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 Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:52 am |
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Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Hey guys,
I set of to work this morning and everything was fine until i tried to set of from a juntion, at this point the ABS fault warning came on then a few seconds later it said it had a fault with the cat then the engine light came on and every other light on the dash.....then a few seconds later the engine sounded like a 1 cylinder broke old lawnmower it also had hardly any power, so i got it to work only using 1st gear parked it up left it for 5 mins, came back out and looked under the bonnet, everything seemed fine so i started it and it was all ok 
Any ideas on what could have happened?
Sorry for the essay 
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:02 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 6055
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Location: Salisbury / New Forest
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Doesn't sound good Rich.
Hope its a simple fix.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:04 am |
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| CD-vRS wrote: |
Doesn't sound good Rich.
Hope its a simple fix. |
No it doesnt worst thing is is im trading it in on Monday, just need it to last until then.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:31 am |
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Joined: Feb 21, 2010
Posts: 931
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Location: Brighton
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Maybe its a sign???
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:38 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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| Big_Rich180 wrote: |
| CD-vRS wrote: |
Doesn't sound good Rich.
Hope its a simple fix. |
No it doesnt worst thing is is im trading it in on Monday, just need it to last until then. |
Don't use it until Monday, give it a little V power, and clean the TB lol
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:39 am |
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Joined: Feb 11, 2010
Posts: 657
Trade Rating: +4
Location: newcastle upon tyne
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check alternator charge, if its overcharging it can make a car do funny things.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:53 am |
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Joined: Oct 03, 2010
Posts: 417
Trade Rating: +1
Location: Neath, South Wales.
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Check the earths too
Sam.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:09 am |
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Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Location: Little hulton (worsley)
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Clean the map sensor have to do mine every now and again.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:18 am |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2010
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Location: redditch
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yeah check battery , alternator , earths then come back to us!
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:48 am |
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Cheers guys, i will try all of the above, but in im not going to be using it until i p/x the car in now.
The only fault which has stayed with the car now is an anti pollution fault, when i had this last time it was the wiring to the vvt solenoid, so i will also check that again.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:21 am |
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Joined: Feb 18, 2010
Posts: 4013
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Location: Worcester
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Sounds like your 180 is teaching you a lesson for p/x'ing it 
It won't go without a fight 
Did you ever watch 'Christine' btw?
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:30 am |
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| Antix wrote: |
Sounds like your 180 is teaching you a lesson for p/x'ing it
It won't go without a fight
Did you ever watch 'Christine' btw? |
Its never stopped teaching me a lesson
Christine........showing your age again ant
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:54 am |
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Joined: Jan 23, 2011
Posts: 33
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Location: Warwickshire
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| NICKST wrote: |
| Clean the map sensor have to do mine every now and again. |
How do you do this? seems like mine could do with a bit of this 
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