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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car

« on: 25 March 2024, 08:01:50 »

C1 about £100 in 15 months so far.
Boxster about £350 in 3 years, although Ive sold the original wheels and a few other surplus parts for more than that.
The Omega Ive had about 7 years. Spent a lot of money getting it how I wanted it in the first couple of years.
I think the total spend on that (including tyres and MOT,s) is north of £3000. Which isnt a lot in that time in the grand scheme of things.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 20:05:21 »

The C1 is a Toyota Aygo with Citroen badges on. 
All the parts have the Toyota logo and part numbers on them.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 19:01:00 »

Nah, its a great little car. Cheap as chips to run and a hoot to drive in its own way. Im hoping to keep it until I retire (hopefully) at 70. 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 17:21:02 »

Who knows. Fuel system looks very basic. No schraeder valve. Pipe comes from the tank to a white plastic block (some kind of valve ?) and then to the fuel rail. If number one pot is the timing chain end (not sure) then number three is the first one supplied at the fuel rail.

You could find out! Unhook the return pipe, drain 100ml of fuel into a clear glass jar and inspect it for dirt, water or diesel. Do that a couple of times before you make any irrecoverable decisions.

There is no return pipe. 

Tank / pump is easily accessed under the rear seat. When its run almost dry again I will remove the pump and clean out the tank. If that doesnt fix it then I will load up the parts cannon - firstly with a pump, then take it from there. 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 12:33:07 »

Who knows. Fuel system looks very basic. No schraeder valve. Pipe comes from the tank to a white plastic block (some kind of valve ?) and then to the fuel rail. If number one pot is the timing chain end (not sure) then number three is the first one supplied at the fuel rail.

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.

« on: 24 March 2024, 11:30:20 »

Need a pair of string backed driving gloves. 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 11:29:22 »

Yep 
Only difference this time is that I stopped at a petrol station after 5 minutes (after which it ran fine) rather than carry on driving for miles.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 24 March 2024, 10:10:11 »

Will have a look at the fuel system later and see whats involved.
Just read the codes and it was a bit of a surprise. Low Cat efficiency. 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 23 March 2024, 23:56:43 »

Possibly. Will have a play with my Autel tomorrow. If I could get a reading now when its running ok, then do it again when fuel level is low and it misbehaves again, I might get a good idea if thats the prblem.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Varadkar resigns.

« on: 23 March 2024, 19:17:27 »

They are much much worse than Varadkar or Starmer. 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 23 March 2024, 19:12:11 »

Im leaning towards the pump too. Would like to prove it before playing parts darts, but not sure if thats reasonably possible ?

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 23 March 2024, 17:23:36 »

Havent checked code yet, but I expect cylinder 3 misfire, because it always is. Even when I swapped spark plug, injector and stick coil  from 1 to 3.
A mechanic on another forum said that he has found that cylinder related codes on these should be taken with a pinch of salt, and can be a red herring.
Think its the last one on the rail but will need to check.
Im now also wondering if it could be a sign of fuel pump starting to fail. Not sure how to diagnose for sure though.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 23 March 2024, 15:35:50 »

Not that Ive noticed.
Maybe the fresh fuel being pumped in could disperse water, which then settles at the bottom again as fuel level goes down ? 

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 23 March 2024, 14:26:44 »

Curiously, this problem reappeared this morning.
Similar conditions to last time. Around a quarter of a tank of petrol, and had been stood overnight.
Within half a mile of leaving work it started misbehaving again.
I pulled into a petrol station and put £25 in and it ran perfectly after that.
I may run it down to quarter of a tank again and then drain whats left in the tank to see if that helps.
Dont know exactly what the pump setup is, but may be sucking up water or some other crap when the fuel level gets low ?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Consumer rights after warranty has expired

« on: 22 March 2024, 23:07:10 »

let me guess. USB power socket breaking away from the motherboard ?