Q: My car is losing power while I'm driving and while ideling

asked by on October 12, 2016

I have a rover 25 1.4 petrol impression. When I start the engine it runs at just over a 1000rpm then slowly drops down to 600/700rpm when this happens it's seem like it going to stall also when this is happening it won't rev higher then 2000rpm. Also when I'm driving the stalling part kicks in again. I wait for a few minutes then it runs fine. I've looked at the CMP,MAP,. They seem to be working. Do you have any other ideas what it could be. Thank you.

My car has 6500 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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