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99 V70 XC power, tranny? diagnosis help please? V70-XC70

Have had this rig about a month, driving around town. Took it on its first several hour trip this weekend. Something seriously out of order. Help with diagnosis? Thank you.

We are in eastern Washington, lots of hills, temps yesterday in the high 70s.

Car loses power going up a hill, acts like it is flooded, speed backs to less than 30 mpg, more gas pedal it acts like it will stall; less gas pedal it will 'sip' and eventually work itself up to 45 mph on a grade usually passed easily at 60.

Car in neutral at idle chugs and chuff. At highway speed, car begins to lose power, down to 45 mph if rpms less than 3500; if you mash the gas pedal, rpms go up to 6000, car accelerates back up to 60, rpms drop back down to 3000....

Yeah we limped home like this 200 miles.

The gas mileage went from 21.3 down to 20.6 but I'm not sure how that works; is it the entire life of the car or just the last trip meter was set?

The car has only had one tank of gas run by me in mostly town miles; we purchased it in April. It supposedly has had its timing belt replaced. We did major service on purchase and the throttle bodies or whatever they are called were replaced, all 5 of them. The inspection they did stated the 02 sensor needs replaced for a $200 or so bill. Any ideas on diagnosis? I'm calling the shop that did the last work on it tomorrow.








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    99 V70 XC power, tranny? diagnosis help please? V70-XC70

    You should have had a message on the left of the dash or at least the check engine light on.

    They replaced all 5 coils? OK, but how many miles on the car?

    I would suspect that the MAF is acting up and could need cleaning. Or it could even be a dirty throttle body, because it runs nicely over 3500 rpm. So, did you down shift to 3rd and drive it that way?

    The display under the speedometer is controlled by a dash switch. The switch has a small button which can be pushed to reset that particular display. It has nothing to do with the trip meter on the odometer.

    Verify which O2 sensor 'needs' to be replaced, and ask the mechanics for all of the error codes, not just the first one.
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      99 V70 XC power, tranny? diagnosis help please? V70-XC70

      Klaus, thank you

      The check engine light came on the day after the major service to the car about a month ago. Because the mechanic had surmised the O2 sensor was ready to replace, when I called him, he said, yep, that should be your next repair. Thanks? After the $1200 for the replacement of the ignition coils, all 5 of them, about 500 miles ago.

      The check engine light has been on since then, but the mechanic had told us if it was the 02 sensor we should be ok to drive.

      The MAF, I believe it was changed at the service we had done in April, to a new version that can be removed and cleaned. (I don't have the service record on me to look at right now but pretty sure the air filter has 500 miles on it)

      The display under the speedo is controlled by a little dial that says "information" but I have not been able to determine if the mpg it tells there is the life of the car, since the last tank of gas, or if since the last time you tripped the trip meter....probably tells in the manual if I would take the time to read?

      The garage I'm using gives a printout with all the codes on it and what they mean...








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        99 V70 XC power, tranny? diagnosis help please? V70-XC70

        Almost any auto parts store will read the codes for free.

        The MPG is from the last time the little black button on the switch was pushed, to clear it.
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