alloy36
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Hi all,
My car has recently started loosing power all of a sudden. I was on the motorway yesterday and and lost power, it went from 70 to 60 and when I put my foot down it continued to drop!!! I put the hazards on and managed to get off at the next junction by which time I was almost down to 30.
Strangely, when I stopped I took the key out and started the car again and all was fine, drove fine for the rest of the journey. It did this once before a couple of weeks ago and was having trouble starting again but I finally managed it.
I took it in to the garage near work yesterday. They did the diagnostics but no fault code came up. They checked everything over and said all seems fine. The dash didn't display any warning lights. I asked them to clean the MAF and EGR anyway as I thought it may be related to that.
Searches on TA and google have found that a few other people have had similar experiences but I couldn't find the final conclusion to what the cause was. Does anyone have similar experiences or know?
Fuel filter was changed for a genuine item not long ago, I don't think its that as I don't get any issues when I floor it. It is just this intermittent complete power loss which resets itself after stopping and restarting.
Thanks
My car has recently started loosing power all of a sudden. I was on the motorway yesterday and and lost power, it went from 70 to 60 and when I put my foot down it continued to drop!!! I put the hazards on and managed to get off at the next junction by which time I was almost down to 30.
Strangely, when I stopped I took the key out and started the car again and all was fine, drove fine for the rest of the journey. It did this once before a couple of weeks ago and was having trouble starting again but I finally managed it.
I took it in to the garage near work yesterday. They did the diagnostics but no fault code came up. They checked everything over and said all seems fine. The dash didn't display any warning lights. I asked them to clean the MAF and EGR anyway as I thought it may be related to that.
Searches on TA and google have found that a few other people have had similar experiences but I couldn't find the final conclusion to what the cause was. Does anyone have similar experiences or know?
Fuel filter was changed for a genuine item not long ago, I don't think its that as I don't get any issues when I floor it. It is just this intermittent complete power loss which resets itself after stopping and restarting.
Thanks