I'm not being lazy, have done a search on this, which got so many results that the prob could be coilpacks, P.T.U, airflow thingy, plugs???....optimax??

 

Right heres what seems to be wrong;

 

The zed has had a tiny occasional misfire (when cold) on startup for about a month or so, nothing major just like it ticks over fine for about 10 secs then misses a beat for a split second then fine again, Its never realy bothered me as after 2 mins or so always sorted itself out.

 

This morning my brother wakes me up when he goes to work to tell me my brake lights have somehow stayed on overnight???WTF?? (anyway thats another story!!) So while im outside i think ill put it in the garage, start it up and it misfires (worse this time) and stalls when i put it in reverse. Try to restart and it wont fire up just turns and turns and turns. So i leave it a min or two, and its still the same., so i give it a bit of gas whilst trying to turn it over and with a bloody great squeal of the auxillary belts it fires up, a quick rev stops the belts from squealing and she ticks over but the missfire is more frequent now than it has been previously. Im scared to take it to work later now as im worried that it will get warm, run ok then cool down while im at work and do the same trick when i try to start it cold and show me up in the carpark!! As ive got the fstest car in the carpark I dont want to ruin her image!!!

 

Any advice most greatfully recieved!

The plot thickens.... I decided to take it for a spin to see if it would break down on me (better now than on the way to work later)and after the most unmechanicaly minded poking of various clips and connectors under the bonnet before i started it perfect, ran perfect, and everything. Strange is not the word, only problem is now, I dont know what was playing up, so now I dont know what had caused it.

 

Is there a fault code for your zed having a sulk because you were too lazy to put it in the garage and it had to sit outside i the cold all night??:confused:

Berks, when I got mine from Tony it had previously been garaged and now I keep it on the drive. In the first week of owning I had probs with the car stumbling and dying at junctions, which Tony had never had.

 

Wiggling various electrical connectors, I narrowed it down to the ECU temp sensor (plus there was an extra fan noise which stopped when wiggling it), it was missing a connector clip, so the cold and frost getting to it and were intermittantly causing probs. Obviously when it was garaged, the connector never got frosty cold to it.

 

Since cleaning up the connector and getting a clip, the problem has gone.

 

So it may well be the cold air getting to the electrical connectors, which one - I don't know, but its probably worth checking all the obvious ones out (temp sensors, TPS, etc) and spraying WD40 to protect 'em after cleaning. Or be nice to her and put her in the garage ;)

 

Hope that helps

 

Pete

I bet its an injector connector ;) The ones deeper down in the 'legs' of the plenum ooooh errrrr lol

Well I was gonna take them off and clean the connectors etc, but the first plastic clip i touched snapped as it was very brittle from the heat, Ah well think ill get some new plugs and plasticy bits on the next sevice!!!