Car is holding back?

When I take my foot off the pedal the car feels like its decelarating harder than it should do (like the brakes are stuck on). Had the brakes checked but nothing and to be honest if its out of gear it free wheels fine so any ideas?
Car has been de-catted but felt the same before anyway and has no other mods.

steve51 wrote:

When I take my foot off the pedal the car feels like its decelarating harder than it should do (like the brakes are stuck on). Had the brakes checked but nothing and to be honest if its out of gear it free wheels fine so any ideas?
Car has been de-catted but felt the same before anyway and has no other mods.

im abit confused as to why you think you have a problem?

Does it have a standard flywheel? You can get the feeling of hard deceleration from having a very light flywheel fitted.

Just a standard flywheel nothing changed apart from de-cat and andy It feels like it would if the car was full of people and yes I have do have some poundage myself but its just something i can feel , must admit ive just been out in the car and acceleration feels a bit off both off and on boost

has this problem just started ?

or has it been there from day one?

started a couple of weeks but just been thinkin that maybe its worse when the car warms up because It never seems to bother me first thing in the morning

what does it feel like free wheeling "in gear" with clutch fully depressed?

Andy

feel it mainly when changing gear - when clutch is depressed its ok then starts again

Has it had the gearbox or rear diff changed at any time?

Not that i know about but only had it a few months

sounds like could possibly be something up with transmission, its the only explanation i can think of, check that the code on your gearbox matches the chasis tag, the only way to check ratio of diff is to strip it, just thinkin poss at some time someones changed box or rear diff

Will do andy- but another silly question, could oil (engine,g/box/transmission) have any sort of effect if its old because ive went through the service history and not sure now when any of these done, previous owner said just before i bought it the engine oil was changed but no reciept and the others ive got nothing for?

Andy K wrote:

sounds like could possibly be something up with transmission, its the only explanation i can think of, check that the code on your gearbox matches the chasis tag, the only way to check ratio of diff is to strip it, just thinkin poss at some time someones changed box or rear diff

That is exactly what I was thinking, diff/gearbox mismatch