97 stratus is doing the jerk.

[legendhusk]

My 97 stratus jerks when I get up to speed. No problem accelerating or decelerating, just maintaining speed. 2.4L, over 110,000. Help!

[PRPmax]

You saying just when you get to the speed you want.. its shakes? Kinda like bad timing?

I have a 96 w/ 112,000 and its giving me that jerking feeling when accellerating. In my case its feels like the tranny, but I could be wrong.

[RyanM]

My 96 stratus with 88k miles seems fine at speeds aroung 80mph, over that its a bit shaky. Maybe we all need an alignment?

[PRPmax]

More then likely its your alignment.. But for the other guy it's a tune up.. Mines had the same problem, ended up being it needed a bad spark plug and wire change.

[RyanM]

i was thinkin of platinum spark plugs and nice wires...

[aharv02]

Yeah,
You need new wires. That happened to me a couple of months ago. I thought is was the plugs but when I got them replaced it still did it. When I got the wires changed out the car stopped jerking.

[bobkats]

I just bought a 97 stratus and I was talking to a friend that works at a dealership and he told me that if you are going on a distant drive or if you drive around a lot, that you should put fuel cleaner to keep your engine clean.... it does help with the shaking.... if its that bad put a bottle in every time you fill with gas until it goes away... trust me it really does work