So my Mom's car has been having issues this week. She's got an '04 PT Cruiser turbo.
Just driving along, everything was fine, stopped at a red light. SES light came on and chimed. Light turned green, car didn't want to go. It moved, but would just chug along at 5-10 mph, wouldn't go any higher.
She was about an hour from home so it wasn't towed to our regular mechanic. Car ran fine for them, they weren't able to recreate the chugging/loss of power issue. They were able to scan the car and get the SES codes, there were 3:
P0138 - Bank 1 sensor 2 high voltage
P0175 - High condition
P040 - Cam position sensor circuit failure (code and/or description is probably wrong on this one, I don't have the car so I can't rescan it.)
They didn't know what was wrong and couldn't replicate the problem. Since the car seemed to run fine, my parents picked the car up and drove it back home. Talked to our local mechanic and he said next time it happens to bring it in.
Well my Mom went out the next day and it happened again. Chugging, loss of power. Had it towed to our regular garage this time and now they are trying to replicate the problem but can't. They are working on diagnosing it today.
Any ideas of what can be wrong? I haven't seen the car, only what she told me by phone. Sounds like it is related to O2 sensor/emissions.