PB172
Okay so lately been noticing that the 172 has been a bit slow at rising the revs in lower gears making it a bit jumpy and slow to begin with.
I drove from my house to a friends house, about 3 miles away, no different to normal just as I said before a little bit slow jumpy sloppy and generally not smooth through the revs. Stopped at his for a bit watched a film then as we got in the clio to go back to mine the engine suddenly became really loud, as if there where 2 tones to the engine.
Noticed a massive lack in speed and response, started smelling a funky smell and then the best part... the amber engine management light started to flash...
Anyone got a foggy idea what it could be? We tried plugging my mates cheapo fault reader into the 172 but it said there where no recorded faults... :/ Surely if the EM light came on there would of been a fault recorded... Otherwise it kinda defeats the point of the light doesn't it?
Does it sound like a possible catalytic converter problem? Or something else?
Had a look at the intakes and the air box adapter was kinda hanging off the throttle body as well... I'm betting this didn't do it any good. Tried to tighten it up to discover that the jubilee clip was knackered... Replaced that and left it for an hour to start it up again to find it was a little more stable but still not normal... Engine ticks over fine... It's been fully serviced by Mick @ Diamond Motors not long ago so everything should be mint the engine so I'm looking at something else I hope!
Any help would be majorly helpful before I take it a local garage to see what they say...
Cheers!
I drove from my house to a friends house, about 3 miles away, no different to normal just as I said before a little bit slow jumpy sloppy and generally not smooth through the revs. Stopped at his for a bit watched a film then as we got in the clio to go back to mine the engine suddenly became really loud, as if there where 2 tones to the engine.
Noticed a massive lack in speed and response, started smelling a funky smell and then the best part... the amber engine management light started to flash...
Anyone got a foggy idea what it could be? We tried plugging my mates cheapo fault reader into the 172 but it said there where no recorded faults... :/ Surely if the EM light came on there would of been a fault recorded... Otherwise it kinda defeats the point of the light doesn't it?
Does it sound like a possible catalytic converter problem? Or something else?
Had a look at the intakes and the air box adapter was kinda hanging off the throttle body as well... I'm betting this didn't do it any good. Tried to tighten it up to discover that the jubilee clip was knackered... Replaced that and left it for an hour to start it up again to find it was a little more stable but still not normal... Engine ticks over fine... It's been fully serviced by Mick @ Diamond Motors not long ago so everything should be mint the engine so I'm looking at something else I hope!
Any help would be majorly helpful before I take it a local garage to see what they say...
Cheers!
