This afternoon on my way home to get some dinner I was making a turn from a busy street onto a residential street when all of the sudden the car just lost power. I pretty much negotiated that turn at a slower than a turtle..very dangerous especially in a strong rain..good thing there as no oncoming traffic. The engine would rev higher as I got on the acceleratator but the car just would NOT go. The service engine soon light also came on. This was very scary at a turn like that. I didn't want to turn off the ignition at first because I was affraid the whole thing would crap out...I did pull over over, however, and turned off the ignition. I let it sit there for like 5 seconds and then tried again. The car seemed to get more power, but still very weak and would not accelerate past like 15 miles/hr. I was close to home so I was able to limp on over but I am left wondering what is the deal? In the manual it describes something as fail safe mode, which seems to fit my car's symptoms but it also says that it happens in extreme conditions and I was not in any extreme conditions (save rain but I don't consider that extreme). Does anyone have any idea about this? Any thoughts? Only thing I did diffferent in the morning was turn off the ingition while it was still in drive but when the key was not relieased I put it in Park and then it released the key. Anyways, enough of rambling...I am going check out the car again and see if it reset and if it works again..but this worries me a great deal!..again any clues?
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