smudge_don
Registered User
I'm bored at work, so i thought i'd update people on here of my activity over the last month or so
As some of you know NH'guru'N has been doing some major work on my car, and a top job he's done too! As always!! Bi xenons fitted, auto levelling system, auto lights, auto wipers, auto dimming rear and side view mirrors, folding mirror, washer jet system just to name a few things!!!
Picked the car up from his on Tuesday 29th June, all was groovy apart from 0 fuel. So i stuck some in, and was on my merry way
Car shuddered to a halt on a busy A road at around 10.30pm, luckily it wasn't busy at this time, and i was only about 5 miles or so from NHN's house. So he kindly came out to help, and we were trying all sorts of thing on the roadside to get her going again until about 1am. The car kept turning over, but didn't want to start
Finally, we admitted defeat and decided to get some rest, pushing the car off the road behind a big hedge. I decided to stay with the car, and NHN went home for some well earned rest
7am, he came back and we tried to start her up, and she was starting to kick in despite the battery going flat. So we stuck the jumpers on, and vrooom! She started up 1st time.....very odd
So we did some testing for a few hours, and all was well....
Made the 30miles journey home no problem, and drove the car around to several appointments for work during the day.
On the way home from work, she cut out again at a busy roundabout
people were not pleased, but luckily 2 guys helped me push her aside to a bus stop where the AA came out to have a look.
All the fuel lines were working, and the electrics were fine with air going through the pipes as well. He said he couldn't figure it out and towed me home
NHN was over at the weekend to have another play, and we're 99% sure it the injector on cylinder no.4! If you disconnect it, she fires up on 3 cylinders, but as soon as injector 4 is plugged back in, it just turns over with no start up. So i shelled out a few hundred for a new injector, and she's getting towed to the local garage this evening to have that injector replaced
hopefully this will fix the problem
When we were tinkering with it on Sunday, the fuel that came out of the lines was black. So i can only assume that some crap got dragged through the system and blocked that injector? I dunno
Hopefully tomorrow i will have her back in full working condition, after nearly 3 weeks of being off the road
I'll keep you updated
As some of you know NH'guru'N has been doing some major work on my car, and a top job he's done too! As always!! Bi xenons fitted, auto levelling system, auto lights, auto wipers, auto dimming rear and side view mirrors, folding mirror, washer jet system just to name a few things!!!
Picked the car up from his on Tuesday 29th June, all was groovy apart from 0 fuel. So i stuck some in, and was on my merry way
Car shuddered to a halt on a busy A road at around 10.30pm, luckily it wasn't busy at this time, and i was only about 5 miles or so from NHN's house. So he kindly came out to help, and we were trying all sorts of thing on the roadside to get her going again until about 1am. The car kept turning over, but didn't want to start
Finally, we admitted defeat and decided to get some rest, pushing the car off the road behind a big hedge. I decided to stay with the car, and NHN went home for some well earned rest
7am, he came back and we tried to start her up, and she was starting to kick in despite the battery going flat. So we stuck the jumpers on, and vrooom! She started up 1st time.....very odd
So we did some testing for a few hours, and all was well....
Made the 30miles journey home no problem, and drove the car around to several appointments for work during the day.
On the way home from work, she cut out again at a busy roundabout
people were not pleased, but luckily 2 guys helped me push her aside to a bus stop where the AA came out to have a look.All the fuel lines were working, and the electrics were fine with air going through the pipes as well. He said he couldn't figure it out and towed me home
NHN was over at the weekend to have another play, and we're 99% sure it the injector on cylinder no.4! If you disconnect it, she fires up on 3 cylinders, but as soon as injector 4 is plugged back in, it just turns over with no start up. So i shelled out a few hundred for a new injector, and she's getting towed to the local garage this evening to have that injector replaced
hopefully this will fix the problemWhen we were tinkering with it on Sunday, the fuel that came out of the lines was black. So i can only assume that some crap got dragged through the system and blocked that injector? I dunno
Hopefully tomorrow i will have her back in full working condition, after nearly 3 weeks of being off the road
I'll keep you updated
