gti losing power under acceleration

[mikegti]

I've just posted about this in the mkV section, if you'd like to go there and have a quick look at my post
http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... 84bef4fe2d

cheers

mike

edit: wrong link!

[morrismen]

Now, on my old car, this would have been due to a throttle position sensor going faulty. So, as the Polo GTI does not have such a device, could it be the connection to the throttle potentiometer? I'd jiggle a few connectors around when it's running (no shirt sleeves) and see if you can replicate it.

Maybe it's water in a connector shorting it out? If it's wet mizzle fine rain where you are, then this has caused loads of cars to breakdown in my area today!

[mikegti]

morrismen, thanks for that

is the throttle pot down by the pedal linkage?


cheers,
mike

[morrismen]

it's a matter of taking off the air filter box etc to get at it properly.