Car is chocking, losing power
03-24-2011, 02:40 PM
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Car is chocking, losing power
Hi all,
New to the site and wondering whether i could get some advice. I've had my b7 for about 6months now and only recently started to have a bit of drama with it.
I am suspection the catalytic converter is gone however unsure. The car has definately lost power and feels like its chocking and if i put my foot down i can also smell somewhat of a burning smell too! any ideas?
also not sure if it is related but yesterday twice as i was driving it completely cut power for a second (so i tried to put my foot further down.... nothing) then when i let go and accelerated again it went as per normal. Transmission problem?
ps. service is due on saturday. planning to do full oil, filters, break pads & disks. maybe i should consider doing transmission
any help would be greatly apreciated. hope to learn alot from you guys
New to the site and wondering whether i could get some advice. I've had my b7 for about 6months now and only recently started to have a bit of drama with it.
I am suspection the catalytic converter is gone however unsure. The car has definately lost power and feels like its chocking and if i put my foot down i can also smell somewhat of a burning smell too! any ideas?
also not sure if it is related but yesterday twice as i was driving it completely cut power for a second (so i tried to put my foot further down.... nothing) then when i let go and accelerated again it went as per normal. Transmission problem?
ps. service is due on saturday. planning to do full oil, filters, break pads & disks. maybe i should consider doing transmission
any help would be greatly apreciated. hope to learn alot from you guys
03-25-2011, 08:59 AM
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Check your cam follower, cutting power for a second is a typical symptom of this being bad.
Look around your oil cap for oil, if some is around that area you might have a bad PCV valve.
Look around your oil cap for oil, if some is around that area you might have a bad PCV valve.
03-27-2011, 06:52 PM
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sure enough found a bit of oil too..
03-28-2011, 05:40 AM
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If you could get access to a VAG-COM to pull the codes, that'd be very useful. You could have bad ignition coils, or a bad fuel pump. Hard to say without the diagnostics...
03-28-2011, 10:03 AM
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how very kind of them!
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03-30-2011, 05:22 AM
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Both. I would sit at a red light and the RPMs would drop and the car would shudder like it was about to die. I had a major loss of power. I would press on the gas and it would either not increase in speed or would jerk as it was attempting to increase in speed. Car seems fine now.
03-30-2011, 02:00 PM
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Both. I would sit at a red light and the RPMs would drop and the car would shudder like it was about to die. I had a major loss of power. I would press on the gas and it would either not increase in speed or would jerk as it was attempting to increase in speed. Car seems fine now.
03-31-2011, 05:54 AM
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I hope that's all it is and is a simple fix for you. They only had my car in the shop for half a day. Had other things going on not related to that as well so maybe yours would be done a bit faster.