Acceleration Problems this morning - help ?

morris_GTI · Post by **morris_GTI** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:40 am

HI guys, i've just joined as i got a black 3dr 2000 Polo GTI on the weekend

I love the car to bits, however...

This morning on the way to work i was in a bit of a 'rush' and was getting good performance throughout - but after around 8-10 minutes it was as if the car suddenly got slower.

The issue feels as if i did have 125bhp, but now i have about 70 ?!

I cant hear any different noises or see any error lights come on on the dash, its just much slower in all gears

? Engine temp was bang on 50% and was running no hotter than normal.

I'm going to go for a quick drive up the road on my lunchbreak to see if its still occuring.

Does anyone have any ideas, or am i gonna have to take an expensive trip down to VW?

cheers,

Mike_M · Post by **Mike_M** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:26 am

Fuel filter and or air filter could be blocked.....when were they last changed?

tegwin · Post by **tegwin** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:55 pm

If you were ragging it, its possible it has dropped into limp home mode, one of the things this does is switch off the VVT actuator....which will loose you a fair bit of power...

It sometimes resets itself, but if you were ragging it very hard and got unlucky, one of the sensors might have gone parrot....

morris_GTI · Post by **morris_GTI** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:42 pm

cheers tegwin, think you nailed that f**ker on the head there.

Just went for a quick drive and its rapid now lol! seems a simple turn off/on worked a treat.

nice one.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:15 pm

If it does it again, take it to a garage and get them to run vagcom through it, for it may well be one of sensors is tripping it.

morris_GTI · Post by **morris_GTI** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:50 pm

UPDATE:

coming home today my car died.

was cruising at 50 and it slipped out of 5th gear twice... then, when overtaking someone the car lost all gears and i had to pull over

AA had to toe me home, he seemed to think that the gear linkage is messed up and seems to have come loose?!

*sigh* more exspense

bbspolo · Post by **bbspolo** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:21 am

Sorry bout ur bad luck mate but
welcome 2 the world of polo gti's
get used 2 it!

Honestly though owning one (i had one from new, 6 years now and had LOADS of other cars in that time) is not like owning a normal car i ither drive every were with a massive smile on my face swearing 2 god that i will never sell it or ..................
I look at it in my garage in bits were its broken AGAIN (ive had my gearbox out 5 times now!) wanting 2 pour petrol on it spark it up and watch it burn!!!!

However im afraid there is no know fix for poloitus