Don't know where to begin. Driving along @ 30mph and all of a sudden the car starts smelling of petrol and hesitates and cuts out. After a few tries at restarting it fires up pretty rough with even more stronger smell of petrol. Also the amber engine light on the dash cluster is constantly on now. The rev counter needle is idling between 1.5-2000 revs. The car feels extremely rough. The fan now is constantly on as well.

 

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks folks....

Sy

 

the ecu needs to be reset for a good couple of hours ...check all the connections on the ecu in the passengers footwell and also the connections on the PTU take them off and clean them all ...make sure they are tight when you put them in. also check in the drivers footwell in the fuse box at the bottom right ther are some relays that can work loose , make sure they are all tight ..and make sure the earth lead on the battery is grounding and not getting hot to the touch

 

good luck mate

 

Steve

Thanks Steve, very grateful, I will try this and let you all know...

 

Vijay is due to visit me and the missus soon with the Consult as well....so thanks Vijay !

 

Also many thanks to the others who have also posted....

 

Drinks to everyone in our next meet !

Syed, car is obviously in safety mode. Extra fuel is dumped in and the elec sub fan coming on is all to help cool things down in the engine, hence the engine check light as well.

For my 2p worth it is one of 2 things, the temp sensor with yellow connector ontop of the top water inlet pipe, though am more inclined to go with the ECU itself. On rare occassions there is a circuit within the ECU that can blow, it can be repaired but a replacement is cheaper, it causes the symtoms you describe and does not always show a code fault on the ECU. So personally i would borrow one from someone, don't matter if auto manual etc as it's just to "start" the car only, have you messed with ECU recently ? fitted a chip in past few months ?

The list of parts you've ben asking about, MAF/AFM would not cause these symtoms, PTU same again, Temp sensor hmm possibility but as possible as a fooked chip or circuit down in ECU.

Hope that helps

smithy

Thanks Smithy....

 

 

Yes, just got the car back from the garage with a new chip fitted !

 

 

Oh no !

ok Si if the car has been fitted with a new chip ..previously socketed ?? then it is possible some connection on the ECU has come loose as the car was running well before hand after the chip had been fitted, ...possibly the chip itself is not fully home in the socket or has worked loose on one pin ....check all connections tight and as smithy said get a spare ECU from someone and plug that in too see if things improve

 

while yours is out take it to thegarage where the chip was replaced and get them to sort out the socket ( could have a dry joint ....badly soldered connection giving high resistance ) and check their work is ok

 

good luck mate

 

steve

So any of you dudes in the Middlesex area able to lend Syed an ECU for 10mins ? am sure he'l sort yer out a cuppa or summit whilst yer waiting :)

smithy

a mate of mine recently had his ecu chipped and had all sorts of problems, apparently it turns out the garage used the wrong solder, something about it not being able to resist temperatures or something... i'd take the ecu back to the garage to have it checked Sy.. sounds like its something fairly straight forward so i wouldnt panic mate...

 

T

Thanks guys, extremely grateful...