Hi All, I've got myself back into a 182 with a bit of a gamble/project car. It's a 2004 FF (as far as I can gather) with some turinis and a milltek exhaust system.
Picked it up fairly cheap, test drive showed that it had EML (Expected, decat) and code reader checked out with just the pre/post cat lambda codes. The air conditioning seems knackered too, the pipework is all there so it hasn't had a delete... but I'm guessing a leaky radiator. One to check later.
Aside from that, the car seems to occasionally stop you from revving above 3 or 4000 RPM. It gives a bit of burble from the exhaust and then after a few seconds usually lets you rev it out to the limit. I cleared the decat codes, and went for a 10minute drive managing to reproduce the symptoms plenty of times without getting a new code. The face that it's not consistent makes me think it's not an ECU initiated limp home mode... but I could be wrong.
The car came with lots of receipts, it seems to have had two cambelt changes in its life (perhaps it's let go at some stage
) but no evidence of a dephaser change... so I'm expecting to cough up for that, but will be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't cause problems. It's had injectors in the last 18months, and rear shocks in the last few years so not expecting those to be a problem (though won't rule them out).
I'll get it cleaned up at the weekend for some obligatory photographs, I'm thinking of a quick weekend tune up in which I'll replace the plugs and give everything a basic once over. but is there a go-to list of things I can check over the weekend to try and overcome this hesitation/missfire/whatever it is.
Hopefully the car will be a runaround for my wife, as her lease car goes back soon. If it survives the winter, I'll probably take it on a trackday or two before trading it in!
Cheers
Picked it up fairly cheap, test drive showed that it had EML (Expected, decat) and code reader checked out with just the pre/post cat lambda codes. The air conditioning seems knackered too, the pipework is all there so it hasn't had a delete... but I'm guessing a leaky radiator. One to check later.
Aside from that, the car seems to occasionally stop you from revving above 3 or 4000 RPM. It gives a bit of burble from the exhaust and then after a few seconds usually lets you rev it out to the limit. I cleared the decat codes, and went for a 10minute drive managing to reproduce the symptoms plenty of times without getting a new code. The face that it's not consistent makes me think it's not an ECU initiated limp home mode... but I could be wrong.
The car came with lots of receipts, it seems to have had two cambelt changes in its life (perhaps it's let go at some stage
) but no evidence of a dephaser change... so I'm expecting to cough up for that, but will be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't cause problems. It's had injectors in the last 18months, and rear shocks in the last few years so not expecting those to be a problem (though won't rule them out).I'll get it cleaned up at the weekend for some obligatory photographs, I'm thinking of a quick weekend tune up in which I'll replace the plugs and give everything a basic once over. but is there a go-to list of things I can check over the weekend to try and overcome this hesitation/missfire/whatever it is.
Hopefully the car will be a runaround for my wife, as her lease car goes back soon. If it survives the winter, I'll probably take it on a trackday or two before trading it in!
Cheers
