Car dies on bumps and when braking

[Feckl]

Long time lurker first time poster. I need some help with my 02 GT!

I started having this strange problem where the car will nearly or fully die when I run over larger bumps in the road or brake with any sort of urgency. If the cars still in gear I get some bucking and a big backfire. Car starts right back up and theres no obvious codes that could be the issue. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Noobz347]

Ideas:

Pull codes

We are looking for codes that indicate a sensor or sensors, out of range.

Look on Amazon for an OBD2 code reader. I'm certain you can find one cheap.

 

[squeak93]

Manual or auto?

Start by checking grounds (due to the bump comment). If a manual check idle speed or just a simple dirty throttle body and/or idle air motor. Sounds like it's not recovering quick enough and the hard braking puts pressure on the power steering pump which then bogs engine (yeah it's a stretch but I've had one do this before).