car wont accelarate when first started 01 toyota celica?

i have a 2001 Toyota celica automatic and the past few times i have started it and tried to drive away it kind of rolls and no matter how much i push on the gas it just refuses to accelerate for about 8-15 seconds. reverse, forward anything! at first i thought it was... Read More

  • I have a 2000 toyota celica and i too had this problem. But i'm a DIY kidna guy so i snooped around a bit in the engine to find out what was wrong. No matter how hard i would push the accelerator, the car would just bog and be very sluggish. So i went to autozone and bought a can of "MAF sensor cleaner" and cleaned my... Read More
  • If you put the car in neutral does the engine rev?? If so you have a problem with your transmission. You can try changing the transmission fluid but if that doesn't solve the problem you will have to have the transmission rebuilt. If the car doesn't rev in neutral then you probably have a bad sensor. If you have a... Read More
  • that is definitely the transmission. it might be out or just need to be serviced.

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