# My car hesitates when driving

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** legend, acura\
**Created:** [April 4, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452 "2013-04-04T01:11:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aricht41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@aricht41](https://community.cartalk.com/u/aricht41)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452/1 "2013-04-04T01:11:48Z")

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Hi. Hope someone has some ideas as to what is wrong with my car. It drives fine for a while every day then out of the blue starts hesitating and sounding like it wants to shut off when we’re at a traffic light. It gets worse when I am making a turn, like it hesitates to pick up speed and starts like sputtering. When my car does this the muffler starts smoking really bad. The smoke is not a black color it is white. When it feels like it’s going to turn off, I have to put it in Neutral then it stops. They did say the fuel pump wasn’t bad so I am assuming spark plugs??? If anyone has any idea as to what may be causing this problem, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![98caddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/bb73d2/32.png) [@98caddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/98caddy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452/2 "2013-04-04T01:23:40Z")

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What year Acura Legend and approximately how many miles?

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**Author:** ![WesternRoadtripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@WesternRoadtripper](https://community.cartalk.com/u/WesternRoadtripper)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452/3 "2013-04-04T10:45:16Z")

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White smoke from tailpipe suggests water in the exhaust. Are you losing coolant?

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**Author:** ![98caddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/bb73d2/32.png) [@98caddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/98caddy)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-car-hesitates-when-driving/78452/4 "2013-04-05T02:37:09Z")

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@aricht41, thanks for the message, but please post replies here to help as many people as possible. I understand your car is a 1994 Acura Legend and has 110,000 miles on it.

This info will be helpful to those who have more knowledge than me.