No power on hills - help desperately needed

[John Graham]

Time to look at the computer codes. Looks like you driving in limp home
mode. Your o2 sensor may have failed or your cat. converter may have warped
shut on the inside.

John
1990 CQ

> From: "films" <films at crazyralph.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:08:24 -0500
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: No power on hills - help desperately needed
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an automatic 1993 Audi Quattro 90S.  Last weekend I noticed a
> loss of power on hills.  I haven't driven much until today and the
> problem was much more pronounced.  Even slight hills gave me some
> trouble and I crept up a steep one at 20mph with the pedal to the floor.
> RPMs wouldn't top 3000.  I never had any trouble like this before last
> weekend, but the car has only been driven 300 or so miles in the past 2
> months.  Does anyone know what could be causing this?  I had thought
> about a vacuum leak and I tried the "pull the dipstick" test and it kept
> running fine so that likely isn't an issue.  I'm really at a loss here
> and I'm afraid to even go for a drive because I'm afraid the car might
> die on me.  I love my Audi but I'm scared to drive it.  Can anyone
> please offer some suggestions?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Tony
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