nicola-bond
17-02-2010, 10:15 PM
:(Hello everyone. I'm new and hope someone can help me.
For the past couple of weeks my car has had what we thought at first was a misfire. The car would drive fine then the rev counter would drop to zero for a second, the car would jerk then it would run ok. This happened a couple of times and my first thought was "bad fuel". So i booked it in for a full service which happened yesterday. Before we even got it to the garage; over the weekend the car cut out on me a couple of times then wouldnt start. Leave it for a couple of minutes and the car starts no problem. The worst was when the rev counter dropped ON THE MOTORWAY and didnt come back up for quite a few seconds then came normal. I decided to pull off at the next junction to get help and got to the top of the slip road and the car cut out and would not start at all. We had to pulled off the slip road by highways patrol. The little man from green flag strongly suspected it is fuel system related as it seems to be being starved of fuel. The car started for him and he followed me safely home although it did splutter a few times.
The car was serviced yesterday. Oil change, all filters including fuel and air changed as we thought this may have been part of the problem. Vacume pipes changed. Garage had left the car running and it hadnt cut out (but it had when we told them about the problem and they were checking it out initially). We drove the car away this evening and got a mile down the road and the spluttering and loss of revs started again (twice on the way home). The garage said that they had seen fuel filters much worse when changed.
Can anyone please suggest anything else that may be the problem? Should i be automatically replacing the fuel pump here or is there something else that could be causing the problem?? (fuel pump relay??) This isnt a constant problem - some days the car drives fine and on a run we havent had a problem - yet. But the problem has been getting steadily worse.
I have 2 very small children and i'm terrified to drive the car at the moment in case it breaks down on me when I am on my own with the kids.
Please help - any suggestions welcome as I dont know what to do..
Thanks
Nicola
For the past couple of weeks my car has had what we thought at first was a misfire. The car would drive fine then the rev counter would drop to zero for a second, the car would jerk then it would run ok. This happened a couple of times and my first thought was "bad fuel". So i booked it in for a full service which happened yesterday. Before we even got it to the garage; over the weekend the car cut out on me a couple of times then wouldnt start. Leave it for a couple of minutes and the car starts no problem. The worst was when the rev counter dropped ON THE MOTORWAY and didnt come back up for quite a few seconds then came normal. I decided to pull off at the next junction to get help and got to the top of the slip road and the car cut out and would not start at all. We had to pulled off the slip road by highways patrol. The little man from green flag strongly suspected it is fuel system related as it seems to be being starved of fuel. The car started for him and he followed me safely home although it did splutter a few times.
The car was serviced yesterday. Oil change, all filters including fuel and air changed as we thought this may have been part of the problem. Vacume pipes changed. Garage had left the car running and it hadnt cut out (but it had when we told them about the problem and they were checking it out initially). We drove the car away this evening and got a mile down the road and the spluttering and loss of revs started again (twice on the way home). The garage said that they had seen fuel filters much worse when changed.
Can anyone please suggest anything else that may be the problem? Should i be automatically replacing the fuel pump here or is there something else that could be causing the problem?? (fuel pump relay??) This isnt a constant problem - some days the car drives fine and on a run we havent had a problem - yet. But the problem has been getting steadily worse.
I have 2 very small children and i'm terrified to drive the car at the moment in case it breaks down on me when I am on my own with the kids.
Please help - any suggestions welcome as I dont know what to do..
Thanks
Nicola