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Urgent advice needed please!
- Thread starter Motorhead
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The RAC ' machine' is in motion.
The local vow dealer won't touch it.
The next port of call is the Salzburg OPC, and their service dept will be calling me before 11 tomorrow. In parallel, rac Austrian Rep will call them too so to plan what to do.
An email toZuffenhaus has suggested a plug top which I have as a spare in the boot, or the VVS valve sensor.
Seems odd that the car runs well after switched off, pause a few mins and restart.
I hope I can get permission to drive the car to OPC even if we have to do it in steps.
we are here for a few days, so might all work out!
Oddly, next stop over is Satzburg!
The car ran really well for last 3 days of motorways, but traffic todaydue to road works caught us ticking over and crawling for about 1 hour.
it threw the light after that.
the Orange engine light has come on and the message in red says reduced power, take car to workshop.
I switched the car off after a very long cramped motorway drive and paused for a few mins.
car restarted perfectly, no lights at all.
Drove carefully for about 20 km and same happened.
car running as if on 5 cylinders and definitely strangled on power.
got to Hotel, switched off again and waited a few mins.
car restarted perfectly, no lights.
need to get it fixed!
hoping to take it to OPEC in Salzburg tomorrow, 50 mins away.
any ideas as to the fault please?
oil level good, engine temp normal.
Graham.
Hope it's an inexpensive quick fix
Good luck.
The only way to get to the bottom of a correct diagnosis is get it plugged in for faults.
Good luck
I have a spare in the boot!
Hope to get it changed locally tomorrow morning.
As ever, thank you all for your replies.
Will update when done.
Engine ran perfectly and no lights on dash of course.
By 10.00am the new top was on.
No charges and works well!
OPC in Salzburg rang as promised yesterday to see if I needed any help.
Impressed by the RAC Euro brake down system.
They called me 4 times to check all was well, that I was happy and to just call if I had any further problems.
Now you can relax have fun [
Boxster a/c on full test, been perfect.
thank you to everyone for tips and kind words.
They are just down the road from our hotel there.
67 Euro each inc all taxes, but I'll have one!
They have been excellent and have come up trumps Dealing with my English easy.
Been out for a run today, got some 97 octane fuel too, 1.76 Euro per litre, car runs well.
33.4 mpg while doing hours at 130 km/hour.
there are many fuel stations that still operate simply, fill up and pay the lady in the shop.
Some stations are far move techie and thus complicated and awkward to use.
Keep it Simple!
partaking in coffee and cake and a demon real apple strudel too, so back in the holiday mood....
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