Had the car out for a run to blast out the cobwebs before its MOT and it was clear it was down on power, sounded very odd, then i started getting a flashing orange EML. Plugged it in and it wasn't logging any fault codes at all which was odd, messed about swapped a few sensors i had spare that i knew were good, no change.
Remebered when i first fitted the engine (its done 170k!) that Cyl 1 was showing 150psi where the rest were 170s
Out came the old heart breaker again...
Engine will be out at the weekend and ill strip it down for a look! I might rebuild it, I've never done an engine build before so its probably a good engine to learn on. But i have found out that a 2014 Dacia Duster uses the same non VVT K4M as this so i can probably get a low ish milage replacement for it!
I did think towards the tail end of last summer it wasn't feeling quite as fast as it used to but its never been a "fast" car so i did assume the novelty was just wearing off!