No power after 3000rpm

[Jamston39]

Just tried to boot the car today and won't go past 3000rpm just seems to hit a wall but change gear and goes again to the 3000rpm any ideas what it could be

[Roscoe]

Sounds like limp home mode, especially if it wont rev past 3k in neutral.

[smoggie]

I'm local to you if you need a code reader, in Billingham

[Critch]

Any lights on?

[Jamston39]

No lights on and nothing on the codes will try reving it in neutral now

[Jamston39]

Will go to 4000 in neutral

[Critch]

You need it on diagnostics to view data before doing much else

Quick check would be check all vac pipes

[Teapot]

Will go to 4000 in neutral

Does sound rather like one of the limp-mode limiters (there are two - a torque limiter and an IQ limiter and depending on the nature of the fault, one or both will be applied).

It will allow up to about 3800rpm but torque limit drops significantly after 3000rpm hence in neutral it will reach nearly 4000rpm but under load it won't go much over 3000rpm.

Like Critch says - need to get a fault code and ideally live data recording too in order to diagnose properly.

[stuartbat]

when I had my turbo I had this problem once it turned out to be the MAF that went faulty hth

[Jamston39]

Checked again still no codes even live but abs light came on restarted car and gone off and power back but can't see why it was on at start up