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Need ideas guys.
My H-reg Rover 216 GTI (which I only just bought!) is having trouble.
There's been a couple of occassions now that it's misfired on a single cylinder under power, and sometimes it makes wierd, diesel-clatter noises (the noises and the power loss never coincide though).
I'm frequently getting the 'CHECK ENGINE' light on the dash, mostly at sustained high speed, but sometimes immediately on startup.
Switching off and restarting turns off the engine warning light, and it usually stays off, unless I'm cruising above 60, in which case it returns within a mile.
I need to do some fairly heavy motorway driving in it over the next few months so any help would be much appreciated!!!
Disclaimer : I'm moving house at the min so I haven't had time to buy a Haynes manual.
Thanks in advance!
Al.
My H-reg Rover 216 GTI (which I only just bought!) is having trouble.
There's been a couple of occassions now that it's misfired on a single cylinder under power, and sometimes it makes wierd, diesel-clatter noises (the noises and the power loss never coincide though).
I'm frequently getting the 'CHECK ENGINE' light on the dash, mostly at sustained high speed, but sometimes immediately on startup.
Switching off and restarting turns off the engine warning light, and it usually stays off, unless I'm cruising above 60, in which case it returns within a mile.
I need to do some fairly heavy motorway driving in it over the next few months so any help would be much appreciated!!!
Disclaimer : I'm moving house at the min so I haven't had time to buy a Haynes manual.
Thanks in advance!
Al.
Hi guys, sorry I've not replied before now, work's been hell.
I really needed the car to be back on the road for two days after it broke down, and as I was moving house I didn't have much time to fix it myself.
A quick check of the dizzy cap and rotor showed them to be pretty much dead, so I replaced them, but that didn't help. On the test drive it broke down completely and wouldn't go for about 10 mins.
I limped it home, then up to Honda in the morning (it is the honda engine by the way - identical to my housemates' CRX).
Turned out it was the sensor gear in the Distributor housing; (first thing you warned me about Deltaf!) sorted at a cost of £310.56.
That was over a 3rd of the value of the car.
If I didn't need it so bad I'd have sold it. Still I don't have much luck with cars so it wasn't much of a suprise.
I'm now looking into buying a bike (for backup) as the two hour train journeys to work (25mins by car) nearly killed me.
Cheers for your help anyway guys.
Al.
Edited to add: They charged me £35 + vat for the info you gave me there Deltaf, curse my dead broadband connection!!!
p.s, the oil level is well up and the oil is only 3000 miles old.
Since the sensors were replaced the noise hasn't been repeated.
The car also pulls from lower revs, though the kick from the second cam seems to be at 4,000rpm now, instead of 3,500 before.
This is the really wierd bit; the garage cleaned my allows for me, and wiped the bonnet. Which is odd. I thought they'd either clean it or not clean it, not do one pannel and the wheels. It's not like there's any fluid you could spill on the bonnet while changing the bits anyway....
>> Edited by Alan420 on Monday 9th June 14:53
I really needed the car to be back on the road for two days after it broke down, and as I was moving house I didn't have much time to fix it myself.
A quick check of the dizzy cap and rotor showed them to be pretty much dead, so I replaced them, but that didn't help. On the test drive it broke down completely and wouldn't go for about 10 mins.
I limped it home, then up to Honda in the morning (it is the honda engine by the way - identical to my housemates' CRX).
Turned out it was the sensor gear in the Distributor housing; (first thing you warned me about Deltaf!) sorted at a cost of £310.56.
That was over a 3rd of the value of the car.
If I didn't need it so bad I'd have sold it. Still I don't have much luck with cars so it wasn't much of a suprise. I'm now looking into buying a bike (for backup) as the two hour train journeys to work (25mins by car) nearly killed me.
Cheers for your help anyway guys.
Al.
Edited to add: They charged me £35 + vat for the info you gave me there Deltaf, curse my dead broadband connection!!!
p.s, the oil level is well up and the oil is only 3000 miles old.
Since the sensors were replaced the noise hasn't been repeated.
The car also pulls from lower revs, though the kick from the second cam seems to be at 4,000rpm now, instead of 3,500 before.
This is the really wierd bit; the garage cleaned my allows for me, and wiped the bonnet. Which is odd. I thought they'd either clean it or not clean it, not do one pannel and the wheels. It's not like there's any fluid you could spill on the bonnet while changing the bits anyway....
>> Edited by Alan420 on Monday 9th June 14:53
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