Vauxhall Corsa loss of power

Not advisable to ignore warning lights ,is it the light with an engine and a lightning flash through it ? If so ,this light is indicating that there is a fault in the engine management system .If you get a diagnostic scan it should tell what the fault is .Could be something simple causing it .

Its an orange light, it shows a car with a spanner going through it. What ive described has happened 4 times in three days, and ive only had the car for three days.

That is the engine management light (orange car symbol with a spanner through it )This is indicating a fault which is causing the engine to lose power .In some handbooks it said "it is of no significance if it doesn't keep on re-occuring" .Your car is needing ckecked out .This will confirm that ,


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Okay. Thanks for your advice!

Glad to help , if needing further advice / help , get back to forum and someone will help you .

hi there

1st off the the problem you describe is a common fault with most corsa models. from what you say, the air flow meter may be on the way out- this would definetly be the cause of the car slowing and rev's dropping however you need to say if you can hear any 'pinking' sounds this would be most noticible on any hill as you apply power. try it then post back.

otherwise, if you say the car is losing power and it is not on a hill, it could be a coil pack problem as the engine is going into limp mode-a safe guard.

or, that light that comes on is just telling you its time for a service, some cars will reduce power to put the point across. check this out 2.

hope this helps:)

My 2010 Corsa sxi is intermitantly losing power when i press the accelerator as though there is a short block in fuel delivery or an injector block. I have had the car a year and three visits to the garage to rectify the fault. The first time the air intake sensor was reflced which sorted the fault, but it has reoccured several more times and had two more garage tests which have not resolved the problem....surley a vauxhall experet can find out the problem ?

any ideas out there ?

after researching myself the suggested faults seem to be;

1. Air mass flow meter

2. Fuel filter

3. Air filter

4. Air mass sensor....is that the same as 1 ?

BUT...the Air Mass Flow Meter comes out on top as the possible fault.

Yes Mike 4 is the same as 1. BTW did you get it sorted in the end lol

^ doubt you will get a reply to a 6 yr old post .

Correction , see someone has tagged onto original post 3yrs later so only 3yrs old .