2006 1.4 75ps power?

[Stevez3]

Hi - my first post and looking for help!
Have just picked up the above car from local VW dealer. It's done 20k, full history.
It seems to lack power. When rolling up to a junction, if I leave it in second, then accelerate, it takes an age to get going.
Also, at about 40mph in 4th, with three up, I put on the aircon and went to accelerate and it really just didn't want to go anywhere. I ended up having to change down. I wasn't looking for hard acceleration, just keeping up with the traffic would have been fine. Am I expecting too much?
Any help / comments would be appreciated.
Steve.

[zedzo]

lol thats normal i guess. the 1.2 is alot worse u should be happy with it. when you turn the AC on it does decrease power thats normal to. u just have to floor them a bit to make them move thats why i bought the 1.9 Tdi it flies

[whitegtipolo]

dog 75ps thats why gutless they are! or try going out in another the same and compare!??

[callum aspinall]

iv got a 70ps 3 cylinder 1.2 and mine int that bad its quite nippy id take it in and tell them about the problem coz mine dosent act like that and it has one less cylinder then yours mines a great little car aprt from the steering issues i seem to have developed recently!

[charlievwp]

iv got a 70ps 3 cylinder 1.2 and mine int that bad its quite nippy id take it in and tell them about the problem coz mine dosent act like that and it has one less cylinder then yours mines a great little car aprt from the steering issues i seem to have developed recently!

^^Second that^^
I had the 1.4 previously and it wasn't as sluggish as that. Get it checked out

[brad mole]

ive go tthe 1.4 75 petrol and mines the same as your desribing mate, i didnt buy the car to be fast, just wanted something smooth and good on fuel. low and slow is the way

[RUM4MO]

I'm afraid the 1.4 16V 75PS is not a ball of fire - the joke, for me at least is that my Passat 2.8 V6 gives out 193PS - so you would expect that a 1.4 with 75PS would be a torquey little devil as its max power output is low - WRONG! I seem to remember that VW used to get hammered for the poor fuel efficiency and low output power for its last (1990s) models of small engines, some things never change, I had sort of hoped that this engine would be quite tractable - NO! They do need to get wound up a bit > sort of try to keep it on the boil - but then fuel usage tends to increase!