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Andrea Brown Posted on Dec 14, 2011
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2004 seems to loose fuel pressure periodically while driving down the road

2004 grand prix starts fine and idols fine, but when giving it the 'gas' going down the road it'll 'cut out' or 'chug'. It just started doing this. It's not giving me any diagonostics on the display.

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I have a supercharger in mine and if i run less than superios gas it will do this as well, good bet use shell premium gas and that should stop if it doesnt try replacing your fuel filter its just under the body of the car at the front edge of the driver side door :)

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