Help Plz - Car Running Like A Bag of Nails

[Russ.]

Hi, could do with a bit of help please.

Got in my car tonight to drive to the gfs, all was fine until i stopped at a round about (driven about 2miles at this point) pulled off and the car had no go, appeared to have gone into limp mode.

Now, I suspect this is due to a flood i drove through earlier on in the day but what strikes me as weird is the car was fine after and half way to the gfs it just went.

I crawled....sorry limped home and had a gander and there was a bit of water on the top of the engine and a little on the air filter box. Ive pulled all the spark plugs out and checked, none appeared to be wet but i dried them off anyway and fired the hairdryer down each cylinder which seems to have stopped the misfire and restored power to its normal self.

However the engine management light is still on, it was flashing at first and is just static now. Anybody know what the difference is?

Final part to the long post.... I took the filler cap of and there is mayo looking substance around the top, ive heard this can mean the head gasket is on its way out? or is it likely to just be because the engine has been misfiring?

Any suggestions on how I can clear the engine management light? ive parked the car in the garage overnight now in the hope that it will clear up overnight lol

Cheers for any help and suggestions,

Russ

Edit - See attached pic of filler cap

 

[Middo]

mayo in the filler cap is quite normal for the 1.2.

as for the management light, you need to take it to a renault garage to get it plugged into a CLiP system to have it diagnosed, and then reset.

i always use adrian wilson in leek

 

[Russ.]

Ive had the management light come on before after having the engine steam cleaned, after drying the plugs it went off. Is that likely to happen this time u think?


Car is running fine now anyway, I took it upto 90 earlier to test it lol before that I struggled even get it go above 20. Light is still on though, weird how it was flashing yet now its perm on. serv light didnt come on either which struck me as odd

 

[Adamhodg]

Give it a day or so, my engine management light went out of its own accord a couple of days ago.

 

[Middo]

yeah moisture in the plug recesses etc. can make the engine misfire and trigger the engine management lights. i'll be honest when i say ive got no idea if they'll go off on their own, but for what it costs (20quid) you may as well just get it tested and reset if your about in the area

 

[Middo]

Give it a day or so, my engine management light went out of its own accord a couple of days ago.

which one

 

[tommyboy]

probably moisture somewhere russ, give it a day or so as others have said before taking it in for diagnostics checks.

 

[Russ.]

Yeah ill give it a few days, see what happens. It was running fine when i last went out anyway. It's all snuggled up in my nice big garage now anyway hehe

 

[tommyboy]

^ Damn you and your ridiculous sized garage lol

 

[Russ.]

^ Damn you and your ridiculous sized garage lol

lmao ive moved house so have a different garage but its just as big, if not bigger youll be pleased to know. ill post some pics of the car in the garage at somepoint for u all lol

 

[tommyboy]

^ Damn you and your ridiculous sized garage lol

lmao ive moved house so have a different garage but its just as big, if not bigger youll be pleased to know. ill post some pics of the car in the garage at somepoint for u all lol

haha, a garage fanatic russ! look forward to it the pics

 

[Russ.]

its the parents, not me.

They buy a house with a double garage...not too park the cars in...but to fill with crap

 

[Russ.]

no misfire this morning but light was still on, called the aa out who plugged their clip in and cleared the fault for me