Hi guys,

When I'm merging onto the freeway, I notice that as I'm accellerating on the on-ramp, I have good accelleration up until about 30 MPH. Then you can hear the car shift gears at which time the engine seems to rev high and my accelleration is almost non-existent. My speed does creep up but oh so slowly. I can cruise along just fine once I get to highway speeds but Heaven help me if I need to stomp on the gas to pass. Basically.....I can't.

I was going to take the car in today to have its transmission fluid and filter replaced. It's an '01 MC SS with 55,000 miles on it and I've never had the tranny fluid/filter replaced.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,

Eric

 

 

 

Thank you for the info! I've never heard of a clogged cat converter. What wold cause that? Is there anything I can do to prevent it i the future? Does this mean I have to take it into the garage so they can change out the catalytic converter? We're talking expensive, right? Ugh!

Thank you,

Eric

 

[align=center]Hi Eric,[/align][align=center]If it is your cat that is bad, check the below link[/align][align=center]and go to the 5th MCF Members post.[/align][align=center]It has a GM Tech on bad cats on Monte Carlos.[/align][align=center]A cat for your Monte is about $188.[/align][align=center]Click below and hopefully it will help you `if[/align][align=center]you fall into the policy adjustment by GM.[/align][align=center]Labor and Parts are `free [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Good Luck[/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]https://montecarloforum.com/archive/...0-12459-1.html[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align]

 

KidSpace, you've been an amazing help! Thank you for the info and for the link to that post. I'm going to look into this some more especially about that coverage of what might be a bad converter.

Thank you again!

Eric