Loss Of Power

Can someone please help,
Weve just bought a 1999 citroen xsara westcoast 1.4i and for some reason, not all the time when your driving along the car will lose power and splutter for a few seconds then will be fine for a while. Could be 5 minutes or a few days then will play up again.

Manythanks
wayne and Lisa

Hi wayneandlisa.
Have you still got the problmem with your Xsara? We have a 1998 1.8i and had similar problem where the thing wouldn't run at all, I could only drive it downhill and slowly, it wouldn't even climb my workshop ramps.
I had remembered the previous owner saying there was an ECU problem once and the mechanic just disconnected the battery and let it sit for a while, reconnected and away it went. I tried this, first I only left it for a coupel of minutes and no glory. The second time I disconnected it and left it alone for 1/2 hour(like a naughty kid:grinno: ) and low and behold(touch wood) my wife says the car is better than it ahs been for weeks. I did also change the O2 sensor.
Good luck.
Chris (in OZ)

Hi i also have a 1.4 westcoast displaying the same faults also after mine has randomlly lost power for a few seconds when you stop at say a roundabout the idle is all over the place nearly stalling please advise