2000 dodge neon skips at 55+ mph?

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Aaron

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alright i have previously asked this question and have currently replaced the TPS have still havent had any codes active or pending,done a complete tune up,plugs,champion gaped to factory specs,(double checked so yes theyre right) new wires bosch,this car does not have a fuel filter except in the tank.it has good take off power and will hit 100 with no hesitation untill i back out of it and level it off.then it periodically skips. could it be the coil pack? ECM?this trial and error can get very expensive as the c-pack is 90 dollars and the fuel pump unit is almost 200 dollars,so any helpful info will be greatly appreciated
i own a ford and a chevy and a dodge dumbass
ok why are yall on the dodge site but stuck on ford?helpful answers only.what is wrong with you people?
 
Try to ignore the immature people. I'm a Chrysler fan personally.
Anyway, by 'skipping' do you mean like surging? Like, you press the gas, but it's like it doesn't go, and then you take your foot off and it surges up? Idk, it's hard to describe, but I think I know what you're talking about.
I had a 95 Plymouth Neon that did something simillar. I just learned to drive it like that, but I think the reason mine did was an O2 sensor. Is your check engine light on by chance? I think that was the reason mine did it anyway. Also, mine stopped doing that after a while. It seemed to me that when I drove it really rough (like 70 and then dropping quickly down to 55 and stuff) it only did it then. It could also be bad gas.
I really hope this helps.
P.S. I didn't waste my time reading whatever insults you were probably getting from Ford-lovers, but I can tell you that the Neon is one of the best cars Chrysler ever put out. Mine was fast, stopped on a dime (or three feet in front of a dog when I was going 90) and just all around a great car! I hope you have fun with yours!
 
first thing you can do is run a fuel pump pressure test on it to verify that it has at least above 40 pounds of pressure if it doesn't this could be caused by a weak pump,secondly check the fuel lines for a bend or kink,also run a compression check on the engine,and verify there's not more than a 5 pound difference in any of the cylinders ,another thing that will cause this is a bad relay for the fuel pump,and its hard to find out if one is bad,you might try getting a used one from salvage yard and put it in and see what happens,i find a lot of bad ones this way,i have ran across coil packs doing this at lower speeds and not higher speeds,and its almost impossible to find a bad one unless you check it when its hot with an ohm meter and that's still not a very accurate way of testing them,i know trial and error is really expensive,remove the coil pack and look for a hair line crack in it that's one way of finding out if its good or not,when the get hot they will open up and allow a voltage jump to ground which will cause what yours is doing,good luck on it.
 
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