S2 Elise Trouble Starting When Warm?
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Hi guys, posting for a friend wot doesn't have a PH account.
I had a call from him the other week to say he was stranded round the corner and needed a hand as his car wouldn't start. He has an S2 Elise Type 23 with approx 80k miles. He'd driven home from work and popped into a shop on the way home and the car wouldn't then restart. By the time I got there it had probably sat for around 45 mins and low and behold, it fired up first time! When we got it back to his house, it again wouldn't start, however. You turn the key, it catches and then pretty much immediately dies. Adding a little throttle to help it along does nothing. It therefore seems to just be when the engine is warm-ish or hot that there's an issue.
Upon enquiring, it emerged that it hadn't been serviced for 5 or 6 years!
In that time it's probably only done 10k miles or so, but I told him to get it done immediately. He took it to a local place and they've carried out a full service, fitted a new exhaust (it was knackered apparently) and changed the leads and plugs. This has cost £1k, but the starting problem persists. The garage want to replace the fuel pump to the tune of another £1k as they think this could be the problem. Obviously he wants to be reasonably sure that the fuel pump may indeed be the cause, but he's not overly confident that garage are certain themselves.
Anyone have any ideas? Does a fuel pump sound plausible or is there a common issue with the K-series (apart from that one
) that the garage have missed?
Many thanks.
I had a call from him the other week to say he was stranded round the corner and needed a hand as his car wouldn't start. He has an S2 Elise Type 23 with approx 80k miles. He'd driven home from work and popped into a shop on the way home and the car wouldn't then restart. By the time I got there it had probably sat for around 45 mins and low and behold, it fired up first time! When we got it back to his house, it again wouldn't start, however. You turn the key, it catches and then pretty much immediately dies. Adding a little throttle to help it along does nothing. It therefore seems to just be when the engine is warm-ish or hot that there's an issue.
Upon enquiring, it emerged that it hadn't been serviced for 5 or 6 years!
In that time it's probably only done 10k miles or so, but I told him to get it done immediately. He took it to a local place and they've carried out a full service, fitted a new exhaust (it was knackered apparently) and changed the leads and plugs. This has cost £1k, but the starting problem persists. The garage want to replace the fuel pump to the tune of another £1k as they think this could be the problem. Obviously he wants to be reasonably sure that the fuel pump may indeed be the cause, but he's not overly confident that garage are certain themselves.Anyone have any ideas? Does a fuel pump sound plausible or is there a common issue with the K-series (apart from that one
) that the garage have missed?Many thanks.
Edited by David87 on Sunday 8th October 20:44
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