Q: Noise and poweless
My car is a VW polo recently have a funny noise as if it cut and does not have power can not accelerate maximum speed is 80km/h what could be the problem changed the plugs the problem still carry on and it sometime makes smoke oil leakages on plugs
My car has 250000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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