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Hey all,
Not my car this time...
A friends TDI (2000 or 2001 I think), is loosing power under load, but not all the time. It's not 'limp mode' by the sounds of it, just a loss of power, and it seems to recover eventually. My first thoughts were clogged intake, or MAF. I would think that clogged intake would be a more consistent loss of power though, so MAF may be more likely. I've got a pretty good idea of how to determine if a MAF is failing, but the car is in BC, so hard to play with. I'm heading out there this weekend or next, and was hoping to have a few ideas as to what I could look for.
AFIK, regular maintenance is up to date, so I'm not thinking about clogged filters and stuff like that yet.
I'll have my VAG-COM, and don't want to dig too too deep, but the car is in Invermere, and getting it to a dealer is an all day event. If there are some basic things I can look for, it would help.
At the moment, I'll probably try to check out the MAF, and maybe peek into the EGR and see how plugged up it looks and see if anything turns up. She says it feels a bit like it looses boost for a bit. Hope its not the turbo failing! It has been doing it for several months now though, so the turbo probably would have packed up by now.
Thanks in advance!
Not my car this time...
A friends TDI (2000 or 2001 I think), is loosing power under load, but not all the time. It's not 'limp mode' by the sounds of it, just a loss of power, and it seems to recover eventually. My first thoughts were clogged intake, or MAF. I would think that clogged intake would be a more consistent loss of power though, so MAF may be more likely. I've got a pretty good idea of how to determine if a MAF is failing, but the car is in BC, so hard to play with. I'm heading out there this weekend or next, and was hoping to have a few ideas as to what I could look for.
AFIK, regular maintenance is up to date, so I'm not thinking about clogged filters and stuff like that yet.
I'll have my VAG-COM, and don't want to dig too too deep, but the car is in Invermere, and getting it to a dealer is an all day event. If there are some basic things I can look for, it would help.
At the moment, I'll probably try to check out the MAF, and maybe peek into the EGR and see how plugged up it looks and see if anything turns up. She says it feels a bit like it looses boost for a bit. Hope its not the turbo failing! It has been doing it for several months now though, so the turbo probably would have packed up by now.
Thanks in advance!
If it's smoken it ain't broken
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