Power dip in 184 TDI

[Ryan leckenby]

Had my car in a vw specialist and has replaced the boost pressure sensor now drives like normal and the code said there was an air leak

 

[SteveGSXR600K1]

Oddly, mine did this really badly today. Whether the cold weather (-3 here) made it worse I'm not sure. Mine's a March 2016 model, with 15000 on the clock, no mods.

Touch wood I have had this on my 184FR, but I did have these symptoms on a C-Max 16 TDi several years ago. When it was these freezing temperatures, it would stutter, lose power and go into limp mode if pushed over 2.5k RPM. The errors were low fuel rail pressure. The Ford engineer explained that the fuel filter filters out the waxes in the diesel, and it's fine in the summer, but in these colder days, it goes solid and restricts the fuel flow. After a new fuel filter, it was fine. Thankfully, Ford's service plans were such that a fuel filter change was included in a Full service, and only cost something like £40 extra, so I went for this every year.

Not sure how often the filter is recommended to be changed by SEAT.

 

[BinsGuy32]

Hi guys,

Same issue with my 2014 FR 184 @ 60k. Generally when I’m in a high gear, low revs, and split second lack of power. The problem is it happens so quickly, it’s hard for me to take note of any patterns. The car does run fine to be fair, but I do find it quite annoying and worrying! My first thoughts were injectors, or even worse the turbo could be on its way out, but after reading through the the posts on here im glad to see that I’m not the only one who gets this, and no one has mentioned turbo or injectors once, so fingers crossed! I’m going to try keeping it in normal or sport mode for a while and see if the problem persists (most of the time I potter about in ECO mode!) will keep you all posted

 

[Miguel 7]

Mine does it too, hasn't really bothered me too much. No errors on vcds

 

[RoadRunner]

Hey, guys. Tonight I made a registration in the forum and this is my first post. I am happy to tell you that I have found a solution to this annoying problem. After watching a youtube clip about the problem of starting the engine, I changed the valve to VVT, as well as the solenoid, but it had no effect and continued to lose power. About 3 weeks ago when I got stuck on the cluster lit up EPC, I read the VCDS error and showed me engine speed sensor (G28). Тwo days after that, I bought a Bosch sensor, changed it, and since then I have had no problems either with startup or losing power, and I have passed about 3000km