Trophy #267
Im wondering if some of you chaps can help me.
For nearly a year now I have had intermittant starting problems sometime starting my 172. It can take several attempts to turn over before finally firing and running fine. It followed me putting in some 'suspect' fuel. Ive ran several lots of redex thru it to clean the injectors to no avail. I have no issues with the car once iots running, just starting.
My car was recently in @ renault and I asked them to look into it. Initially they said they saw the problem but it stopped b4 they could 100% identify the source (they seemed to think temp sensor), they wanted to keep the car overnight and check 1st thing in morning so eventually it got booked in again (while later due to no curtesy car) and i think they just looked at it and it didnt show anything on the ecu fault computer so they have not done owt.
Its now starrting to annoy me as initially they had seen a problem but seem unable to do anything about it unless it shows a fault on the computer. Im an electriclal engineer myself and its great when you have a system which tells you exactly whats wrong but you still need to be able to look and do somehting about it if it doesnt as well.
I havent told them it was following a batch of bad fuel as i would expect them to bill me for it but I have no idea what else it may be. My only other thought would be semi blocked fuel filter or dirty injectors etc but the fact it runs fine and have no issues when u give it some welly would tend to suggest otherwise. Car now done 31k and eng had suggested to me that maybe spark plugs could be issue so im considering changing them early but tbh am clutching at straws.
Can any of you lot shed some light on this ?
For nearly a year now I have had intermittant starting problems sometime starting my 172. It can take several attempts to turn over before finally firing and running fine. It followed me putting in some 'suspect' fuel. Ive ran several lots of redex thru it to clean the injectors to no avail. I have no issues with the car once iots running, just starting.
My car was recently in @ renault and I asked them to look into it. Initially they said they saw the problem but it stopped b4 they could 100% identify the source (they seemed to think temp sensor), they wanted to keep the car overnight and check 1st thing in morning so eventually it got booked in again (while later due to no curtesy car) and i think they just looked at it and it didnt show anything on the ecu fault computer so they have not done owt.
Its now starrting to annoy me as initially they had seen a problem but seem unable to do anything about it unless it shows a fault on the computer. Im an electriclal engineer myself and its great when you have a system which tells you exactly whats wrong but you still need to be able to look and do somehting about it if it doesnt as well.
I havent told them it was following a batch of bad fuel as i would expect them to bill me for it but I have no idea what else it may be. My only other thought would be semi blocked fuel filter or dirty injectors etc but the fact it runs fine and have no issues when u give it some welly would tend to suggest otherwise. Car now done 31k and eng had suggested to me that maybe spark plugs could be issue so im considering changing them early but tbh am clutching at straws.
Can any of you lot shed some light on this ?
