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I have a clicking sound under the hood. it's very noticeable and sounds almost like the cars hesitating especially when accelerating. not so much on the highway at speed. idles just fine but clicking sound there. just started any ideas. i have changed the spark plug's and wires.

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Unless it was a sound of your valves beating the top of the motor that is one of the most normal sounds for any operational engine is the click the clicking you hear it's going to be electricity going through your coils so it's pretty normal if you have a distributor base system that would be different I'm pretty sure your car is a OBD2 so it would be a coil base system so I wouldn't worry about it

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hello / it sounds to me like the throtel is bad, if you accel and there is no responce and the vehicle idles fine and you replaced the other possible option that is the accel poss sensor / that works in hand with the throtel body , need to check for priceing they are kind of exp /and depends on the year you may need to replace the dme aswell .good luck

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try fuel injectors....run a bottle or two with full tank through it and see if that dont solve the problemo.....

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  • Posted on Mar 07, 2009

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Had a similar problem; started fine but lost power under acceleration and would stall. I changed the fuel sensor relay in the fuse box located on passenger side of interior fuse box. Ran fine after that.

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  • Posted on Mar 27, 2009

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It's possible that the diverter valve (DV) has failed. The OEM valve has a plastic diaphragm inside and it can crack. If this happens, the car will leak boost air and will lose power as a result. Go to www.audiworld.com, click on Resources, then Tech, and then go to the engine article about replacing/upgrading the diverter valve - it'll show you where it is and how to do it.

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  • Posted on May 03, 2009

SOURCE: hesitation during acceleration

could be the type of plug you are using.I was told only to use ngk plugs.I recently put bosch plugs in my mazda 3 and the check engine light came on and it started missfiring.

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