ClioSport 172
Hey guys and girls,
Right i've only just purchased this 172. Lovely and clean, all the normal issues were fixed and replaced. Couldn't see anything wrong with it and the bloke was as wet as an otters pocket so he definitely didn't sell it to me as a 'dud'.. I just have a curse when it comes to cars.
200 miles in after giving her some beans, passed through a deepish puddle, slowly (its french remember).. came out the other side and proceeded to floor it up the hill... All good.. 100 meters up the road I hit 3 cylinders (on christmas day - ho F**king ho!)
I suspected water where it shouldn't be, not the case, everything was dry that needed to be.. Replaced plugs, no joy, HT leads, still no joy, narrowed it down to a single cylinder (no2) so decided to replace an injector (had a message on self diagnostic on dash that injector fault was read) replaced injector.. Ran a little better... not constantly on 3 now.. just intermittent. More when I give it some beans.. If i'm real gentle it runs on 4.. Also on first startup in the morning for about 1 minute it drives fine?!
I've had it scanned, the bloke gave me a list as long as my arm of codes.. all sorts.. he advised me to replace the coil pack, apparently moisture (steam) can build up under that stupid plastic cover and wreck your coil pack and this causes all sorts of codes to be thrown up.. So.. I went and bought a coil pack.. EML light disappeared from the dash but it still runs like s**t.. so I must have fixed something? prff.
Anyway, i've driven it for a week 'as it is' purely because I was about ready to jump off a bridge and leave the car on some low lying land and hope the floods resolved my problems. I've now decided I need to get this eff'in thing sorted. I've been reading all sorts of threads on here and tried various things. No joy.. Really appreciate any thoughts?
As it is the cars running ok unless you're giving it throttle, or when its idling..
Today I had another peak under the bonnet.. With the key turned on, there is a buzz coming from the throttle unit.. is this normal? I've also noted that the connector onto the coil pack is really quite crappy, think i'm to blame from removing it all so many times in the last month, I'm now wondering if i've damaged it.. I also can only see 3 pins inside that connector... which to me seems wrong as there's 4 pins on the coil pack for it to mate with... Can someone possibly have a nose inside their connector to tell me if there should be 3 or 4 pins inside that plug? Think one might have gone walkie's inside the plastic??? Hence causing me so much sh*t!
Any advice, tips welcome but mainly just want to know if people have 3 or 4 pins? 4 would make sense as there are 4 cylinders and there's an empty spot for the 4th on the plug..
Thanks a bunch,
Tom
Right i've only just purchased this 172. Lovely and clean, all the normal issues were fixed and replaced. Couldn't see anything wrong with it and the bloke was as wet as an otters pocket so he definitely didn't sell it to me as a 'dud'.. I just have a curse when it comes to cars.
200 miles in after giving her some beans, passed through a deepish puddle, slowly (its french remember).. came out the other side and proceeded to floor it up the hill... All good.. 100 meters up the road I hit 3 cylinders (on christmas day - ho F**king ho!)
I suspected water where it shouldn't be, not the case, everything was dry that needed to be.. Replaced plugs, no joy, HT leads, still no joy, narrowed it down to a single cylinder (no2) so decided to replace an injector (had a message on self diagnostic on dash that injector fault was read) replaced injector.. Ran a little better... not constantly on 3 now.. just intermittent. More when I give it some beans.. If i'm real gentle it runs on 4.. Also on first startup in the morning for about 1 minute it drives fine?!
I've had it scanned, the bloke gave me a list as long as my arm of codes.. all sorts.. he advised me to replace the coil pack, apparently moisture (steam) can build up under that stupid plastic cover and wreck your coil pack and this causes all sorts of codes to be thrown up.. So.. I went and bought a coil pack.. EML light disappeared from the dash but it still runs like s**t.. so I must have fixed something? prff.
Anyway, i've driven it for a week 'as it is' purely because I was about ready to jump off a bridge and leave the car on some low lying land and hope the floods resolved my problems. I've now decided I need to get this eff'in thing sorted. I've been reading all sorts of threads on here and tried various things. No joy.. Really appreciate any thoughts?
As it is the cars running ok unless you're giving it throttle, or when its idling..
Today I had another peak under the bonnet.. With the key turned on, there is a buzz coming from the throttle unit.. is this normal? I've also noted that the connector onto the coil pack is really quite crappy, think i'm to blame from removing it all so many times in the last month, I'm now wondering if i've damaged it.. I also can only see 3 pins inside that connector... which to me seems wrong as there's 4 pins on the coil pack for it to mate with... Can someone possibly have a nose inside their connector to tell me if there should be 3 or 4 pins inside that plug? Think one might have gone walkie's inside the plastic??? Hence causing me so much sh*t!
Any advice, tips welcome but mainly just want to know if people have 3 or 4 pins? 4 would make sense as there are 4 cylinders and there's an empty spot for the 4th on the plug..
Thanks a bunch,
Tom
