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Why is my Ford Fiesta struggling to get up to speed?
My P-reg Ford Fiesta Flight 1.3 is struggling to get up to speed. It can struggle one day and then be fine the next.
Asked on 21 August 2010 by chelle1989
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There's a narrow pipe to the fuel injection system that gets blocked with oil sludge and causes this.
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