In running like a bag of shite part one, a faulty injector and corroded connectors were the culprit and sorted...

 

Well if having issues with the electrics isnt bad enough with this weather, with the headlight issue still not resolved, when driving today all was fine until after a filling up at Tesco my car started running rough and lots of smoke out the left bank exhaust, i have a straight through mongoose system so is it still likely the left bank of the engine? I know the intake works opposite sides.

 

Checked all the connectors, gave them a wiggle, but nothing changed, im hoping i havent got another injector gone bad. Bad smell of fuel, which makes me think injector, unburnt fuel causing the smoke or overfuelling. No obvious fuel leaks from the usual spots.

Need a couple of dry days to strip the plenum and pull all the injectors for clean and check, but..... im wondering if bad fuel might be the culprit:thumbdown:

I always put BP Ultimate in mine Graham. Was Tesco's super unleaded or just unleaded?

Just unleaded mate, i thought about super unleaded, but didnt think and already started, luckily i only put in £20 so that will be gone in no time and will fill up with super or go somewhere else to see if it cures it before i start any stripping down lol

It does feel like before when i had an injector go bad.

There is another intermitand fault that causes a zed to run like a bag of nails and stink of fuel but normaly after a gentle couple of miles it norm goes, but cant remambar what it is thou, i think i put mine down to the fact the car had been setting there for ages in the damp after a journey in the wet with no engine bottom tray on cas i was still checking stuff, and got a wet damp dirty air filter/ maff. but i do remember not doing anything and just used the car more and its gonr and doent do it any more.

and i try to use at least unleaded super if not when im the other side of the city get that 99 ron stuff super super

We use vPower in both Zeds Jans NA it gives about 30 miles extra on a full tank and my TT needs it !

The one petrol station we don't have in N.I is Shell and any time I am driving on the mainland UK I fill my tank with V Power.

could also be ptu or cas with connector issues...

The one petrol station we don't have in N.I is Shell and any time I am driving on the mainland UK I fill my tank with V Power.

 

Really - I never knew that Gaz!!

 

And back to Graham's post - I don't recall seeing Super on the IoW either for that matter....

 

Richard:surrender:

Tesco do super unleaded and there is a texaco that does it, but ive used normal many times in my N/A and not noticed much difference between the two if im honest, im going to put in some super in the morning and see if it clears the issue. The strange thing was the car was running fine until that top up and within the time it took me to leave he forecourt it was running bad.

Could be another injector down, especially if you have been pulling at and disconnecting the injector plugs, fragile at the best of times. I would not rule out bad fuel just yet either. I had a fiat as a runaround that ended up with blocked lines because of bad fuel. Tesco did compensate after a small war that I won. You if you suspect it is because of low octane buy an octane booster from halfrauds and squirt it in the tank!!

 

Hope you get it sorted.