Griffith intermittent misfire/conking out - what could it be

[saxon]

Blitzracing,

Interesting but one would have hoped then that both Fernhurst TVR and APM Automotive would have had suitable fault code readers and employed them to diagnose the problem rather than me having to suffer 10 years of not being able to enjoy the car! The car went back and forth to Fernhurst over several years as I tried to get top the bottom of it and I paid some very large invoices there during the 24 years I used them for servicing. Very friendly and helpful people but one has to question their engineering.

Anyway happily it's all fixed now thanks to finding a really good automotive engineer who intelligently diagnosed and resolved the issue. He didn't need to emply a fault code reader actually but found it by deduction and moving things around pretty obvious the engine instantly hiccuped when he moved that MAF cable.

Saxon

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saxon said:

Does anybody know who took that picture and how I might go about getting a poster of it? It also features in Roger Shackleton's book on the Griffith.

Saxon

Edited by saxon on Thursday 28th May 08:37

No idea on your picture question, but it is from the factory Griff 500 sales brochure from the late 90's.

[blitzracing]

saxon said:

Blitzracing,

Interesting but one would have hoped then that both Fernhurst TVR and APM Automotive would have had suitable fault code readers and employed them to diagnose the problem rather than me having to suffer 10 years of not being able to enjoy the car! The car went back and forth to Fernhurst over several years as I tried to get top the bottom of it and I paid some very large invoices there during the 24 years I used them for servicing. Very friendly and helpful people but one has to question their engineering.

Anyway happily it's all fixed now thanks to finding a really good automotive engineer who intelligently diagnosed and resolved the issue. He didn't need to emply a fault code reader actually but found it by deduction and moving things around pretty obvious the engine instantly hiccuped when he moved that MAF cable.

Saxon

Ive not kept track of what TVR dealers I've sold RoverGauge cables to, but pre RoverGauge and ECUmate (now out of production) the ECU diagnostic stuff was very expensive and not much use so you can forgive dealers for not having them. No excuse now though.