5

I have Skoda Fabia 2002 with manual gear and over the past few days I find the car losing power when accelerating fast.

When I push gas pedal to accelerate quickly (in any gear) I hear the engine sound and rpm increasing in pitch by a lot more than I'm used to hearing, but the car doesn't respond and the performance is very poor. If I get up my foot from gas pedal little back to a position to slow acceleration, the engine noise returned to what I'm used to hear (and still accelerating) then I need to push slowly and it seemed accelerating.

What could be wrong with the car?

Braiam
  • 107
  • 6
user19713
  • 59
  • 1
  • 2

2 Answers2

14

This sounds very much as though your clutch is slipping. Essentially, the clutch plates aren't making strong contact and slip against each other under hard acceleration. Under gentle acceleration there is less stress on the clutch and so slipping is less likely.

It is not that you are losing power but that the power is being wasted.

This can be caused by one or more of:

  • Excessive wear
  • Poor adjustment
  • Leaking oil onto the plates

Unless addressed, it can only get worse.

Adjustment is the easiest to check, so is a good first step. The chances are, a turn of a screw will fix it.

Otherwise, you may need a new clutch.

Chenmunka
  • 1,442
  • 7
  • 24
  • 33
2

Slipping clutch by excessive wear. You need to change ideally the whole thing: pressure plate, disk and bearing. It could be oil leak but it would "burn" and eventually work, temporaly anyway.

Aram Alvarez
  • 3,376
  • 4
  • 22
  • 43