totalE
09-01-2011, 10:34 PM
recently bought an L reg 2.0 16v coupe.
been loving it so far but now having a wee issue with it tho.
was out in it last night and all was going great untill i needed soem fuel.
went to the shell, and stuck a ten spot of vpower in it, just to see me thru the rest of then night, didn't even get a mile up the road and it cut out on me, no power at all , but stamp the foot to the floor and it will eventually start revving, and away you can go.
nursed it down to the shed and had a poke about, and noticed a couple of bits n peices, but nothing drastic, most notably that no3 spark plug was VERY sooted up.
left it at the shed and borrowed another car to finish my deliveries.
went to it this morning, and it fired first turn of the key, and ran and drove perfect, so took a drive to the garage to get fags, got to the garage fine, no issues, left it running, came back out and it was still idling perfect, then as soon as i went to pull away, bang away it went again, axact same thing, cutting out, idling badly, stamp the foot down and it revs up and you can go.
gave it a good going over, cleaned all the spark plugs, checked for electrical connectors, vacuum hoses, blah blah usual suspects, and all checks out ok.
sooooo, the conclusion i can draw ATM is that it must be bad fuel, or doesn't like vpower, either way tomorrow i'll get a new set of sparkers, since the ones in it are indeed well past it, a new fuel filter and drain the tank, flush the lines and ply it with new fuel and see how i go from there.
been loving it so far but now having a wee issue with it tho.
was out in it last night and all was going great untill i needed soem fuel.
went to the shell, and stuck a ten spot of vpower in it, just to see me thru the rest of then night, didn't even get a mile up the road and it cut out on me, no power at all , but stamp the foot to the floor and it will eventually start revving, and away you can go.
nursed it down to the shed and had a poke about, and noticed a couple of bits n peices, but nothing drastic, most notably that no3 spark plug was VERY sooted up.
left it at the shed and borrowed another car to finish my deliveries.
went to it this morning, and it fired first turn of the key, and ran and drove perfect, so took a drive to the garage to get fags, got to the garage fine, no issues, left it running, came back out and it was still idling perfect, then as soon as i went to pull away, bang away it went again, axact same thing, cutting out, idling badly, stamp the foot down and it revs up and you can go.
gave it a good going over, cleaned all the spark plugs, checked for electrical connectors, vacuum hoses, blah blah usual suspects, and all checks out ok.
sooooo, the conclusion i can draw ATM is that it must be bad fuel, or doesn't like vpower, either way tomorrow i'll get a new set of sparkers, since the ones in it are indeed well past it, a new fuel filter and drain the tank, flush the lines and ply it with new fuel and see how i go from there.