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Acceleration problems

Taiko · 2011-03-05 20:08:20

I may as well get the joke aspect out the way to start with, and state the car is a Micra, which is probably what the problem is. But on the more serious note, last few times I've driven, I've noticed it seems to take a while to get up to a decent speed on the motorway. Never had this problem before, so I'm wondering what…

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Taiko Posts: 2,729 Forumite

17 March 2011 at 3:07PM

Just to update, had it out the garage today. Needed a replacement brake caliper, and had some new pads and discs. Tested it with a run up the motorway, and everything working fine. Speed is getting up a lot quicker, even on the hills that I tested it on.

Cheers for everyones help on this though. I realise it's hard to diagnose anything over the internet.

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