Thread: Loss of power when warm?

Crank Position Sensor is probably faulty. Maybe the fuel filter, located on the chassis rail towards the rear on drivers side on pre-99 models.
Cheers, Paul.

Your fuel tank venting may not be working, loosen the cap when it happens and see if you get a major air inflow. A new cap may cure it.

Crank Position Sensor. Pretty common issue. Pretty easy to fix. Just wish my hands were smaller to get to that thing.

Sounds like it could be both, but my money would be on the fuel filter.

Try the fuel filter first, as a clogged one will suck power from your car. Also, I found that when I replaced my fuel pump, I must have stirred up 16 years of muck as I had lack-of-power issues directly after the fuel pump change. Fue filter is often overlooked and cheap and easy to replace.

The CPS will give the same sort of issues, but the car tends to stall rather than loose power. It won't register on your system as it's an intermittent fault, however it's easy to check; when the car stalls or looses power, open the bonnet and poor water on the CPS to cool it down. If the car performs without issue, then its the CPS (until it gets warms and dies again). Another easy to fix problem.

Let us know how you get on

Originally Posted by gt0336

...the engine starts losing power, the further I push on the excelarater the more power I loose...

It would start again with no problem, but loose power again after a few minutes of driving...

towed to my mechanic, but couldn't find a problem...

back for a week and it has been running fine, until yesterday...

it started loosing power again although this time if I backed off the excelarater it would come good, until the next hill or if I push the excelarater a little harder.

This could just about be de-ja-vu (how is that supposed to be spelt?) of my situation when my Crank Position (thought it was Angle) Sensor went silly. Apparently, they can become misaligned and chew themselves up?!? Mine got "cleaned up" and re-installed and has been good ever since.

Originally Posted by DT-P38

This could just about be de-ja-vu (how is that supposed to be spelt?) of my situation when my Crank Position (thought it was Angle) Sensor went silly. Apparently, they can become misaligned and chew themselves up?!? Mine got "cleaned up" and re-installed and has been good ever since.

The screws that hold he CPS are not torqued up. I was surprised how loose they were when I replaced mine (easy job and happy to talk you through it)

Thanks for all the advise, I am fitting a new fuel filter tomorrow. Can someone advise on the location of the crank position sensor? Can seem to find anything in Rave. The problem came back again today after a while driving in the heat (about 34 here today). Took a long drive yesterday (much cooler day) and it went fine apart from a very brief loss of power on the way home.

Look again at Rave, Page 408 under fuel system. Its there.