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Losing power when accelerating

Tiny
AJ22
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  • 2007 DODGE CHARGER
  • V8
  • 4WD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 140,000 MILES
Whenever I drive my car for the first couple miles it’ll be fine, then it suddenly loses power like I can’t accelerate. But if I let my foot off the gas and press it back it’ll stop, and it won’t happen again unless I cut the car off. I was going to change the fuel filter and see if that helps, but I don’t know a lot about cars, so I wanted to ask your opinion on it.
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 AT 4:56 PM

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Tiny
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This is normal when the car goes into limp mode which is usually caused by a dirty throttle body. Here is a guide that can explain it better and an additional guide to show you how to fix it yourself:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/reduced-power-limp-mode

and

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/throttle-actuator-service

Please run down these guides and report back.
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 AT 2:01 PM

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