Trophy #267
Many, many moons ago (approx 18 months +) the pikey in me agreed when a friend of mine gave me a 3/4 full plastic container of petrol from his van which he used for his generator (cue rightfull abuse and stoning) to which i poured into my 172 (gulp) after a few nights sotrage in my garage. On starting it was obvious something was up as car was spluttering and all sorts. I concluded it would probably be best to leave the car running on idle in the garage for as long as possible to burn the fuel but saving the car from theft on my drive (altho possible several small animals may have been sacrificed had they been living in the garage for the the following 2.5 hours the car was running).
The needle was down to red and I needed to use it so drove to usual sainsburys before filling with their 97 ron super. Car runs perfectly fine but has had issues starting ever since. done 15k + miles in it but still get issues when 'sortof' warm. Stone cold seems ok as does hot. Recently replaced spark plugs and had dealer find an iffy reading 'somewhere' (they didnt tell me where) but was not conclusive enough but I did talk the mechanic into changing somethink as they had seen 'a' problem which they did and changed the crank sensor.
Im now back in the guessing game as neither has worked. Only thing i have been told is that possible worth changing the fuel filter but other than that am stuck.
Car runs fine when running, just has problems starting.
Rob
The needle was down to red and I needed to use it so drove to usual sainsburys before filling with their 97 ron super. Car runs perfectly fine but has had issues starting ever since. done 15k + miles in it but still get issues when 'sortof' warm. Stone cold seems ok as does hot. Recently replaced spark plugs and had dealer find an iffy reading 'somewhere' (they didnt tell me where) but was not conclusive enough but I did talk the mechanic into changing somethink as they had seen 'a' problem which they did and changed the crank sensor.
Im now back in the guessing game as neither has worked. Only thing i have been told is that possible worth changing the fuel filter but other than that am stuck.
Car runs fine when running, just has problems starting.
Rob
