While driving down the highway, my 1986 Fiero SE suddenly backfired, lost power, then regained power a few seconds later and was ok. Any ideas on what caused it? That's the 1st time it has done it.

Asked by mommap Jul 07, 2014 at 03:27 PM about the 1986 Pontiac Fiero SE

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Occurred during highway driving, when it happened I lost all accelleration ability for a brief couple of seconds, then everything came back and was fine.

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my 86 Pontiac Fiero with just over 60,000 miles did it twice while going down the freeway .. this just happened and I was wondering if you found out what the problem was ... Thanks

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