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Originally Posted by Overdrive
Unfortunately there could be a dozen different reasons why a car feels off on any given day. Weather is certainly a factor, as many have mentioned, and probably the most easily forgotten one. There's also your air filter, fuel filter, or any other number of consumable things involved in your running process. You could get as many different answers as people you ask. My thoughts went to possibly getting a bad batch of fuel, which is always a possibility even from known brands that are supposed to be higher quality. And there's no remedy for that except to run through the tank and hope the next fill isn't the same or worse.
As long as it's not a gross loss of pep, I wouldn't sweat it or think the car's getting old already at 30k. Heck, @ Tcoat is in the six-figure mileage club and (I think?) still even on his original spark plugs. |
Yep. Original plugs and still zero indication of a power drop.
I have the TRD drop in filter and clean it about every two months or so. It has been almost plugged solid on occasion and I really hadn't noticed any serious drop in power. Maybe just a slight reduction in throttle response but nothing that worried me enough to check earlier than I had planned.
These cars are so tightly monitored that I would think any fuel filter issues would throw a CEL if it was enough to impact driving but since I have never seen a CEL for any reason on mine I can't be sure.
A mildly bad batch of fuel could certainly be part of it and that issue I did have once. If that was the case though it would run the same all day and not well in the morning and worse in the afternoon.
I know on the very rare occasions we get a really hot and humid day I can notice a slight decrease in "pep" but I have had that with other cars in the past so I was aware of what was going on. My old Talon TSi HATED hot humid weather and had a significant decrease in power whenever it went over 80 outside.