Petrolheed
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My father and I bought a P38 2.5DSE (97-98) today and she seems to run sweet as a nut except there appears to be an intermittent fault.
When driving up a fairly steep road it seemed to lose power all of a sudden to the point where we were in first gear (should be a 4th gear hill) and at the same time the temp gauge rose extremely quickly. we slackened off before hitting the red.
It did it twice on two separate occasions but when trying to replicate the fault to work out what was going on we can't get it to do so.
Coolant level seems fine however we did top it up as my father took the cap off while still hot and managed to let it spill out. Fan is running fine. Although temp gauge showed high I wouldn't have said the engine smelled hot. The hill is literally 1/4mile long at most.
Any suggestions?
My father and I bought a P38 2.5DSE (97-98) today and she seems to run sweet as a nut except there appears to be an intermittent fault.
When driving up a fairly steep road it seemed to lose power all of a sudden to the point where we were in first gear (should be a 4th gear hill) and at the same time the temp gauge rose extremely quickly. we slackened off before hitting the red.
It did it twice on two separate occasions but when trying to replicate the fault to work out what was going on we can't get it to do so.
Coolant level seems fine however we did top it up as my father took the cap off while still hot and managed to let it spill out. Fan is running fine. Although temp gauge showed high I wouldn't have said the engine smelled hot. The hill is literally 1/4mile long at most.
Any suggestions?
