marcdavidellis
Member
Ok good evening ladies and gents, moderators dont tell me off I am starting a new thread although related to another of mine (judder) its gone on a bit of a tangent and I would like to refocus the conversation and put a call out to your invaluable collective knowledge.
I have titled this thread "Is she choking" because one I know it will get your attention and two I think this MAY be what is going on?
I am a new owner of a under-cared for A2 1.4tdi 75 bhp 2004 reg 92000 miles on the clock.
The issue I am going to outline (hopefully better than I did previously here) I have since taking ownership of the A2, since then I have switched alloys to 15" pepperpots with 195/55 tyres (premium grade all weather NEW), new front discs and pads, replaced seized cylinders on rear drum brakes, oil level and temp sensor replaced, fuel temp cables replaced (sheared), loose bolts on drive shaft tightened up, engine bay checked no fuel leak etc and a small amount of play in engine mounts but not enough to have an effect or warrant replacing.
The issue is that in when I accelerate in a reasonable manner, ie not putting my foot through the floor, there is a hesitation almost like the engine as a cough and can take enough air in, this hesitation leads the the sympton I detected from the word go a "judder" or "shudder". Its soooo hard to explain in words but I can only describe it as after the hesitation the "judder" is mostly due to a sudden step in power to the wheels and the wheels are strugling to keep down to the road like skurrying squirrel.
This lurching/judder in not relative to road surface, incline of road or temperature. The only common thing is rate of acceleration, the ONLY way I can avoid it is to accelerate ever ever ever so gradually and slowly, and I know this is good for fuel economy it is painful to drive this way and like I said in my first post on this forum "I want to love this car" but I'm not feeling the love in my 120 miles a day at the moment!
So I am open to your thoughts, my thoughts are:
1. I hate EGR's and i have had issues with them on other cars, could this be the issue ? (hence the title of this thread)
2. The timing belt is 50000 miles and pushing 9 years old ( and I dont think the tensioners and water pump were changed then either), could it be this?
3. The clutch has not been replaced ever, so 15 years old and 92000 miles on it, could it be this?
4. When I took it for a little tune-up to see what happened when I drove it like I stole it, very aggressive acceleration up on the rpm in low gears at higher speeds, there is a definite and prolonged (seriously bad in 3rd at 30-40mph) LAG in acceleration like the turbo is working intermittently.... again I dont drive like this I was seeing how severly I could duplicate the issue I am having..... could it be this?
I'm sure some of you are rolling your eyes, I'm genuinely looking for your help to try and make driving the A2 pleasurable since I'm it for upto 3 hours a day!
Many thanks in advance.
I have titled this thread "Is she choking" because one I know it will get your attention and two I think this MAY be what is going on?
I am a new owner of a under-cared for A2 1.4tdi 75 bhp 2004 reg 92000 miles on the clock.
The issue I am going to outline (hopefully better than I did previously here) I have since taking ownership of the A2, since then I have switched alloys to 15" pepperpots with 195/55 tyres (premium grade all weather NEW), new front discs and pads, replaced seized cylinders on rear drum brakes, oil level and temp sensor replaced, fuel temp cables replaced (sheared), loose bolts on drive shaft tightened up, engine bay checked no fuel leak etc and a small amount of play in engine mounts but not enough to have an effect or warrant replacing.
The issue is that in when I accelerate in a reasonable manner, ie not putting my foot through the floor, there is a hesitation almost like the engine as a cough and can take enough air in, this hesitation leads the the sympton I detected from the word go a "judder" or "shudder". Its soooo hard to explain in words but I can only describe it as after the hesitation the "judder" is mostly due to a sudden step in power to the wheels and the wheels are strugling to keep down to the road like skurrying squirrel.
This lurching/judder in not relative to road surface, incline of road or temperature. The only common thing is rate of acceleration, the ONLY way I can avoid it is to accelerate ever ever ever so gradually and slowly, and I know this is good for fuel economy it is painful to drive this way and like I said in my first post on this forum "I want to love this car" but I'm not feeling the love in my 120 miles a day at the moment!
So I am open to your thoughts, my thoughts are:
1. I hate EGR's and i have had issues with them on other cars, could this be the issue ? (hence the title of this thread)
2. The timing belt is 50000 miles and pushing 9 years old ( and I dont think the tensioners and water pump were changed then either), could it be this?
3. The clutch has not been replaced ever, so 15 years old and 92000 miles on it, could it be this?
4. When I took it for a little tune-up to see what happened when I drove it like I stole it, very aggressive acceleration up on the rpm in low gears at higher speeds, there is a definite and prolonged (seriously bad in 3rd at 30-40mph) LAG in acceleration like the turbo is working intermittently.... again I dont drive like this I was seeing how severly I could duplicate the issue I am having..... could it be this?
I'm sure some of you are rolling your eyes, I'm genuinely looking for your help to try and make driving the A2 pleasurable since I'm it for upto 3 hours a day!
Many thanks in advance.