jrneedo 
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Registered: 10th Oct 07
 Location: Sheffield 
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My corsa keeps losing power when i have my foot on the gas E.G accelarating then it'll lose power then come back on again, im starting to smell petrol and its drank £20 o petrol on 90 miles when it did 230 to £25 last week?? 
any help will be great 
thanks 
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tom_simes 
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What engine?
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jrneedo 
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1.0 12v 1999
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Envoy Ash 
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my 1.2 16v does that.could also do with sum help!!!
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jrneedo 
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was talkin to my brother and he had same problem with his 1.4 16v sport but more drastic...he said his fuel pump had come free. where abouts is the fuel pump?
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Envoy Ash 
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well my problem only started hapening when i put redex thru
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jrneedo 
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thats exactly what happened to his!? 
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luke85 
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Fuel pump is inside the tank, under the back seat of the car
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Superlite Ltd. 
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I'd start by checking EGR and AFM for that one  
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N3CRO 
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Sounds like th AFM. My 12v did just that when the AFM had snuffed it.
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