boojak87
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Good evening to you all,
I'm having an acceleration issue with a VT SS Gen 3. It has recently clocked up 100,000kms and went into Holden for a major service (the 160,000kms one, air, oil, fuel filters, platinum plugs etc). I explained that I was experiencing average acceleration when planting the foot and they said that after a test drive they could not fault it!
Now i'm turning to the help of the good folk at Justcommodores for assistance! Ok, so this is what happens:
1) Slight rough idle and on a couple of occasions the revs have dropped to around 500rpm-750rpm before picking up again.
2) Once warm, cruising at say 70kms/hr and planting your foot, it used to remain in the same gear and accelerate like a V8 should, although now it always wants to kick down a gear and even then, the power is just not the same (huge flat spot).
3) When climbing a hill, the car feels like it has less guts than my old VS 6 cylinder.
4) Fuel usage has been steadily increasing.
Holden's solution for something they couldn't find (HAHA shock horror!!! They always find the problems that aren't there and miss the obvious ones), was for the fuel system to be cleaned out with one of their $155 fuel cleans but before I decide to go ahead with that I thought I'd get some advice on here. I was thinking that as it is highly unlikely the spark plug leads have been changed since new, could it be possible that an arching/dead lead could be the culprit because it does feel like it's running on not all 8 cylinders?
Feedback would be heaps appreciated.
Cheers guys,
Boojakz.
I'm having an acceleration issue with a VT SS Gen 3. It has recently clocked up 100,000kms and went into Holden for a major service (the 160,000kms one, air, oil, fuel filters, platinum plugs etc). I explained that I was experiencing average acceleration when planting the foot and they said that after a test drive they could not fault it!
Now i'm turning to the help of the good folk at Justcommodores for assistance! Ok, so this is what happens:
1) Slight rough idle and on a couple of occasions the revs have dropped to around 500rpm-750rpm before picking up again.
2) Once warm, cruising at say 70kms/hr and planting your foot, it used to remain in the same gear and accelerate like a V8 should, although now it always wants to kick down a gear and even then, the power is just not the same (huge flat spot).
3) When climbing a hill, the car feels like it has less guts than my old VS 6 cylinder.
4) Fuel usage has been steadily increasing.
Holden's solution for something they couldn't find (HAHA shock horror!!! They always find the problems that aren't there and miss the obvious ones), was for the fuel system to be cleaned out with one of their $155 fuel cleans but before I decide to go ahead with that I thought I'd get some advice on here. I was thinking that as it is highly unlikely the spark plug leads have been changed since new, could it be possible that an arching/dead lead could be the culprit because it does feel like it's running on not all 8 cylinders?
Feedback would be heaps appreciated.
Cheers guys,
Boojakz.