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I own a Golf GL 1.6 man (2001) from new, good little car, no issues up until now, having one of those problems that's a little weird.. and it's only happening at high speed, freeway driving & primarily in 5th gear, although I did have an episode in 4th last night - I have experienced this issue on my last 3 trips to Camden which is approx. 1 hr drive on sydney's M5 freeway.
generally what happens is: after about 45 mins or so of freeway driving, with speed limits of between 80 and 110km, I experience a performance failure where by I feel a drop in power, the car all of a sudden feels like it's holding back or pulls back slightly and to compensate I accelerate a little more, but it won't give me any more power, my automatic response is to drop back to 4th, and then recover that way - then speed back up and shift into 5th.
I first experienced it a few months back which coincided with the temp gauge jumping around like crazy - my mechanic ( top guy , but not a vw expert) changed a part and fixed the gauge issue, assured me that my power issue was related, had not experienced the power issue again until recently when I got the car onto the open road - i am concerned..........as it's a little disconcerting when it happens, and my worst nightmare is a freeway breakdown!
can anyone point me in the right directio
I own a Golf GL 1.6 man (2001) from new, good little car, no issues up until now, having one of those problems that's a little weird.. and it's only happening at high speed, freeway driving & primarily in 5th gear, although I did have an episode in 4th last night - I have experienced this issue on my last 3 trips to Camden which is approx. 1 hr drive on sydney's M5 freeway.
generally what happens is: after about 45 mins or so of freeway driving, with speed limits of between 80 and 110km, I experience a performance failure where by I feel a drop in power, the car all of a sudden feels like it's holding back or pulls back slightly and to compensate I accelerate a little more, but it won't give me any more power, my automatic response is to drop back to 4th, and then recover that way - then speed back up and shift into 5th.
I first experienced it a few months back which coincided with the temp gauge jumping around like crazy - my mechanic ( top guy , but not a vw expert) changed a part and fixed the gauge issue, assured me that my power issue was related, had not experienced the power issue again until recently when I got the car onto the open road - i am concerned..........as it's a little disconcerting when it happens, and my worst nightmare is a freeway breakdown!
can anyone point me in the right directio
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