02' PH1 172
Hey all, guess I'm another one suffering from this. Its doing my nutt in.
So let me give a very brief rundown on the history of my problem.
Now from digging around, I know that it can be either the leads (pretty sure they are good tho), the coil pack, one of the many sensors or the injectors.
Another thing thats gone wrong, and I'm not too sure if this would cause the problem that I have, is that from removing the intake to get to the plugs so many times, the back two bolts on the intake have stripped, so its only held tightly down by the front three bolts.
Can anyone shed some light? Its getting dark in here and im scared
So let me give a very brief rundown on the history of my problem.
- Bought the car at 37000miles, belts and everything were changed
- At first service, mechanic broke the knock sensor, didnt say anything, and when driving the car, anywhere around the 3k mark on the speedo, the car would bog down, misfire but not cut out, just continually lose power the longer my foot was held down. New knock sensor sorted this.
- At around 50000 miles I began to notice that when sitting in bumper to bumper traffic (car getting hot, but not on the temp gauge), the revs that normally idle between 500 and 750rpm would occasionally blip themselves to about 1500rpm and then drop down to normal idle. This would happen pretty much the whole time in traffic, and once out of traffic, car would run a little nasty but be fine in a few mins. No other problems at all on all other driving conditions including track days.
- I was in London for 2 years so car sat being drivin once a month by the folks. Got back (milage on about 59000miles) got stuck in a massive traffic jam, car started to blip as it did before in traffic, but got progressively worse, to the point that once it blipped and the revs started to come down, they wouldn't stop and the car cuts out.. in traffic.. and wont start unless pushed. Anyways, made it out, car starts to miss at about 3000rpm in all gears, drove it around on open road for about an hour, and it eventually became better and sorted itself.
- At about 64000miles, I took the car for a detail wash, fools stuck a pressured hose in the engine bay and upon pickup of the car, badly misfired all the way home. Obv water in the plugs.
- As it was due for another service and almost the belt service, I decided to replace the belts, plugs, oil, filter. Golt the plug wells dryed out and all the stuff put back in.
- Cars running pretty good, but then speedo sensor goes and I replaced it.
- Few days later car starts misfiring badly on start, narrow it down to the no.4 plug or lead.
- Replace the leads with MSD 8mm ignition cables built into the orig HT lead ends. Sorted no problems and running good again
- About a week later, car gets a slight miss in 5th and 4th, which does not happen very often, but the overall power on the car has gone to shite, and the miss is still there. Also my revs in traffic now are all over the place. Sometimes they are where they sould be, and other times, it just jumps continuously between 500 and 2000rpm, and then cuts out now and again.
Now from digging around, I know that it can be either the leads (pretty sure they are good tho), the coil pack, one of the many sensors or the injectors.
Another thing thats gone wrong, and I'm not too sure if this would cause the problem that I have, is that from removing the intake to get to the plugs so many times, the back two bolts on the intake have stripped, so its only held tightly down by the front three bolts.
Can anyone shed some light? Its getting dark in here and im scared
