Holding back feeling when accelerating....advice please

[walchy01]

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 .... any ideas guys??

Thank you

[BiGUKG]

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?

[Neo Badness]

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.

[danny_p]

fueling

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

[VeeDubGTI16v]

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

[Mitching]

Mine felt like that.
Then it seized.

[delirical]

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.

[twistedblack69]

HY

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.

[walchy01]

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

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???

Any further advice much welcome

Thank you

 

[Neo Badness]

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