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[zirk]

And its......... FIXED!! 

Place your guesses here, you'll never get it!! 

It had nothing to do with ANY of the replies or ideas of what the issue could of been, also she's running spot on as well which says that all the mods I've done under the bonnet have no issue with the running of the engine 

Cam Belt Broke...(again)

[P6UL K]

And its......... FIXED!! 

Place your guesses here, you'll never get it!! 

It had nothing to do with ANY of the replies or ideas of what the issue could of been, also she's running spot on as well which says that all the mods I've done under the bonnet have no issue with the running of the engine 

Cam Belt Broke...(again)

Huh? My cambelt has never broken mate! But your wait is over..... Finally got the laptop fired up!! Sorry for keeping you all hanging on 

Well after all the its this, its that, try this, try that it turned out to be......










































A STONE!!!! About 3-5mm in size!!  :-(
Basically said stone had found its way into the fuel tank, sat in the swirl pot in the tank directly under the pump. When the car was idling or pootling around it was fine as the pump was drawing enough fuel to pick the stone up and cause any issues BUT when i drove at my normal 'Ar$e is on fire' manner the fuel pump was under more load creating more suction and drawing the stone up into the pump and blocking the impeller?

When the garage found the problem there was a massive amount of swarf sitting directly below the pump and the pump itself was buggered! The stone had chewed up the insides of the pump and really was having serious issues trying to draw fuel up, so a new pump, filter and the tank removed, drained and cleaned out and now all is good!!  Well chuffed!!  But the downside was the agro with 3 different garages in the first place, various costs with the intial 2 garages, being fobbed off by the Main Stealer (And them busting my BNIB manual gearstick I'd recently just fitted) and then the final bill!! Inc the culprit of Mr Stone....



So, Omegatron is BACK to her happy old self!

[aaronjb]

Good job that garage, I reckon.

Who'd have guessed at a stone?

[cem_devecioglu]

A 3.2 ECU is intelligent enough to create cylinder misfire codes if ignition problems cause a misfire, unlike the 2.5/3.0.

Which is why I didn't say loom, as that definitely generates codes...

Another thought, is the fuel light on/less than 1/4 tank what speed are you doing when this happens? Accelerating?

Top of the red to run out is about 5 miles at full chat and fuel starvation is about the only thing which won't put a light on...

I tought similiar but once started fuel starvation problems wll show very frequently and you can easily guess


I still think the ignition feed is cut completely for some reason

   the oscar goes to.. 


I think we have an unusual case in OOF history, dirty fuel tank


glad to hear you sorted 


but 208£ for work   its eye watering..

[aaronjb]

£52/hr is pretty reasonable for garage work here, Cem.. a main dealer for a prestige marque could easily be twice that!