Hi
I have a 2000 1.8i and in last few weeks it’s had what feels like a drop in power. So much so that when I put my foot full down on accelerator there’s little power. Feels like I’m driving the 999 cc fiat panda I had in late 80s. Ive just had service, plugs changed, fuel filter.
Any ideas what what it may be ?
cheers Hils
Oo oops correction it’s not had fuel filter but oil filter.
Is it since the service? Does it feel like a misfire or just down on power? I wonder if the porcelain on a spark plug has got cracked during installation causing it to track out to the cylinder head.
Is she crap low down and you need to give her some beans and then at top end she seems fine?, and as Rob says as she always been this way? are just after the minor service?
M-m
Hi
Thanks for replies
No it was like this before service and there seems to lack of power irrespective of which gear I’m in. I liken it to a blocked nose seems that something is preventing it from opening up and giving me its full acceleration
Does that make sense.
Is the throttle butterfly opening fully?
Some careful cleaning might help here if it is sticking. See the various threads and the cautionary notes about not removing the surface treatment on it.
Just a random thought that might be totally irrelevant, but you might have a restriction in the exhaust if the cat is clogging or it has ever burnt oil at any time.
Years ago one of my old Fords showed no improvement after an engine overhaul, no longer blowing smoke out the engine breather but still gutless. In desperation I punched though one of the inner baffles in the mid-box transforming it into a straight-through exhaust and suddenly it had vast amounts of wheel-spinning power.
OP
Where are you?
M-m
I am from Glossop
I have no idea what a butterfly throttle is but will defo Google.
Has it for some reason Gone into Limp Home mode GET some one to plug in a fault reader.Maybe a local Garage
As you are at Glossop might be worth taking it to Roddisons at Sheffield and putting it on the rolling road.
I recently had a lack of power soon after I had some front pads fitted by my local garage and the condition slowly deteriorated. When I found the problem as the front wheels were difficult to rotate when fitting my winter wheels I fitted turbo grove disks and green stuff pads from motoring classics and new brake pistons and seals.
I have gone back to doing my own servicing. My 5 now is much more responsive.
Probably not your issue but worth a look.
Cheers
Derek
Not sure of your capabilities but I’m assuming that there is no obvious misfire, running on 3 cylinders, etc, that would indicate electrical/spark plug fault.
Have you looked at the colour of the spark plugs? Should be brownish grey. If badly sooted or white then indicates too rich or weak mixture. If rich I would look at the air filter to see if it dirty/blocked. If white then indicates fuel starvation.
Also worth checking cylinder pressures for blown head gasket or broken ring. There are a number of threads on this forum about checking cylinder pressures.
As wattie said check the ECU for fault codes.
Other than that as said previously if you don’t have a local garage that you trust then Roddisons at Sheffield are the experts.
I’d second the suggestion about checking your exhaust.
I had a honda that was loosing power. One day I saw some string hanging out the exhaust.
I pulled, and a never ending string of stuff came out.
Turns out all the muffler wadding was clogging it up. Power was much better after a new exhaust.