MK5 Golf GTI

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Title: Loss of power, re-started and now fine??
Post by: DaveE on June 08, 2016, 09:03:37 pm

Hi all,

As above really. I was driving home from work today when all of a sudden the power just went, it was as though i had no turbo. I continued on about two miles then when I hit a junction I re started the engine, after this it was back to normal.

Does anyone have any idea what this could be?  :thinking:

Title: Re: Loss of power, re-started and now fine??
Post by: Scott Bartlett on June 08, 2016, 09:37:26 pm

Did the engine management light pop up whist down on power?

Title: Re: Loss of power, re-started and now fine??
Post by: DaveE on June 08, 2016, 10:03:31 pm

No it didn't.

Title: Re: Loss of power, re-started and now fine??
Post by: Scott Bartlett on June 08, 2016, 10:41:55 pm

I guess something triggered the car to go into limp mode which could be a number of things but from my experience with the rental gti I had a couple years ago turned out it was the sensors on the accelerator pedal. The guy from breakdown took the pedal apart and cleaned a load of crap from them and it was fine after.

Title: Re: Loss of power, re-started and now fine??
Post by: DaveE on June 09, 2016, 07:54:08 am

Hi Scott, thanks for your help. I'm going to keep an eye on it and will bare this in mind.