Hi guys,
Me again with the ongoing problem :-P
I Sorted the vacuum leak, twas the injector seals! anyway, I still have problems, Symes popped over to have a look and discovered a leaky exhaust! More on this in a Mo.
When the car starts it runs lumpy but then sometimes it can tick over nicely just over 500RPM's. Driving it, well, you can accelerate away and it will change gear fine but then it seems to hold back, not as bad as last week when it was like switching the ignition off and then back on whilst driving.
Now it just holds back usually around 2000RPMs. You can accelerate through it though but then it does it again, since last week, I havent used it on the main roads but it would go about 50MPH flat out! driven too hard it would bang and go into safe mode.
Now back to Symes, He checked all Electrical connections and cleaned up the Throttle body including a blocked breather pipe. Now, the exhaust is blowing on the bendy join after the CAT and I will be replacing the pipe, this will mean I have a new CAT and probably get new LAMBAs. I have been reading up on symptons of the CAT and it ticks many boxes, the bad running, high use of petrol, lacking power on hills (on the level in my case)
The EML is on, though I attempted to do the pedal trick but it did not work, however the EML went out, but the spanner light came on, this morning the EML came back on! I have a friend coming during the week with a machine capable of live readings. the pedal test as I say doesnt work nor does the paper clip test, Symes tried both. So, no codes as yet.
On the plus side, I'm not ready to scrap her yet
Your views?
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Topic: Bad running (Electrical or Mechanical) (Read 4790 times)