Loss of power whilst driving

[belfastfly]

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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[Dee_82]

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....

[belfastfly]

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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[andypsp]

3 hours ago, belfastfly said:

Could have been dodgy diesel

lets hope you never filled up with petrol 😉

[mjt]

4 hours ago, andypsp said:

lets hope you never filled up with petrol

That was my first thought.

[belfastfly]

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

That was my first thought.

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[mjt]

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.

[Dee_82]

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.