87homebuilttdi
Veteran Member
My 03 ALH wagon has been running so good for 4 years now and then all of the sudden I hit the gas to leave a parking lot and all it did was crawl out and down the street. At first I thought to pull over and check all my vacuum lines to be sure nothing fell off or was leaking, everything seemed good. As I absolutely had to get going, I decided to try driving again. I put it in first gear, hit the gas and nothing but a slow crawl to about 20 miles per hour. I held it to the floor hoping something good would happen....and it did! The car took off like it used to. Hit second gear, then third, all worked great. Decided to beat on it during the ride home in case the turbo mechanism was stuck with carbon. The car ran just fine all the way home. (20 miles) Started again the next day and the same sequence of events happened, floored it, moved slow for about 7 seconds and then it took off, ran fine until I turn the key off and restart. Does it again.... Anybody have any idea what causes this exact problem? Turbo must be fine, as it pulls just like it always did, intake is practically spotless due to the tune having an EGR delete and the vacuum hose is physically unhooked and plugged. (I did pull the intake hose and look inside)
Thank you.
Thank you.