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Loss of power and not running right?

Tiny
KEITH MCGOUGH
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  • 2001 MERCEDES BENZ SLK230
  • 146,000 MILES
I had it on the floor when it lost power at 4,000 RPMs and sounded like it was missing on one cylinder. I limped it home and started it the next morning and it was firing on all 4 but still didn’t have the power.
Saturday, December 31st, 2022 AT 6:44 AM

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Tiny
KEN L
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This can be the timing chain that has jumped time or the boot between the supercharger and intake manifold is blown, do you have a check engine light on? Even if the answer is no, we should run the codes to see what comes up.

This video will show you how:

https://youtu.be/HEvLsWdcL0M

This guide can give us some ideas of the problem to help us narrow the possibilities down.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/engine-has-low-power-output

Please go over this guide and report back.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2022 AT 5:10 PM

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