2002 sportage loses all power while driving. Hard to get started and dies once i put it in gear. Auto trans... New battery and terminals as well as wires.

SOURCE: 2001 Volks Golf - no power - 2.0 Auto AEG; Vin:WVWBS21J81W078000

ecu is bad did you try to jump start the car or had any dead battery lately?

SOURCE: 87 honda accord

Probably a bad torque converter lock up solenoid...

Try starting it in neutral, and putting it in drive without your foot on the brake (I know the car will take off in quite a hurry if it doesn't stall but it's an easy way to check for this)

If it doesn't stall, apply the brakes, and if it stalls then, it definitely is a bad lockup.

I don't know if you're familiar with the torque converter function/operation, but where it is a fluid (liquid) and not solid coupling with the engine, lockup is used at certain road speeds/engine RPMs to get rid of the power loss that always occurs between the pump and the turbine of the torque converter. It mechanically (through transmission oil pressure) locks both parts of the converter together so it then acts like the engine crankshaft is bolted right to the input shaft of the automatic transmission.

But, as you might imagine, this system has to unlock the converter when you apply the brakes for the same reason applying brakes without the clutch on a manual transmission stalls the engine.

Bad lockup solenoid will cause this to happen... The converter stays in lockup and as soon as you try to stop the vehicle, you also stop (stall) the engine.

It also might be something else but I'd say I'm about 90% sure on this one.

SOURCE: starting fine, driving fine, but dies while going down the road

Next time disconnect the negative and not the positive if it ever happens again. This happened due to the PCM needing to be reset.

SOURCE: 2002 kia rio

Have you tried to turn the engine over manually? May be locked up.

SOURCE: How do you start a repair a code like p1624, Is it a faulty wire?

p1624 is atrans slipping code your trans needs rebuilt