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Hi guys,

Was casually drivin on the way to work, everything was fine until about 5mins into my journey my car kicks out 2 major splutter (similar to a fuel cut)...as i carried on my journey i have no power and max revs is limited to 5k. Anyone in the north/eastry london area have a vcds i can borrow for pint money or experienced something similar?!

thanks,

Ant

Thats likely to be the camshaft timing sensor. Its to the right under the engine cover

Common failure - about £40 to replace.

Thanks Alex, I believe i got a similar error code when i scanned the car before but couldn't remember if it was the same part name.

Thankfully, it just unplugs and is only one allen bolt to remove it

Sounds identical to what happened to mine a few years back.

New camshaft sensor sorted it out