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Title: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: walchy01 on 13 January 2011, 16:20

hi there

I took the car out today,a mk2 16V gti, when i was accelerating i could feel the car struggling to power away from memory this happened in all gears,this aint normal on my car :sick: :sick:.... any ideas guys?? :wink: :wink:

Thank you

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: BiGUKG on 13 January 2011, 18:20

Be interesting to see what this is put down to - don't know much about it tbh but air flow can cause it.
No odd noises?

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: Neo Badness on 13 January 2011, 18:26

16v? Holding back? Check the timing, had the cambelt done on mine a while back and it was flat, turned out it was out by a couple of teeth.

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: danny_p on 13 January 2011, 19:36

fueling

check the warm up reg is actualy doing what it should do, includeing wot enrichment

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 13 January 2011, 19:58

more likely to be spark if its happened suddenly, check the leads are ok for starters

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: Mitching on 13 January 2011, 23:43

Mine felt like that.
Then it seized.

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: delirical on 14 January 2011, 08:32

Quote from: Neo Badness on 13 January 2011, 18:26

16v? Holding back? Check the timing, had the cambelt done on mine a while back and it was flat, turned out it was out by a couple of teeth.

Yea mine was holding back because the timing was out and it was so badly tuned.

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: twistedblack69 on 14 January 2011, 10:29

HY

Quote from: veedubgti16v on 13 January 2011, 19:58

more likely to be spark if its happened suddenly, check the leads are ok for starters

I was going to say this as it has jus happened on my 8v, turns out the cap rotor arm its broken so I'm changing that, plugs and leads.

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: walchy01 on 16 January 2011, 19:19

Hi there

Cambelt done 1K ago,leads,plugs,all filters done 1k ago, rotor arm all in place and newish....

Was out in it today after having some replacement struts done, car feels so smooth now :smug: :smug:

It fine until i started a steep hill climb about 1:8 then it really really felt like it was not going to pull me up the road.really struggling for power....then it just found its power and pulled me all the way up and home... can the ISV have anything to do this....or is that just for something else??? :rolleyes:

Any further advice much welcome :wink:

Thank you

 

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: Neo Badness on 16 January 2011, 21:36

is it only when you go up hill? Could be fuel pick up?

Title: Re: Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please
Post by: Dirk Diggler on 16 January 2011, 21:37

A guess from me, but possibly the lifter pump in the fuel tank