Help needed! Low power periodic issue.
09-08-2016, 09:43 AM
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Help needed! Low power periodic issue.
Hi Everyone,
Although I am new to join this forum I have used it for months researching and finally buying my RX8. Now I have an issue that I'm stumped on and I've registered and I'm hoping someone will be able to pipe up and give me a suggestion I haven't checked. I'm currently 600 miles away from home at my parents place in the south of France and have an issue. I leave to go back to the UK on Saturday and I'm worried I won't make it, or it will cost me twice as much! Haha.
Anyway I have a 2005 RX8 with 90k on the clock. She has new plugs, coils(D585) with new leads, new cat, updated starter, starts perfect hot or cold and she hasn't put a foot wrong in the 3 months I've owned her. The problem I have is that on full or part throttle some of the time she feels to be flooding or bogging down. Power is well down but if I tickle the throttle I can get her to drive as normal. It's a very strange one. It idles fine and some of the time drives and picks up fine too. But as I'm so far away from home I'm worried if it gets worse what I could do to sort it. I took the plugs out yesterday and one of the trailing plugs gap was very very small. Alot less that it should have been, so I gapped it carefully and refitted. This made no difference. As I said they were replaced about six months ago before I bought the car along with the coils and leads. If I stop and restart the car it will for a short time drive normally with the proper power etc but then without notice or warning you will feel the loss of power. To the extent of doing 30 mph in say third and flooring it and it struggling to gain speed. If you keep it pinned it will eventually get to the high revs but it's not the normal free revving way. I hope this makes sense. I have a 600 mile journey to do on Saturday so have tommrrow to check whatever anyone says to check. I am a relatively competent with a spanner and need ideas. I have performed a brake pedal reset and this showed no change. I've used search but can relate nothing to my issue. The KS in advance and I hope you can help me with something that I have missed.
Cheers, Chris.
Although I am new to join this forum I have used it for months researching and finally buying my RX8. Now I have an issue that I'm stumped on and I've registered and I'm hoping someone will be able to pipe up and give me a suggestion I haven't checked. I'm currently 600 miles away from home at my parents place in the south of France and have an issue. I leave to go back to the UK on Saturday and I'm worried I won't make it, or it will cost me twice as much! Haha.
Anyway I have a 2005 RX8 with 90k on the clock. She has new plugs, coils(D585) with new leads, new cat, updated starter, starts perfect hot or cold and she hasn't put a foot wrong in the 3 months I've owned her. The problem I have is that on full or part throttle some of the time she feels to be flooding or bogging down. Power is well down but if I tickle the throttle I can get her to drive as normal. It's a very strange one. It idles fine and some of the time drives and picks up fine too. But as I'm so far away from home I'm worried if it gets worse what I could do to sort it. I took the plugs out yesterday and one of the trailing plugs gap was very very small. Alot less that it should have been, so I gapped it carefully and refitted. This made no difference. As I said they were replaced about six months ago before I bought the car along with the coils and leads. If I stop and restart the car it will for a short time drive normally with the proper power etc but then without notice or warning you will feel the loss of power. To the extent of doing 30 mph in say third and flooring it and it struggling to gain speed. If you keep it pinned it will eventually get to the high revs but it's not the normal free revving way. I hope this makes sense. I have a 600 mile journey to do on Saturday so have tommrrow to check whatever anyone says to check. I am a relatively competent with a spanner and need ideas. I have performed a brake pedal reset and this showed no change. I've used search but can relate nothing to my issue. The KS in advance and I hope you can help me with something that I have missed.
Cheers, Chris.
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