307 losing power

Whiteknight

Wonder if anyone can help, got a Peugeot 1.4 hdi 53 plate (110k on the clock) and when driving home on from work on Saturday noticed that the car suddenly lost power and speed started to decrease - even with my foot on the accelerator. The speed levelled out at 35mph and changing down the gears had no effect, eventually after a few minutes of crawling on the dual carriageway at 35 it started to pick up again.

I am very reluctant to take it to a Peugeot garage due to the prices they change but would like to have some sort of ideas as to what could be causing this sort of problem so that when I take it to a garage they are not trying to charge me for something that does not need to be changed.

So if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

hewhoisnotintheknow

Whiteknight wrote: »

Wonder if anyone can help, got a Peugeot 1.4 hdi 53 plate (110k on the clock) and when driving home on from work on Saturday noticed that the car suddenly lost power and speed started to decrease - even with my foot on the accelerator. The speed levelled out at 35mph and changing down the gears had no effect, eventually after a few minutes of crawling on the dual carriageway at 35 it started to pick up again.

I am very reluctant to take it to a Peugeot garage due to the prices they change but would like to have some sort of ideas as to what could be causing this sort of problem so that when I take it to a garage they are not trying to charge me for something that does not need to be changed.

So if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

sounds like a sensor to me, my golf did this all the time, take it to an independent garage

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

It could be a number of issues, a partially blocked fuel filter, blocked exhaust, blocked air filter, faulty sensor causing a limp-home mode, failing fuel pump, electrical problems...

Really, what you should do first is join a UK Peugeot forum, and ask there - because it may be a common problem. Do that before you take it to a garage and spend money diagnosing a problem that hundreds of other people may have had.

harveybobbles

Might be the FAP filter is chocked up. Without hooking it upto a diagnosis machine you will never know. Any decent garage will have one and will charge you say, 35 quid.