Auto-box behaving like a petulant toddler with a shotgun.
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So.
I now have a 2001 Golf 2.0 Cab, AUTO which was given to me because the owner couldn't be arsed with it.

Drives ok... but I was told about this "power loss" thing that I mentioned in THIS THREAD > http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
However, I don't think it's the head gasket - although apparently it IS using water a bit.
It SEEMS like the auto doesn't shift down when you floor it, instead, it waits for the revs to slowly get up to speed.
That's in "D".
If you put it in "3" or "2" it takes off briskly and then gets stuck at about 50 or 60 respectively.
Any idea?
Right: t

Under the accelerator is just a plastic disc that does nothing at all (it seems).
On another forum I found a whole thing about resetting the computer's memory of the throttle angle. Did it. Seemed possibly different for a few minutes. Then went back to being a slugy berk.
Something to do with it needing a resistor wire.
Hammer?
Gorvid said:
Right: t
t update.
Under the accelerator is just a plastic disc that does nothing at all (it seems).
On another forum I found a whole thing about resetting the computer's memory of the throttle angle. Did it. Seemed possibly different for a few minutes. Then went back to being a slugy berk.
Something to do with it needing a resistor wire.
Hammer?
You've no idea how to use a hammer, you amateur, you'll probably neuter yourself. 
Under the accelerator is just a plastic disc that does nothing at all (it seems).
On another forum I found a whole thing about resetting the computer's memory of the throttle angle. Did it. Seemed possibly different for a few minutes. Then went back to being a slugy berk.
Something to do with it needing a resistor wire.
Hammer?
I'll come round with my hammer and show you how its done. Assuming you don't actually like the car...
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