awfull missfire!! please help!

[Mikey]

washed my engine bay on monday and since then I have a terrible missfire, the car struggles to rev and engine vibrates as speed up. The ornage light (picture of the engine) keeps flashing on and off. Really worried, my thoughts are I have water in where the spark plugs and coils go, whats your thoughts? Will i need new coils and spark plugs?

Cheers, Mike

 

[Feirny]

Doesnt your dad know?

 

[Mikey]

hes not here

 

[ports172]

happened to mine, change ur plugs and also u mite have to change ur leads

 

[ports172]

mine was oil not water tho

 

[Mikey]

my dad will go mad lol, just bought me new set of plugs and coils, i wash my engine bay and theyre knackered .

 

[Josh@Renparts]

i told you not ever to use water...... this is the 3rd time now lol.....

 

[ports172]

its cos where the plugs are

 

[TomTom]

Get the coils out (10mms) and get the spark plugs out (16mm spark plug socket) and get rid of any water in there. Could have got water into the electrics though, have you dried it all off? Get some WD40 around it aswell.

Was the engine running/hot when you washed it? lol

 

[Russ.]

i made this mistake

remove spark plugs, take a hair dryer to them, fire hair dryer down each cylinder, keep doing this till your car is fine n dandy.

Might need to get the aa out or the car connected to diagnostic machine to get the engine light turned off. or it might automatically turn off after a few miles of running on all 4 cylinders.

 

[Mikey]

cheers russ

 

[Russ.]

forgot to say..dry ur spark plugs as well lol old rag on them and give them a blast with the hairdryer 2. will prob take 30mins or so to get the car to a point were it doesnt misfire

 

[Munson]

And then never ever wash an engine bay again. It's for girls.

And fags who spend more time buffing their car than they do driving it

 

[bmh.01]

And then never ever wash an engine bay again. It's for girls.

And fags who spend more time buffing their car than they do driving it

Correct :rasp:, I cannot see peoples facination with having a mega clean engine bay. As long as everythings not covered in oil then its fine.

 

[andy dci]

gotta agree there sir lol