Random Hesitation
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Random Hesitation
I am new in here, I am trying to help out my sister who owns a ML 320 1998 with around 120K miles.
The other day she was in the HWY, she pulled over to check something for a couple of minutes, when she got back in to the hwy the ML started to hesitate, she pressed the gas pedal all the way down and the feeling was as she was running out of gas she pulled over switched to Neutral still the feeling was the same she went back to the hwy running like that and suddenly the vehicle started running normal, then later came back with the same hesitation, it would go off for a while then come back.
She made it home, My dad was able to replicate the problem after taking off in a light he got that hesitation for no particular reason later then went back to normal.
Anyone has idea of what could be wrong? Is it expensive to fix?
I really appreciate your input on this one..
Thanks
Ed
The other day she was in the HWY, she pulled over to check something for a couple of minutes, when she got back in to the hwy the ML started to hesitate, she pressed the gas pedal all the way down and the feeling was as she was running out of gas she pulled over switched to Neutral still the feeling was the same she went back to the hwy running like that and suddenly the vehicle started running normal, then later came back with the same hesitation, it would go off for a while then come back.
She made it home, My dad was able to replicate the problem after taking off in a light he got that hesitation for no particular reason later then went back to normal.
Anyone has idea of what could be wrong? Is it expensive to fix?
I really appreciate your input on this one..
Thanks
Ed
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Originally Posted by totinsky
I am new in here, I am trying to help out my sister who owns a ML 320 1998 with around 120K miles.
The other day she was in the HWY, she pulled over to check something for a couple of minutes, when she got back in to the hwy the ML started to hesitate, she pressed the gas pedal all the way down and the feeling was as she was running out of gas she pulled over switched to Neutral still the feeling was the same she went back to the hwy running like that and suddenly the vehicle started running normal, then later came back with the same hesitation, it would go off for a while then come back.
She made it home, My dad was able to replicate the problem after taking off in a light he got that hesitation for no particular reason later then went back to normal.
Anyone has idea of what could be wrong? Is it expensive to fix?
I really appreciate your input on this one..
Thanks
Ed
The other day she was in the HWY, she pulled over to check something for a couple of minutes, when she got back in to the hwy the ML started to hesitate, she pressed the gas pedal all the way down and the feeling was as she was running out of gas she pulled over switched to Neutral still the feeling was the same she went back to the hwy running like that and suddenly the vehicle started running normal, then later came back with the same hesitation, it would go off for a while then come back.
She made it home, My dad was able to replicate the problem after taking off in a light he got that hesitation for no particular reason later then went back to normal.
Anyone has idea of what could be wrong? Is it expensive to fix?
I really appreciate your input on this one..
Thanks
Ed
