Car is a N/A.

 

Right I'll give a bit of background info about this problem:

 

Just finished at the Nurburgring and started to head home. Filled up with petrol, got down the road and found the heater matrix had blown up.

 

Pulled over, a mate of mine managed to bypass it eventually using a bit of pipe running the heater matrix into the car. We started the car back up to make sure there was water still circulating and there was a little rattle at the front of the engine.

 

Now, we noticed my fan is cracked to buggery, so I just assumed it was this, however my friend was determined it was comming from the top end , like a follower noise or something, anyway, he was determined there was something wrong so tried to take the cam belt cover off, he took one of the air intake pipes off and the vaccum pipe underneath and managed to bend back the cover a bit. The belt looks ok under there but couldn't get a good look without taking half the engine apart (and we were just outside of Nurburg at 8pm and it was starting to get dark), so we didn't want to do that.

 

Anyway, he got me to start the car with the air intake pipe off again and it ran up and slowly died, running lean I guess?

 

So we put everything back together, tried to start it up again and it was just turning over, didn't wanna go. We tried again and he opened the throttle up (right open) and it started and ran fine.

 

This got us back 300 miles from germany, only once did it happen again when stopped at a service station, I started the car and quickly tried to reverse. Stalled it, then it wouldn't start until I floored the accelerator.

 

Back in england I popped to work and when I came home did the same thing again, started it up, jammed it in reverse it stalled (Don't think i'm actually stalling it) started it up (by flooring it), tried to reverse, it died, again, and again, then eventually I got away.

 

.... Any ideas why it doesn't like starting and why its dying so easily?

 

Sorry about the essay but I'm trying to give as much info as possible :)

 

Thanks for any help

 

Tony

First off, have you checked the ECU for fault codes?

 

Have you checked the connector round by the throttle position sensor? Maybe you dislodged it or something.

Havn't checked for codes, is there not an engine management light on these?

 

and where is the throttle position sensor? :)

 

Sorry I don't really know much about this car, I just get in and drive it at weekends. Give me a vauxhall and I'm well away :)