Engine problems

1996 Mitsubishi Carisma Automatic
Car: Mitsubishi Carisma
Year: 1996
Variant: Automatic
Categories: Running Rough, Starting & Power Loss
when car engine is running in neutral its ok revs up fine, put it in drive or reverse and start accelerating and exhaust starts popping and revs drop from 4000 to 1000 with pedal flat to floor after 2 seconds it goes back up after 2 seconds goes back down causing a jolting motion at 20mph cannot go faster, popping noises are constant sometimes the car won't accelerate at all and stalls often. same in reverse, the car drove 4 miles and failed to drive altogether just popping and jolting. managed to reverse out of bus stop into sainsbury's car park about 60 metres with trouble and put back in drive, car paced forward suddenly and parked it up. burning smell coming from car. not driveable and also ball joints are rattling a while before this and mot due end of month its an automatic not manual
Problem added: Aug 7, 2011 (12 years ago)
also i would like to say we were driving home and before all this happened the car stalled and thought it was out of fuel as the guage does not work, we got £10 of fuel in and it would not start at all, must have turned the key 40 - 50 that night and not sure if it had an effect on the engine as smell started to emerge so left it overnight and the scenario previously explained was after we went back to get the car
Answered Aug 7, 2011 (12 years ago)
Are you sure that you put the correct fuel in car.. If you did then you may have sucked up some dirt from the bottom of fuel tank into the fuel system...
Answered Aug 7, 2011 (12 years ago)

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