Hey everyone,
Over the past few weeks I have experienced this weird sudden juddery loss of power while under hard/medium acceleration only way I can think to explain this is imagine quickly flicking a light switch off and back on a couple times, my first thought was maybe the traction control being overly sensitive but didnt notice any light on the dash. Anyway it wasnt happening everyday so I had rang the garage to get the car booked in on the 20th of December.
Unfortunately while driving home on the 17th of December from work as I drove up the dual carriageway I had the same juddery loss of power followed by a quick sudden crunchy noise from the front end immediately followed by loss of power as the revs slowly dropped, as I came to a stop the engine turned off showing check abs fault? and would only make a clicking sound while trying to restart. So I sit there hazards on and ring the hyundai roadside assistence who arrived in 15 minutes lovelly. Attempted to restart the car 5 minutes later only to cause a huge cloud of white smoke from the exhuast as the engine tried to restart but never succeeded.
Inspection under the bonnett the coolent was non existent not even a drop which im sure was topped up. All the temperatures were fine before this happened oil and coolent temps.
The car is now sat outside Hyundai's garage waiting for inspection Monday. The AA guy suggested the head gasket had gone because the oil dipstick was the wrong colour and not the consistency oil should be as if mixed with the coolent.
Info on the car is a 2019 i30n, 17,000 miles, hasn't missed a service and recently had the bigger service job 3-4 months ago
Will update soon, any suggestions?
Over the past few weeks I have experienced this weird sudden juddery loss of power while under hard/medium acceleration only way I can think to explain this is imagine quickly flicking a light switch off and back on a couple times, my first thought was maybe the traction control being overly sensitive but didnt notice any light on the dash. Anyway it wasnt happening everyday so I had rang the garage to get the car booked in on the 20th of December.
Unfortunately while driving home on the 17th of December from work as I drove up the dual carriageway I had the same juddery loss of power followed by a quick sudden crunchy noise from the front end immediately followed by loss of power as the revs slowly dropped, as I came to a stop the engine turned off showing check abs fault? and would only make a clicking sound while trying to restart. So I sit there hazards on and ring the hyundai roadside assistence who arrived in 15 minutes lovelly. Attempted to restart the car 5 minutes later only to cause a huge cloud of white smoke from the exhuast as the engine tried to restart but never succeeded.
Inspection under the bonnett the coolent was non existent not even a drop which im sure was topped up. All the temperatures were fine before this happened oil and coolent temps.
The car is now sat outside Hyundai's garage waiting for inspection Monday. The AA guy suggested the head gasket had gone because the oil dipstick was the wrong colour and not the consistency oil should be as if mixed with the coolent.
Info on the car is a 2019 i30n, 17,000 miles, hasn't missed a service and recently had the bigger service job 3-4 months ago
Will update soon, any suggestions?
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