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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: ZacVegas on 08 June 2013, 15:34:18

Title: Jag query
Post by: ZacVegas on 08 June 2013, 15:34:18

Afternoon folks, My dads S type has developed a miss fire which has been attributed to the coil pack, As my dads mate who normally looks after his car is on holiday until the 16th of this month I was wondering if driving it with a misfire until then would do any damage. He only does around 7 miles a day. Its a 2000 3ltr by the way. Thanks for any help :y

Title: Re: Jag query
Post by: RobG on 08 June 2013, 15:39:15

Possible damage to cats

Title: Re: Jag query
Post by: Andy B on 08 June 2013, 15:56:33

All misfires should be sorted sooner rather than later ..... as Rob says, you're potentially pouring fuel down your exhaust  ???  :y

Title: Re: Jag query
Post by: dbug on 08 June 2013, 16:04:21

Quote from: RobG on 08 June 2013, 15:39:15

Possible damage to cats

Yep get it sorted as soon as - Jag cats are not cheap!!  ;)

Title: Re: Jag query
Post by: Andy H on 08 June 2013, 16:30:35

Modern ECUs will shut off the fuel to a cylinder that is misfiring to avoid damaging the cats. I don't know if a 2000 Jaguar is modern enough to have that feature though :-\

Title: Re: Jag query
Post by: hoody on 08 June 2013, 20:35:04

looked at buying an s-type and coil pack failure/cat failures are very common and can be a bit of a pain to get at one bank of cylinders to check.