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Citroen Picasso
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I have ask regarding this before, but now I know what actually happens when I'm driving, Im just wondering if anyone would have anymore ideas, my car is a 2002 high mileage 167.000 a diesel and sometimes it loses power, I take my foot of the accelerator then back on again and it picks up speed again, I dont want to spend a lot of money on it, due to its age and mileage, although apart from that its a good car.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you know of a friendly local garage, they might be willing to fault find the vehicle without charge (charging you for the repair/fix), but most want to charge for such work.
There could be many reasons for such a loss of power – with the occurrence being intermittent, fault finding could be tricky. I would be reluctant to pay a garage to investigate the problem, possibly paying them money for nothing.
Given the value of the vehicle, I’d be tempted to live with the problem until the next repair bill results in the vehicle being scrapped.
Beg/Borrow/buy one of these – although no warning light comes on, it might identify the fault.
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There could be many reasons for such a loss of power – with the occurrence being intermittent, fault finding could be tricky. I would be reluctant to pay a garage to investigate the problem, possibly paying them money for nothing.
Given the value of the vehicle, I’d be tempted to live with the problem until the next repair bill results in the vehicle being scrapped.
Beg/Borrow/buy one of these – although no warning light comes on, it might identify the fault.
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I had fright with my last diesel when it lost power - I had to use kick-down on motorway hills the loss was so great. I was convinced the turbo had gone but the garage said it was the air-mass monitor (or words to that effect); it monitors the throttle position and engine vacuum and decides how much fuel to inject. That fixed the problem relatively cheaply (I can't remember how much).