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Hi, my car is occasionally misfiring like if it were running on 3 cylinders (just for a half a second). It happens either in low rpms (below 2k when I step on the gas pedal) or in high rpms (when more power kicks in at 5.5k), but not all the time and generally seems to get worse over the...

Thanks all for the tips. I ended up just leaving it with an empty tank and disconnected battery. Didn't leave it on axle stands because I planned to just swap back to original suspension after I restarted. Was left in a non heated, but dry garage. Recently got the car running again. To me...

I am probably going to not use my 172 for the next few years so I want to store it it the meantime. I don't want to sell it and since it is in the Czech Republic there are no monthly costs, no insurance etc if it is just in the garage (and I have that too). I am now living in rural Portugal and...

Hi everyone, I had a problem with the engine running first on three cylinders and shortly after that on just 2 cylinders on my 2001 172. I was really scared that it was a mechanical problem since it was running on just 2 cylinders, but fortunately it was a combination of one bad spark plug and...

Hi Bowser, sorry for the really late reply. Just in case you are still having the same problem - I changed the battery and suddenly the drain is gone. I have no idea how this happened, but never happened again :-)

Sorry, totally forgot I posted this and never replied. The battery drain is .75 Amps, when I remove the fuse for this circuit the drain .04 Amps. Any idea?

Hi guys, on my PH1 172 my battery won't last overnight unless I disconnect fuse F29 (interior lights, radio). There are no obvious issues (all lights turn off as does the radio when fuse is left in and car is locked. I would imagine I should be looking for a bad earth? Or can someone point me...