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Lack of power with a Nissan Qashqai - any ideas?

Car lacks power when climbing a hill - plenty of revs but no power. In addition on a couple occasions car has slipped out of cruise when climbing gradient

Asked on 30 July 2012 by JKB

Answered by Honest John

Presumably manual? This doesn't have a lot of power anyway and is quite low geared. I wonder if the clutch has failed and is slipping.

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