Rover CityRover car struggling to accelerate

Car: Rover CityRover
Variant: Sprite
Model Year: 2004
Categories: Running Rough, Starting & Power Loss
When I change gear sometimes the car struggles to gain speed and sometimes slows down. Once stopped its fine and drives for a bit a till it happens again
Posted: Jun 7, 2014 (10 years ago)
Has it got any fault lights on?. It might still be worth checking the codes, but particularly the live data, make sure the sensors are within the specifications

but look closely at the lambda readings, map or maff reasdings and throttle % that's where I would say the fault would lie,
Posted Jun 7, 2014 (10 years ago)

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