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[John m]

Sorry to hear of your woes John. Hopefully it's nothing too serious and just dirty diesel as you say. Enjoy your night off.

I might try suck the diesel out and refill from a different garage see if that works .But I doubt thats the problem it feels like a slipping clutch .

[Horse]

That octavia I had that time I had serious clutch problems with it. I'd get it done and after about 6 weeks it would start slipping again. Only this thing would go into high revs but no power. Kind of the opposite of what you're saying,  low revs and no power. Hopefully it's not your clutch.

[Malone]

Sorry to hear of your woes John. Hopefully it's nothing too serious and just dirty diesel as you say. Enjoy your night off.

I might try suck the diesel out and refill from a different garage see if that works .But I doubt thats the problem it feels like a slipping clutch .

Throw another €20 juice in and give her a spin over the m50 , had the same issue if I used the garage on mespil road for some reason cheap grade fuel I think.

[John m]

It will travel but struggles under excelleration .Stick it in fourth and excelerate it just drops all the power seems like clutch .I had an occi they dined on clutches lucky to get 100K out of one .

[John m]

Sorry to hear of your woes John. Hopefully it's nothing too serious and just dirty diesel as you say. Enjoy your night off.

I might try suck the diesel out and refill from a different garage see if that works .But I doubt thats the problem it feels like a slipping clutch .

Throw another €20 juice in and give her a spin over the m50 , had the same issue if I used the garage on mespil road for some reason cheap grade fuel I think.

Going to do that in the morning Half a bottle of dipitaine run it up the Nass road .It only started acting up about half an hour after I filled it so the good juice in the filter would of kept it sweet until the bad stuff got through but its probably not fuel .as I said a lot of Taxis use that Garage if its bad juice we will hear .

[Belker]

Might you have taken to a new bad habit of resting your left foot on the clutch ?

It happened me a few years back when I got new 'Sketchers' which were about the widest shoe I have ever worn, it was my mechanic that said it to me that I had taken to resting my foot on the clutch that caused the problem.

[Octavia1]

Is dirty diesel urban mythology ?
 Anyway if yu got it .....change yur filter ... 5 minute job

[John m]

I think its Clutch Occi was getting a small bit of wheelspin when pulling away if I was on an incline 120,000 on the clock could still be the original clutch .Its just getting the right diagnosis before I spend Her Christmas money .

[Octavia1]

I think its Clutch Occi was getting a small bit of wheelspin when pulling away if I was on an incline 120,000 on the clock could still be the original clutch .Its just getting the right diagnosis before I spend Her Christmas money .

I suppose if it's clutch ...yur engine be racing ....if its filter....the engine be dying a death john ....
Get big dommo in it an see how it goes up a hill 

[Shallowhal]

I think its Clutch Occi was getting a small bit of wheelspin when pulling away if I was on an incline 120,000 on the clock could still be the original clutch .Its just getting the right diagnosis before I spend Her Christmas money .

I suppose if it's clutch ...yur engine be racing ....if its filter....the engine be dying a death john ....
Get big dommo in it an see how it goes up a hill 

+1....
If it's dying when putting the foot down more than likely fuel starvation..... is the car idling ok John?
Take a step back and don't throw the parts cannon at it,when was it last serviced and was the fuel filter replaced,also just cos you refuelled it,that might just be a coincidence.

[John m]

I think its Clutch Occi was getting a small bit of wheelspin when pulling away if I was on an incline 120,000 on the clock could still be the original clutch .Its just getting the right diagnosis before I spend Her Christmas money .

I suppose if it's clutch ...yur engine be racing ....if its filter....the engine be dying a death john ....
Get big dommo in it an see how it goes up a hill 

+1....

I will get it on the Diagnostics in the morning see what it says
If it's dying when putting the foot down more than likely fuel starvation..... is the car idling ok John?
Take a step back and don't throw the parts cannon at it,when was it last serviced and was the fuel filter replaced,also just cos you refuelled it,that might just be a coincidence.

[Rat Catcher]

I had the most ghastly experience with a Free Now job on Friday. I phoned the client and, while I was clearly in the wrong place, I just couldn't get enough comprehensible words out of him to resolve the issue so I tried to cancel the job. Whichever reason I selected (I tried them all) just opened an alert with some nonsense about the inconvenience of cancelling and two options - an X to close the dialogue and a "Continue Driving" button which also closed the alert. Neither would actually cancel the job so I had to enter a fare of €3.80 and send them a strongly worded message via the job specific help button which I accessed by selecting the "View Previous Layout" option in the Earnings section.

As Octy suggests the engine would be racing if the clutch was slipping, erm.... or the car would sound like a tractor if the Dual Mass Flywheel was faulty. If you are buying a clutch, best to go the Euroclutch in Baldoyle. He done my old MKII Octy at 150,494 kilos and it's still going strong with c.340,000 kilos on the clock. If you've got a DMF don't get a cheap solid conversion unless the car's on it's last legs e.g. within c.100,000 kilos of end of service.

Anywaysanall, with them DCIs I'd be looking at the boost pressure control valve and the vaccuum hoses connected to it (check for leaks) and the EGR valve and any pipes connected to it (clean thoroughly inside and out). If turning it off and on again temporarily solves the issue you could be looking at the accelerator's potentiometer.

[John m]

Thanks for the advice .Its beginning to look like an electric problem .Losing some of the displays on the dash when I turn on the headlights .Get it diagnosed tomorrow .

[Bob Shillin]

"Ghastly" bejaysus, now there's a word Paddy doesn't use too often.

[Shallowhal]

Thanks for the advice .Its beginning to look like an electric problem .Losing some of the displays on the dash when I turn on the headlights .Get it diagnosed tomorrow .

Ok so.....check battery terminals....amazing how a poor connection can cause all sorts of problems and any electrical diagnosis without a decent and constant 12v supply is hard to achieve,you don't mention any check engine light on the dash.......what RC says about the accelerator potentiometer,i know they had problems in the Megane(sister in law had problems)...dosy cunt of a mechanic replaced injectors cos the car would go into limp mode,very rare for all injectors to fail at the same time but that didn't seem to cross his mind......maybe the Fluence had a similar accelerator problem.