I have a 98 Honda Civic. I used to be able to floor the gas and my car would launch away, but I noticed today that won't happen anymore. I used to feel pressure from the gas pedal that would resist to hard of an acceleration, but the gas seems softer somehow. And when I floor it, it's as if I were just accelerating normally. I swear, the tachometer hardly increases at all.
This might be relevant: a couple weeks ago, my car died on me because the distributor was bad, so I got a new one. I think it drove fine after that. A couple days ago, I got an oil change and (I think they called it) a transmission flush. I didn't notice any difference after that, but I was also babying my car and wasn't pushing it performance-wise, so it could have been affected right away.
I want to place blame on the mechanic, but again, I didn't notice anything right away and I'd like to know just what the heck would cause this problem.
I guess I should have mentioned before that I drive an automatic. And I've never frequently driven aggressively (only if I was really pissed about something, yeah I'm an emotional driver). But anyways, I always thought about gas mileage and wear-and-tear when driving, so I rarely pushed my car excessively.
To answer some questions, it has about 88,000 miles on it and I don't remember ever doing the transmission flush before. Thinking of taking it to the shop this weekend to maybe figure this out.
I've noticed now that it accelerates fine till I get to third gear, and I can now get it to accelerate quickly up to fourth gear only by putting tons of pressure on the pedal. I wasn't able to do that before. Maybe it's healing itself!? :P