Hi all,

 

Drove the other day and the car drove like pants, coughing and missing. Still ran ok, but you could feel it was missing.

 

Checked under the bonnet and found that cylinder No.1 nearside had sparks coming from it, between the coil pack and the connector. So I fiddled around with it and made no difference. Disconnected it and re-connected it and the revs made no difference.

 

The next day started it and ran great, like it was on 6 and no sparks, but when I disconnected the the connector, it still made no difference to the revs, so I pressume I'm still running on 5.

 

Does anyone know off-hand if its a dead coil pack or spark plug.....or something else?

 

Cheers

Those'd be my first suggestions (suggested to me a while ago). It could be something more serious, like a valve problem, which mine unfortunately appears to have. If you can get somebody who knows what they're about to take a look at it that would probably be the best option.

Cheers,

Bart

injector connectors, spark plugs or coil, these are the first things to check its probably a coil as they dont last very long.

start with the things you have, remove the coil pack thats known to be not working, remove the plug and clean it in case its fouled up, swap the coil pack and plug with another cylinder thats easy to get at and you know is working ok, check to see if the problem transfers its self to the new cylinder or goes away, if its still not working on the original cylinder check the connectors on the coil pack and the injector they tend to corrode and the connectors go very brittle. Its a case of elimination but you may as well start at the easy end first, after that if you have no luck your onto the loom the ptu and compression check