Clio 172 Sport Ph2
Bit of a strange one this.....
Coming back from the Pod on Sunday evening, was giving the car a bit of stick round the back country roads near mine - everything was running sweet, next minute there was a car ahead of me so I slowed right down....went round a fairly modest left hand bend.....and then the car cut out & wouldnt restart.
Pushed it to the side of the road & checked a couple of things but to no avail. Ended up towing it back to my lockup which fortunately was only a mile or so away.
I put it down to either a faulty coilpack or TDC sensor.
Well I went down last night to have a better look now that I had a little more time & to make sure that it was actually missing a spark.
First thing I found was the ECU fuse had blown in the engine bay - well I presume it was the ECU fuse....as when I put a new one in, next time I put the ignition on the ECU clicked & the throttle body made a noise.
The very left 30AMP fuse was the one I replaced.
So anyway after I'd replaced the fuse & tried to start it it seemed that the immobiliser was now stopping the car from starting as the STOP & the red light werent going out. So I had another check of all connections, then my mate came in for a natter for 15mins - he left & I tried the car again & it started first time, I must of checked & restarted it about 15 times last nite & every time it was fine - I wiggled & jiggled all wires & connections whilst the car was running & it didnt cut out.
Couple of questions then - what would cause the main ECU fuse to blow - anyone experienced this, I'm thinking that perhaps something is shorting out along the loom somewhere. Also can the immobiliser take a while to sort itself out - whilst I was talking to my mate I'd left the key in the ignition & switched on - would this have any bearing on it?
Any help as usual would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Lee
Coming back from the Pod on Sunday evening, was giving the car a bit of stick round the back country roads near mine - everything was running sweet, next minute there was a car ahead of me so I slowed right down....went round a fairly modest left hand bend.....and then the car cut out & wouldnt restart.
Pushed it to the side of the road & checked a couple of things but to no avail. Ended up towing it back to my lockup which fortunately was only a mile or so away.
I put it down to either a faulty coilpack or TDC sensor.
Well I went down last night to have a better look now that I had a little more time & to make sure that it was actually missing a spark.
First thing I found was the ECU fuse had blown in the engine bay - well I presume it was the ECU fuse....as when I put a new one in, next time I put the ignition on the ECU clicked & the throttle body made a noise.
The very left 30AMP fuse was the one I replaced.
So anyway after I'd replaced the fuse & tried to start it it seemed that the immobiliser was now stopping the car from starting as the STOP & the red light werent going out. So I had another check of all connections, then my mate came in for a natter for 15mins - he left & I tried the car again & it started first time, I must of checked & restarted it about 15 times last nite & every time it was fine - I wiggled & jiggled all wires & connections whilst the car was running & it didnt cut out.
Couple of questions then - what would cause the main ECU fuse to blow - anyone experienced this, I'm thinking that perhaps something is shorting out along the loom somewhere. Also can the immobiliser take a while to sort itself out - whilst I was talking to my mate I'd left the key in the ignition & switched on - would this have any bearing on it?
Any help as usual would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Lee
