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aquariuz6

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I just got my car back from the panelbeater.

A few things seemed very funny about the car.

1st thing is that my max speed on the car now is only 80kn/h.

It revs below 4,000 rpm and just to go from 0-60... it struggles against a 20yrold charade

It revs pretty high just for it to go 20km/h.

It feels like its not even using the turbo itself. I'll leave the turbo for now.

The car feels like its only using 2 cylinders.

Panelbeater told me that he sprayed the whole engine bay with water. I noticed to when I checked the engine bay, my fuse box cover wasnt even on, everything was wet.

He told me just to let it dry and see how it goes tomorrow. He said that the sparkplugs might just be the problem... just wait for them to dry.

Hopefully this will solve my problem.

Does anyone agree with me on the sparkplugs?

Can they just dry up and be fine again? What about the fuse box?

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Im wondering if the panelbeaters had some fun with your car... High revs and low speed mean that theres a fair bit of slippage in your drive train, which points directly at your clutch.

As far as misfiring goes, id bet on the water. When my car was imported, they had to chemical clean and hose the underside and engine bay (as they do) and got water under the coilpack cover (between your cam covers). The water causes a short, and the spark doesnt make it through your plug. Remove your coil pack cover and let it dry o'night or longer.

If it isnt firing on enough cylinders to create enough exhaust pressure, it wont be enough to spool your turbo, so as far as that goes youll just have to wait and see.

ps WHY did they hose your engine bay out....??

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