Hiya,

I bought a 1999 diesel felicia for me to drive and for my son to start learning.

The car seems fine and has approx 60k with service record

It starts easily, lumpy idle till warm then steady 10k revs

It accelerates well for the type of car and revs higher than I expected it to, I only really have experience of driving van engines in diesel. Engine seems best at higher revs.

The problem I have, if it is one, is that as I lift off the accelerator the car seems really hesitant, like I'd run out of fuel, except on acceleration all is fine again.

Am really sorry if this is in another post - I did look but I didnt find an answer.

Mandie

Hi Mandie

Thats Diesels for you, thats how they perform, a diesel is very good for engine braking, so it sounds fine to me

Radiotwo

Edited 13 July, 200916 yr by DGW
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Maybe ....

I just drove a 2000yr old transit up the lane, the van weighs 40,000 tons but will go up hill with no more than idle.

We have a vivaro van and that dont drive like this and ages back we had a ford ranger and even that didnt slow like this...

more ideas please

I've driven a similar model 2.5l trannie, and VAG 1.9 diesels, as well, and there is no comparison. The VAG engines have significantly better engine braking. I don't know about the trannie off-hand, but the VAG engines all have an over-run fuel cutoff, which helps the engine braking.

As to your idle, I'd agree that 1_000rpm is a bit high; I'd expect more like 800. Start by checking the throttle cable goes slightly slack on a hot idle, then try adjusting the throttle stop.

Difficult to describe but if I let mine slow to a crawl in first it'll drop till it seems about to stall then picks up slightly and crawling like that it will pull through just about anything. If I give it some throttle there's a slight jerk and it takes off again fairly smoothly. There's no real sense of starvation.

There was a thread about starve and surge in diesels on here a while back that may be useful:

http://briskoda.net/favorit-felicia-fun-forman/felicia-1-9d-fuel-pump-mysterious-lever/138207/

Red, that looks like a mixture of the over-run cutoff and the anti-stall system from what you say.

I'm more used to the the 1.9 with a turbo, but it will trundle along nicely at idle in anything up to 3rd as long as you're gentle with the clutch, which is great for motorway traffic jams.

Hiya,

see Smokey Hunting Diesel Thread also

Its back working again - apparently the caterlytic converter was so blocked the engine couldnt work - the first mechanic told me this means they took exhaust off and made a whole through it! Anyway thank you to everyone - especially Matlockgreen Recovery Garage

Mandie

ps all the earlier question about lack of power and engine braking were all fixed at the same time.