1999 Mercury Sable misses

LEWISJP

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1999 MERCURY SABLE

Engine Performance problem
1999 Mercury Sable 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic

my car has a bad miss like out of timing and I have changed plugs and checked all vacume hoses do have any other ideas of things to check like maybe the oxegen sensor or anything

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MASTERTECHTIM

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When does it miss? At idle? Driving down the road? Possible vacuum leak?

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Saturday, April 5th, 2008 AT 8:06 PM

LEWISJP

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It will miss at idle and has very slow pickup when driving

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008 AT 7:32 AM

MASTERTECHTIM

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If the check engine light comes on then go to autozone and have it scanned and get back to me. They do it for free. Did you install new plug wires?

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008 AT 5:53 PM

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I can attest to this very problem.
The Spark Plug wires are junk. Usually they rarely get replaced, and before you spend a fortune on new gaskets and other things, spend $40 on some new Spark Plug Wires.

What's interesting about this problem is it will sometimes cause O2 sensors to die. That is a pain in the A$$ cause the downstream ones are terrible to access without the proper tools, and even with those tools their annoyingly hard, cause there are 4 of them, and it's hard to access them.

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Saturday, April 19th, 2008 AT 3:52 PM