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All I know is that instead of wanting to accelerate when I hit the throttle, the rpms go up and the engine sounds like it's struggling instead of accelerating. Like if I was pulling another car. Or like if I was trying to shift from 1st into 4th. It's losing power. When it gains enough speed again, the rpms start going up again as if it was accelerating.
Last edited by ducky69247; 05-22-2018 at 06:44 PM.
Clutch slip? I wouldn't know if it was I think. When I put it in gear it stays in gear, and there's no trouble putting it into gear, but the way it bogs down when I accelerate, even the display thinks it was downshifted until it gets up to speed and the rpms start going back up like I'm accelerating. It loses power when I'm going uphill too.
Clutch slip is when you floor it, tach climbs, car is not accelerating as it should. You can usually smell it. 4th gear is an easy test, get into 4th at low rpms and gas it. the car should just accelerate slowly, tach should't rise quickly. If the tach shoots up and the tires aren't spinning or your pegged in your seat the clutch is slipping. :)
Clutch slip is when you floor it, tach climbs, car is not accelerating as it should. You can usually smell it. 4th gear is an easy test, get into 4th at low rpms and gas it. the car should just accelerate slowly, tach should't rise quickly. If the tach shoots up and the tires aren't spinning or your pegged in your seat the clutch is slipping. :)
Thanks celblazer, I wasn't sure how to describe it.
Would that cause a low boost, because there isn't as much of a load?
I definitely smelled it after running it to get that video for you guys, but you just described most of the problem I'm having. It does feel like I've shifted directly into fourth even if I haven't. I can step on the throttle without downshifting and instead of the turbo and gauging and the car speeding up, it feels like I skipped two gears. The gear indicator on the driver information center will even change as if I have downshifted
I have never seen a gear indicator in the DIC, and no mention in the owner manual. It looked like you have a manual trans in the videos.
Looking at one of your older threads, this has the GMTU.
Or at least, according to the information in older threads, I think it does. And,
The gear indicator on the right tells me what gear it thinks I'm in. When I throttle, it thinks I've downshifted, and the red dot that indicates the gear moves down a number. Rpms go up, speed not so much. It struggles, and eventually reaches speed, the number goes back to the correct position, the car starts accelerating again, and rpms start climbing again.
05-22-2018, 12:14 AM
