contour non SVT V6 Auto When the car sits idle, even when the temperatures are not cold, and when the engine temperature is right where it should be, the car continuously revs up to 3000+ RPM when sitting idle, no matter if it is in park or in Drive. Then whenever I try to slow down the car wants to jump forward, almost as if its not shifting down correctly. (I really don't know much about cars so don't make fun of me if I'm wrong lol). The car also will idle down around 500 RPM when it has always idled around 1000, and you can tell when its at 500 that it is not running correctly, because the exhaust and everything else don't sound right. The car also has a tendency to die on the first couple starts, and once again this is not always when it is cold. It was around 48 degrees the other day and it didn't Any feedback would be great, as the garage I took it to obviously can't seem to find the problem. HELP PLEASE!!!

This is just a little 1 minute video of my 1999 Ford Contour SE http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8215538947096466094