Hi all. I've gone all the way back to January looking for solutions but have not found any, and I do not recall reading about these problems up to late last year, when I frequented the site almost daily.
By the way, I own a 99 v6 ATX w/ 73k miles
1) Less annoying of the two problems. At idle and when driving, the headlights and the lights in the instrument panel "flicker." At first I thought it was the 9005's that I had put in place of the 9006's.... but the problem did not go away when i went back to the 9006. The battery is new, so that is not a problem. Any ideas?
2) When accelerating (slowly to moderately) and when cruising, the car jerks at certain times. It is the same feeling as hitting the rev limiter, except the frequency is much more, say, 1-2x per second. My sister had the same problem on her Escort a while back, but when she brought it to the shop, she didn't ask the guy what he did, so I have no idea what was done. I do know that with the Escort, it usually happened at about... 40mph.... on the Contour, there is no specific speed/rpm at which this is happening. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
wk217
