Got my car back from garage on Friday to sort the misfiring out, it has been fine for 3 days but now all of a sudden it have decided to do it again, the garage apparently said it was an injector so they cleaned them. Surely it can't be an injector again can it? Don't really want to take it back to my garage because they had it for 6 weeks and most of that time it was just sat outside.

Any ideas guys?

Cheers

James

unfortunately due to the nature of these cars there aren't very many garages that are familiar with them and so that is why so many owners try to self diagnose problems.

 

if there is a smell of petrol once warmed up it could be as simple as the ecu temp sender unit not working... see if you can get it on conzult or ecutalk to check sensors are working (there might be a member local).

 

the best thing to do is pull preventative maintenance and that will then rule out any easy simple things.

 

there are a number checks you can do... one is to check and clean every connector you can find including the battery (if you are going to mess with the one on the ecu it's best to unplug the battery first).

the clips on some of there are difficult to undo but take your time and be careful, some of the connectors are brittle and may break so don't force them.

 

check the air filter/s and replace fuel filter and spark plugs with the proper ones for this car (go back to factory standard and you can't go wrong).

 

here are some good guides:

 

http://www.twinturbo.net/net/viewmsg.aspx?forum=technical&msg_id=922678&forum=technical&dtSearch=2

 

 

http://www.pexcom.com.au/z32cms/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.335

 

 

http://www.pexcom.com.au/z32cms/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.230

 

 

http://www.pexcom.com.au/z32cms/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.221

 

 

best of luck..

im busy atm but your welcome to pop over and il have a gander

Thanks mate, I got the garage to take it back and sort now, told them I don't want to wait six weeks again though.

Cheers buddy.

James

Do they have a lot of experience with Zeds?

No mate, only the experience with mine which I don't think they are enjoying too much!

Do they have a lot of experience with Zeds?

 

No one round here does, even if they say they do, what they mean is they have worked on a few skylines and "they are pretty much the same right??"

Not many places do, in truth.

Not many places do, in truth.

 

very true :(

There's a place called read performance down the road from me that used to have a tt and work on it so I think in the future I am gonna take it to them, should have done in the first place I think.

There's a place called read performance down the road from me that used to have a tt and work on it so I think in the future I am gonna take it to them, should have done in the first place I think.

 

Don't, they were the ones I was thinking of, they have very little experience with the z32, im not going say things in the open forum but they have only really worked on two zeds one was martins and one was mine, they did bog all to mine couldn't even diagnose that the maf was faulty, it took jeff about 20 seconds to work that out not an exaggeration, they had it for three days and concluded that the cats were blocked and the block was ****ed. Martins car well I wasn't there so I cant say. I wouldn't let them touch mine again.

Ok cheers mate, that's handy to know. I'm hoping this will be the end of the troubles with mine for a while, although I am seriously thinking of selling it and getting a tt very soon.

Ok cheers mate, that's handy to know. I'm hoping this will be the end of the troubles with mine for a while, although I am seriously thinking of selling it and getting a tt very soon.

 

You wouldn't regret it, I could take you out in my tt somewhen if you liked

Cheers buddy that would be good. Hopefully it won't take too long to sell mine. Not really too sure on what it's worth either.

half as much again once the suns out lol.