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Biskit · 13-01-2008

I'm just coming up to 72,000 miles.
Most of those miles are motorway. My drive to/from work each day is about 20 miles each way, at least 15 of those being dual carriageway.

More observations... I had to drive to Sheffield today, about 200 miles round trip on the M1. Going down this morning was a nightmare. Today my engine warning light isn't on and the loss of power problems are back worse than ever. It couldn't even hold at 70mph in 6th with cruise control on, so I was constantly having to drop to 5th or even 4th many times to get revs up and power back to the engine.
On the way back it started off the same, then half way home I went for a minute or so with absolutely tons of thick black smoke pouring out of the exhaust, then as quickly as it started the smoke stopped and the engine was sweet as anything again. All gears pulling super well. Doing a tad over 70 in 6th, foot down and it just pulled and pulled kept going. Absolute joy to drive. That lasted about 20 minutes then it suddenly went all sluggish again, having to drop a gear or two every time even a hint of a hill came along. Further on, plumes of black smoke again for a minute or so, then it was really fast once again.
Something very odd going on here!

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Biskit Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Co. Durham Posts: 25 Member car: Alfa GT 1.9 JTD	Re: Lost my ooomph! I'm just coming up to 72,000 miles. Most of those miles are motorway. My drive to/from work each day is about 20 miles each way, at least 15 of those being dual carriageway. More observations... I had to drive to Sheffield today, about 200 miles round trip on the M1. Going down this morning was a nightmare. Today my engine warning light isn't on and the loss of power problems are back worse than ever. It couldn't even hold at 70mph in 6th with cruise control on, so I was constantly having to drop to 5th or even 4th many times to get revs up and power back to the engine. On the way back it started off the same, then half way home I went for a minute or so with absolutely tons of thick black smoke pouring out of the exhaust, then as quickly as it started the smoke stopped and the engine was sweet as anything again. All gears pulling super well. Doing a tad over 70 in 6th, foot down and it just pulled and pulled kept going. Absolute joy to drive. That lasted about 20 minutes then it suddenly went all sluggish again, having to drop a gear or two every time even a hint of a hill came along. Further on, plumes of black smoke again for a minute or so, then it was really fast once again. Something very odd going on here!