McKinley60
28-04-2009, 10:49 AM
Hi Folks
My 1996 2.5tdi 140 developed a light ticking noise while under load (and occasionally tickover) some while ago. It's my wife's car, so I'm not as on-the-case as I ought to be, but it's got noticeably worse - I've driven it this morning and, after a short rip of two or three miles, I stopped for ten minutes - on attempting to restart, it fired up OK, but would then sit at a constant 1500rpm or thereabouts and would NOT respond in any way to throttle, just kick out clouds of smoke and tick. Hmmmmm..... tried to restart a few times, but symptoms remained. Being parked on a hill, I rolled off downwards in second and, after a couple of hundred metres, it cleared... once again responding to throttle and behaving normally. No problem with power, response, etc -- I drove 40 miles and it's fine.
Any ideas?
Russell
My 1996 2.5tdi 140 developed a light ticking noise while under load (and occasionally tickover) some while ago. It's my wife's car, so I'm not as on-the-case as I ought to be, but it's got noticeably worse - I've driven it this morning and, after a short rip of two or three miles, I stopped for ten minutes - on attempting to restart, it fired up OK, but would then sit at a constant 1500rpm or thereabouts and would NOT respond in any way to throttle, just kick out clouds of smoke and tick. Hmmmmm..... tried to restart a few times, but symptoms remained. Being parked on a hill, I rolled off downwards in second and, after a couple of hundred metres, it cleared... once again responding to throttle and behaving normally. No problem with power, response, etc -- I drove 40 miles and it's fine.
Any ideas?
Russell