Engine Misfiring?
Discussion
Hi all,
Yet another thing has gone wrong with my car. Honestly I reckon I have been fed a real bummer with it. Anyway, onwards.
I was driving my car to work last night, and when I went under 10 MPH, then coolant light came on. I ignored it as the temp was fine, and I was only 5 mins away from work. So, I got to work, the car was fine, locked her up and did my 10 hour shift.
When I got back in the car, the engine idled at 1400RPM as opposed to 8-900 which it normally does, and was really really 'jerky' it almost felt like I had a two stroke under the hood.
Anything below 3000 revs forced the car to jerk, which in traffic isn't nice. I pretty much had to throttle up to 3000 revs and slip the clutch, due to the fact it was pouring with rain, the slip soon became a dump, which aint exactly safe. The coolant light remained permanently on.
I've left the car at home at the moment, just so as I don't want to toast it anymore.
I have checked the coolant, and disconnected/reconnected the battery - I believe this car has a 'self learning' ECU, so I thought maybe a reset would do it some good. Nope.
Anyone got any ideas what it could be?
Yet another thing has gone wrong with my car. Honestly I reckon I have been fed a real bummer with it. Anyway, onwards.
I was driving my car to work last night, and when I went under 10 MPH, then coolant light came on. I ignored it as the temp was fine, and I was only 5 mins away from work. So, I got to work, the car was fine, locked her up and did my 10 hour shift.
When I got back in the car, the engine idled at 1400RPM as opposed to 8-900 which it normally does, and was really really 'jerky' it almost felt like I had a two stroke under the hood.
Anything below 3000 revs forced the car to jerk, which in traffic isn't nice. I pretty much had to throttle up to 3000 revs and slip the clutch, due to the fact it was pouring with rain, the slip soon became a dump, which aint exactly safe. The coolant light remained permanently on.
I've left the car at home at the moment, just so as I don't want to toast it anymore.
I have checked the coolant, and disconnected/reconnected the battery - I believe this car has a 'self learning' ECU, so I thought maybe a reset would do it some good. Nope.
Anyone got any ideas what it could be?
See if the manual tells you what the coolant light means. If it's telling you the coolant is too hot, and you know the engine isn't overheating, it could be the temp sender (or wiring to it) has failed. If the ECU thought the engine was very cold it would add lots of excess fuel, which on a hot engine could lead to a misfire and poor running. Temp senders are usually cheap and easy to replace but you do need to find it to test/replace it.
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