Hello all, wondered if any of you could have any ideas what is going on with my car lately.

It is an 02 plate Octavia 1.9 TDI Automatic.

What is happening is when I use the accelerator, it seems that 1st gear works fine, but then it gets into 2nd (and maybe 3rd too, it's hard to tell), it suddenly loses power. The engine makes more noise, the rev counter increases, and there is no real acceleration, it can take me 10-15 secs to go from 15-30mph up a hill. Then it seems to jump out of whatever gear it's in, and bite properly. I haven't tested this on any faster roads, so I don't know if it is just the lower gears or what.

Any thoughts as to what it can be?

Or barring that, any garage reccommendations in Norwich?

Thanks!

Edited 16 May, 201115 yr by jbax

You could try changing the gear oil. After that, things start getting expensive, and you need to involve a transmission specialist, because it starts sounding like problems with clutches and/or brake bands.

Yer there is a small garage on my road, the guy said he can check the transmission fluid tomorrow, or he gave me the details of a gearbox specialist. It looks like I have to give them a ring...

Seriously, if the car's done more than 50k miles, just ask him to change it. ZF Transmissions recommend changing ATF every 50K (and you'd hope they know a bit about it), and I know of several people who've cured slushbox faults this easily.

It's on about 113,000 atm but I don't have the service history with me to see when it was last done.

That gives me hope! Fingers crossed its not a new gearbox I need.

This place gives free diagnosis and estimate so will ring them after lunch... woo!

Took it to the transmission place, and naturally on the way the problem went away. Anyway, they tested the fluid, which was fine, and then he took it for a drive, said it was all ok and untill it started doing it there was nothing they could do.

Also said he had never heard of anything like it, and he didn't think it was too serious.

Only have one long journey to do till the MOT is due in a month so fingers crossed will be ok till then!