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[Arpy]

I was on a couple of weeks ago regarding misfire and losing coolant.
Diagnosed ignition4 at fault changed plugs and coil pack still no joy.
Mechanic comes sees smoke from back of engine and slight milkyness on dip stick and off he goes with car explaining head gasket .
came back 3 days later had the head skimmed compression check and 2 new valves (no3).
old gasket in bad way so accepted the 400 quid bill.
less than week later car started to misfire again and fault light on.
Took it back to garage 10 miles away, missing all the way untill I pulled into garagetypical.
he diagnosed no1 ignition fault cleared it and I left it with him.
He rang the next day telling me car running perfect. so any body out there with any ideas

[albitz]

sounds like he may have forgotten to connect something/plug something back in etc,so he found his mistake and gave you a BS reason as to what the problem was.

[davethediver]

I was on a couple of weeks ago regarding misfire and losing coolant.
Diagnosed ignition4 at fault changed plugs and coil pack still no joy.
Mechanic comes sees smoke from back of engine and slight milkyness on dip stick and off he goes with car explaining head gasket .
came back 3 days later had the head skimmed compression check and 2 new valves (no3).
old gasket in bad way so accepted the 400 quid bill.
less than week later car started to misfire again and fault light on.
Took it back to garage 10 miles away, missing all the way untill I pulled into garagetypical.
he diagnosed no1 ignition fault cleared it and I left it with him.
He rang the next day telling me car running perfect. so any body out there with any ideas

How did he clear it, did he fix something or just turn off the warning light while it was running ok :-?

[Arpy]

the car had been back with me for 6 days everytning fine and then it started on way home from work.
next morning it started with the misfire all the way to his garage untill I left it ticking over and went in to get him (therfore the fault wasnt there when he was listening)
he then put his diagnostic unit on told me the fault and reset it.

[davethediver]

So all he did was clear a stored code he didn't find out what had caused it. There may still be an underlying problem hopefully everything is ok post up anything out of the ordinary

[Arpy]

he still has the car and hasnt contacted me I have a feeling its still ok I am wondering if running low on LPG could cause a missfiring fault its the only thing that seems to be common to both misfiring conditions.but if i am right once on petrol it should run ok yes/no