drove car 50miles to work today, sweet as ever, switched off engine & tried to restart but it wouldnt fire. eventually called out breakdown.he said engine flooded & managed to start it by taking out fuel pump fuse, turning engine over & then quickly puttin fuse in.

car ran rough to start hesitating when accelerating but after bout 20 miles seemed fine. went out again tonight (to pub),started and ran fine but then wouldn't start again to come home. used same method as b4 to eventualy start it(took bloody long time), same as b4 hesitant on acceleration but fine apart from that.

 

any ideas on this please, was meant to b taking Z cross channel on saturday, me thinks not now:( :( :confused:

 

 

cheers

 

nick

 

p.s. not had chance to run diagnostic yet

Sounds a bit like the PTU to me. Definitely could do with seeing the output of the diagnostic though.

cheers andy,

 

will run it in morning, is it just the ecu diagnostic that i need to do

 

nick

just run ecu diagnostics, no faults showing. car starting ok this morning but hesitating when accelerator depressed. am about to clean ptu contacts & wd40 everything.

any advice/suggestions greatly appreciated.

does this mean that ptu not faulty or could it still be even though diagnostics ok?

 

still not sure about cross channel trip on saturday

 

 

cheers

 

nick

think i may have just solved it. corroded terminals on coolent temperature switch. cleaned them up and every thing seems fine, even hesitation stopped. watch this space:)