Loss of power on 1.9TDi, now fixed

Lowflyer · 26-10-2006, 22:34

Hello everybody out there! This is my first post so here goes:

About 2 weeks ago I was driving my 05 reg Octy 1.9Tdi Elegance (30k on clock) when it suddenly lost a lot of its pull. I was 1.5hrs into a 2hr journey and had overtaken a lorry about a mile before. Everything had felt normal but then I slowed down to take a tight left turn into a side road and as I rounded the corner and went back on the throttle there was a sudden lack of power. I found somewhere safe to stop and revved the engine in neutral, which seemed normal and there was no engine-fault indication on the dash. I thought about switching off then on but decided not to in case it wouldn’t restart. I continued home and noticed that it had lost a lot of its low revs torque and was very slow to rev above 2500rpm. On a straight or downhill stretch, with foot to the floor, it would make it to 3000rpm but no more. When accelerating I could still hear the whistle of the turbo.

The next day I took it on a dual carriageway later and found that it would get to 70mph although acceleration from 60 to 70 was pretty leisurely. Once up to 70-75mph, now on a motorway, it had no trouble maintaining its speed even up hills. Interestingly I noticed that if slowed to 50-60mph due to traffic it would pull quite strongly back up to indicated 75mph using Resume on the Cruise Control. I also tried turning the Cruise control off in case it was the cause of the problem but it didn’t make any difference.

Today I took it to my local Skoda dealer who checked it on the diagnostics and found no problem. However they did reset the "Readiness" indicators anyway. They said it was to re-synchronise the engine management sensors with each other. After this it was immediately back to normal pulling strongly and revving easily past 3500rpm. The dealer’s said they didn’t know what could have caused it – hopefully it was a one off…

I just thought I would report this in case anyone else gets the same problem.

Tom_vRS · 26-10-2006, 22:36

Welcome to the forum.

Strange problem. Fingers crossed it stays away.

26-10-2006, 22:34	#1
Lowflyer Briskodian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 59 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Loss of power on 1.9TDi, now fixed Hello everybody out there! This is my first post so here goes: About 2 weeks ago I was driving my 05 reg Octy 1.9Tdi Elegance (30k on clock) when it suddenly lost a lot of its pull. I was 1.5hrs into a 2hr journey and had overtaken a lorry about a mile before. Everything had felt normal but then I slowed down to take a tight left turn into a side road and as I rounded the corner and went back on the throttle there was a sudden lack of power. I found somewhere safe to stop and revved the engine in neutral, which seemed normal and there was no engine-fault indication on the dash. I thought about switching off then on but decided not to in case it wouldn’t restart. I continued home and noticed that it had lost a lot of its low revs torque and was very slow to rev above 2500rpm. On a straight or downhill stretch, with foot to the floor, it would make it to 3000rpm but no more. When accelerating I could still hear the whistle of the turbo. The next day I took it on a dual carriageway later and found that it would get to 70mph although acceleration from 60 to 70 was pretty leisurely. Once up to 70-75mph, now on a motorway, it had no trouble maintaining its speed even up hills. Interestingly I noticed that if slowed to 50-60mph due to traffic it would pull quite strongly back up to indicated 75mph using Resume on the Cruise Control. I also tried turning the Cruise control off in case it was the cause of the problem but it didn’t make any difference. Today I took it to my local Skoda dealer who checked it on the diagnostics and found no problem. However they did reset the "Readiness" indicators anyway. They said it was to re-synchronise the engine management sensors with each other. After this it was immediately back to normal pulling strongly and revving easily past 3500rpm. The dealer’s said they didn’t know what could have caused it – hopefully it was a one off… I just thought I would report this in case anyone else gets the same problem.

26-10-2006, 22:36	#2
Tom_vRS Briskodaholic Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fenland, Cambridgeshire Posts: 10,786 Thanks: 573 Thanked 362 Times in 244 Posts	Re: Loss of power on 1.9TDi, now fixed Welcome to the forum. Strange problem. Fingers crossed it stays away. __________________ 97/R BMW 328i in Boston Green. << Clickable for boring info. My Journal

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