Car not accelerating

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Hello,

I’m posting as I’m hoping for some foresight into how much my car repair is going to cost. It’s booked In for tomorrow.

It’s a Skoda, only 4 years old / 15k miles.

In the past few weeks it hasn’t been accelerating properly. I’ve had to floor it to accelerate. I’ve not noticed any difference between gears with this issue. But 0-70 mph would be slow. Noted that RPM isn’t increasing (much) when flooring accelerator pedal.

My (usually dramatic) family member said it could be the clutch. Whilst I know this could be true, I read online RPM would increase a lot and still fail to accelerate if the clutch. The car is also only on 15k miles and 4 years old.

If anyone has experienced similar, and could tell me what the issue was and how expensive to fix I’d be very grateful. 2K+ for a new clutch is weighing heavily.
Thanks

Thanks everyone

I had to reschedule it for today due to a last minute work reschedule (for myself). Should find out soon.

@MargaretThursday I haven’t done this 🤣 and wouldn’t actually know how to. It got serviced in October so thought that would last. Will find out

I haven’t done this 🤣 and wouldn’t actually know how to

If you don’t know how to check the oil level you shouldn’t be driving a car. It should be part of your weekly checks. It’s a question you can potentially be asked on a driving test and you will fail if you don’t know the answer.

My old car used to go into limp mode but there were always warning lights and I wouldnt have been able to go above 30mph.

@Shade17 I’ve now learnt, I’m sure you know every answer to every potential question they can ask you on the driving test and theory test 👍🏻

It wasn’t the oil level, it took me two seconds of googling to find out how to do it after I told myself I shouldn’t be driving a car as PP decided to point out so helpfully

@Tree543 thanks for your reply

Is it a turbo? Mine had exactly the same problem, and it turned out the turbo hose had come unattached. Called the AA out and he fixed it in about 5 minutes. Hopefully it's not your clutch!

Sorry I'd read all your replies but missed the one where you said it's not a turbo

I had this and it just needed the air filter changed.

After many hours of tests and checks and road tests there’s nothing they can find wrong with it, in a few months if it persists I’ll get my trusted family mechanic (down south - 4 hour drive) to look at it but who knows

Presumably they've reset it and it's running fine? I go back to one option in my first answer then and it was just to software having a moment.