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Loss of power whilst driving

belfastfly
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Morning all,

So yesterday was a pretty bad experience - stopped at the station to top up on diesel. When filling up the fan was cooling down the engine (lots of noise and lots of threads on here about it).

 

I then started the engine and drove away (no choice, people were waiting). After about 20 seconds the engine started jumping and losing power. I couldn't reach 30 mph and almost went totally dead going up a hill!

 

Questiin is, was it the fan causing this or something else? Engine has less than 10k miles on it

 

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    could be absolutely anything. need some codes! fan could be a red herring or it could be something electrical or something to do with the temperature....

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    could be absolutely anything. need some codes! fan could be a red herring or it could be something electrical or something to do with the temperature....
    I'm going to take it in for a check up. Could have been dodgy diesel (i was across the border in another country when I filled up). Hopefully it's nothing more serious

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    3 hours ago, belfastfly said:

    Could have been dodgy diesel

    lets hope you never filled up with petrol 😉

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    4 hours ago, andypsp said:

    lets hope you never filled up with petrol

    That was my first thought.

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    Lol don't worry, it's the one think I know isn't the cause ;)

    That was my first thought.


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    That's good. It was just that your description absolutely fitted the symptoms of accidentally putting petrol in. 🙂

    I wonder if there was some water in the diesel you used to top up.

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    that doesn't mean some plonker didn't put petrol in the diesel tanks at the pumps. Seen that happen a couple of times around here.

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