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michael peters · 16th October 2014, 18:57

Evening all, just bought a one owner 75 tourer with 122k mls on it. Came with a hot start problem (was aware of this) which with the help of searches on this excellent forum was traced to very bad leakback on no4 injector. Injector replaced (came out very easily) now starts perfectly hot or cold. So far, so good. Took the car out for its first decent run today only to find that it seems to lack any power until about 2000rpm. This I assume is when the turbo gets going. But up to then it seems very lacking in power to the extent that it difficult to drive, having to constantly use the gears to keep it spinning away. A basic test on the run showed that on a flat road with it running at 1500rpm in 5th gear no acceleration at all was possible. In 4th gear, it would very slowly accelerate until it reached 2000rpm and then get going apparently ok. In lower gears, dead until 2000, then away it goes easily passing the 4000rpm mark. The car was chipped from new to ZT spec. Any ideas please. Have only covered 50 miles with the car, the re-set computer says 44mpg.

16th October 2014, 18:57	#1
michael peters Regular poster rover 75 tourer Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: crediton Posts: 59 Thanks: 21 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Lack of low speed power, CTD 2.0 ltr Evening all, just bought a one owner 75 tourer with 122k mls on it. Came with a hot start problem (was aware of this) which with the help of searches on this excellent forum was traced to very bad leakback on no4 injector. Injector replaced (came out very easily) now starts perfectly hot or cold. So far, so good. Took the car out for its first decent run today only to find that it seems to lack any power until about 2000rpm. This I assume is when the turbo gets going. But up to then it seems very lacking in power to the extent that it difficult to drive, having to constantly use the gears to keep it spinning away. A basic test on the run showed that on a flat road with it running at 1500rpm in 5th gear no acceleration at all was possible. In 4th gear, it would very slowly accelerate until it reached 2000rpm and then get going apparently ok. In lower gears, dead until 2000, then away it goes easily passing the 4000rpm mark. The car was chipped from new to ZT spec. Any ideas please. Have only covered 50 miles with the car, the re-set computer says 44mpg.