My car loses power and it has a grey smoke when accelerated. it also idles rough and sometimes stalls.
Feb 21, 2018 at 1:10 AM
Loss of power and grey smoke
1999 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
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Hello,
It sounds like you have an engine that has jumped time. To confirm the issue lets do a compression test to see where we are at.
https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-test-engine-compression
Please let us know what you find. We are interested to see what it is.
Cheers, Ken
It sounds like you have an engine that has jumped time. To confirm the issue lets do a compression test to see where we are at.
https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-test-engine-compression
Please let us know what you find. We are interested to see what it is.
Cheers, Ken
Feb 22, 2018 at 12:23 PM
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