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Messages - Kevin Wood

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: Yesterday at 23:14:38 »
Have swapped plug, stick coil and injector between 1 and 3,  but code stayed at pot 3. The most recent incident though only threw up cat efficiency code .
Maybe because I stopped and put petrol in to bring the fuel level back up, rather than keep driving until I got home.
A mechanic on another forum claims that cylinder specific codes on these arent always accurate and can be taken with a pinch of salt ?
Will have a check of injector wiring, but if that doesnt provide any answers Im going to run the fuel level low again, and then see if I can make some progress with it.
Maybe completely empty and clean out the tank and then start fresh from there.
It isnt a huge problem so far, but pretty irritating, and may get worse until I diagnose it properly.

Which might be why we ended up replacing 2 of them on my colleague's car. And I think he'd already had the third replaced by an AA man...

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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: Yesterday at 22:43:18 »
The V6 mundano was either a 2.9 or 3.0 IIRC, so a bit disappointing.

2.5 24V Duratec V6, I believe. The godawful 12v V6s were dead and buried by then.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 26 March 2024, 07:33:24 »
Yep  :y
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.

Bear in mind that, if it detects a misfire, it'll probably shut down the affected cylinder until the next restart.

Is it still cylinder 3 that's misfiring?

I will reiterate that I recently did a lunch hour job replacing 2 out of 3 of the coil packs in a mate's one because they were intermittently tripping a misfire code (and you really notice when you're down a pot on these)!  :D

You swapped the injector before, IIRC? so if it hasn't moved it's probably the plug / coil pack or outside chance some dodgy wiring (it's French, after all), and if it has it's the injector.

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 24 March 2024, 08:16:51 »
You might find a schraeder valve on the fuel rail to connect a pressure gauge. Unless it's a GDI engine I doubt it will monitor fuel pressure.

I struggle to see why it's consistently misfiring on one cylinder if it's a fuel pressure issue, to be honest. It would affect them all (said like it's got enough of them!).

Maybe the pump is drawing air occasionally and it always gathers in the rail around one injector?

Can you look at the fuel trims using a scanner?



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General Car Chat / Re: Mark Drakeford
« on: 16 March 2024, 07:57:48 »
There's an environmental argument against such low speeds as vehicles simply aren't designed to travel so slowly... Not to mention the fact that localised pollution is increased by virtue of traffic build up.

Lundun being a case in point as localised pollution increases in direct proportion to each drop in traffic speed/flow.

Yet, some motorways have displayed the Matrix boards to reduce the speed limit to 60mph to 'improve air quality' (supposedly)...the M1 near Sheffield being one  ???
That's just ended because......work this one out.....air quality has improved. Now, has it improved because of the speed reduction, in which case why increase it again? Or is it just magic?
If they really want to "Improve" Sheffield they'll need a crane and a wrecking ball. ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: The future: EVs or ICEs?
« on: 12 March 2024, 21:59:58 »
Fair play to the marketing bods for upselling that, but surely an EV doesn't really require actual brakes given the regenerative braking power...

And presumably if you knock it into neutral it would simply roll to a stop ::)

Yes, there doesn’t appear to be an explanation why this wasn’t possible. I was bored so I looked on the iPace forum and they’re confused why this wasn’t possible as well. I’m guessing they’d blame an electrical or software fault prevented this from happening.
I’ll have to remember the old runaway story if I’m ever unlucky enough to get pulled over again. Yes officer, the pedal was stuck to the floor for a few minutes but we’re all good now. Hmm, do you think they’d believe me.  ::) ;D

Sounds like a seat-steering wheel interface issue to me. Which isn't surprising given the standard of driving these days.

Of course, if the battery can't take any charge you have no regen braking - unless you want the aforementioned inferno. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots
« on: 22 February 2024, 23:05:01 »
Can you imagine, I'd be straining that hard, I'd rip the bathroom door of its hinges!
Nothing a Naga Chicken wouldn't fix. Explosively. ;D
Tiffins used to do a cracking Chicken Naga, really tasty and spicy, but without being inedible hot.  Sadly, the others here either don't do one, or its just a vindaloo/phal with a few naga chillies in, so just stupid hot, but tastes of ghee.

My potty is relieved.

Next time you're passing Alton we can sort that out. I know a place... ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boots
« on: 20 February 2024, 22:32:14 »
Can you imagine, I'd be straining that hard, I'd rip the bathroom door of its hinges!
Nothing a Naga Chicken wouldn't fix. Explosively. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 February 2024, 07:30:19 »
I was pleasantly surprised, esp as hers is the weight reduced one (hence small fuel and ad blue tanks) to get it in the £0 tax bracket, so probably has lighter, less luxurious seats.

I love driving it around the lanes, although hers lacks power, it can embarrass a lot of cars in corners

They do handle very nicely. I reckon I could easily stick with myself driving the MX-5 on the twisties, and enjoy myself just as much doing it, ignoring the fact that the XE's performance would leave any MX-5 for dust on the straights.

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General Discussion Area / Re: French lithium fire
« on: 18 February 2024, 23:29:13 »
Same thing happened near me a few years back. Very similar plume of smoke visible for miles. I was on my way to the airfield when it kicked off and seeing that made me wonder if an airliner had gone up. :o

Reduced a row of industrial units to a crater in the ground.

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 16 February 2024, 21:51:24 »
Just needs a Rover V8-----------

The chassis didn't come close to handling the power from the standard engine! ;D

That's why they were fun to drive!  ;D

Depends if you like negotiating every corner on full buttock clench with the mud flaps scraping on the road.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 February 2024, 21:50:18 »
Did the first long-ish trip in hers today, seeing as mine is still busted.  Previously, furtherest I’d gone in it was central Londonium or Brumingham.

Might have gone through some puddles that were deeper than they looked as well.


Ignoring the fact it’s a manual, it was a lovely cruise down to the seaside, and if the app is to be believed, mid 50s on Opti’s favourite fuel

They are every bit as comfy a mile eater as the Omega was. (when burning the correct fuel, at any rate. ;D Never sampled the tractor variant.)

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 16 February 2024, 20:51:16 »
Just needs a Rover V8-----------

The chassis didn't come close to handling the power from the standard engine! ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Police for sale?
« on: 04 February 2024, 11:43:36 »
Cheaper than fixing the car security perhaps? ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 January 2024, 12:39:24 »
HS oppsing 2.

So, using our money they build temporary bridges over roads so they don't need their wagons going along their expensive (temporary) haulage roads to had to cross public roads via traffic lights.  Yet the self-abusers leave the traffic lights in place.  And what's more, seem to have them set so badly that I spend most of yesterday giving way to fresh air.

Tosspots.

That whole project smells of the government waving a blank cheque and the contractors putting on as many layers of gold plating, and dragging it out for as long as they possibly can, to extract as much profit from the public purse as possible.

.. and no doubt it'll be managed just as well as the rest of the UK's Victorian train set at the end.

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