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2017 Chevy Cruze rs premier, loss of power, rough idle, kinda shaky when accelerating?

  

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So I have 53,000 miles and I’ve had the car 2 years. I’ve had the resonator and the muffler deleted and piped all the way back. Nothing was done to the cat. It’s the 1.4l turbo so I wasn’t worried about loosing and pressure. It’s been 6 months since and my car now feels horrible taking off and super slow. At high rpm it feels fine. I changed the ignition coils and spark plugs with genuine gm. Cleaned the throttle body and maf sensor. It’s been running like this for a month or 2. Just put a full k&n 69 series on it to gain blow off noise. Started running a little worse after. I reset the ecu so my fuel trims could adjust and it’s still doing it. Hooke a solus snap on scanner to it and I have no codes and no pending codes. And I checked idle and 2500rpm live data. Boost pressure at idle is 14.3 and 15 when revved. Maf is at 5gs idle and 15 at 2500 but when I kick it down hard and let off it’s a 30 for a split second. Map (inhg) is between 13-15 at idle and when I kick it hard it goes to 30 but when I hold at 2500 it drops to 12.3 and when I let off it dips to 5. Not sure what to do now other than take car to a shop and have a diagnosis done. Upset because I can fix most stuff by myself but I don’t know what the problem is. Any help. Also I run 93 premium only and the other day I filled up and i started smelling bleach/hair dye/ chlorine from the exhaust tip. No oil leaks I can see. There’s a couple of exhaust leaks but they are after the last cat probably a foot from the tip where the welds weren’t perfect. Also at idle it sits at 500-700 and it steady then all of a sudden it goes up to 1000 and then drops immediately to 200-300 almost dies and then steady a out again at 750....


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Possibilities: PCV Valve failure, intake manifold cracks or defects, defective throttle body control module. Also, use, if you can, a second OBD2 scanner.

And, don't light the parts cannon until you get an unshakable diagnosis.

Given all the money already spent, time to take it to an honest diagnostics shop.

Good luck.


Thank you for your quick response. I will check those issue. And you’re correct I don’t want to spend any money until I figure out what’s wrong. I did that to a civic once and spent 1000 dollars for an alignment because I thought my suspension was broken. I’ve heard about the 1st generation Cruzes having pcv problems so I hope it’s something as small and quick as that. I appreciate it!


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