What's going on with my 2002protege5?

I bought it on cl a few days ago and it seemed to run fine and the lady seemed extremely nice. Then I noticed… When going from 2nd to 3rd gear there's the slightest hesitation… But this morning i drove it and it completely stopped accelerating before it made it to 2nd gear so I had to pull over. It worked fine after that but scared me so I brought it to a transmission shop. They said its fine it only slips a little when going from 2nd to 3rd and I'd have to replace my transmission. I took it to another shop and they said everything was fine and it shifts on time… What's going on? I'm annoyed and stressed because I feel like I wasted 3 grand when I knew these transmissions were pos! Screw ford transmissions

It's not the transmission! You need new coil packs and plug wires, a very common problem on these.

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