Toxic Fume Light + Sounding Like a Bag of Spanners

[Bodge!]

Pulled out of a junction today, driving down the road as you do, car sort of jerked a little, and the "toxic fume" light came on!

Now car seems sluggish to drive, and generally sounds like a bag of spanners!

Just chucked £20 petrol in her, and it is still doing it!

Thinking coil pack?
Possible misfire? If so what can I do to sort it?

im gonna drop it into a garage tomorrow and see what he says, but anyone got any idea so i can give him a heads up?

Thanks!

 

[LISA172]

I had the same problem with my car last year and it was the lambda sensor

 

[b1lly]

happened to my wife's scenic this week, was one of the coils

 

[Bodge!]

Two things to mention to the garage!!

 

[Timmay]

prob go with coil pack tbh - usually one of em goes

 

[Bodge!]

Any idea of costings?

 

[Beef-Mc]

Cars a 1.6 ain't it? If so it doesn't have a coil pack, individual coils which you can test yourself.

 

[Bodge!]

Cars a 1.6 ain't it? If so it doesn't have a coil pack, individual coils which you can test yourself.

Yea its a 1600cc

Im about as mechanically minded as a fish!

Garage will have a butchers!

 

[Beef-Mc]

Ha me either but it's not hard to test the coils.
To test the coils you just pull one out at a time, if the engine note changes then the coils fine, if it doesn't change then you know you've got a knackered coil.

 

[xr2racer]

I would def reccomend testing the coils yourself rather than taking it to a garage. Exact same thing happened to my old 1.6. To remove a pencil coil all u need be able to do is take off the engine cover, undo 1 bolt and unclip the electric plug. Seriously simple, you will be kicking yourself for wasting money if you pay someone else to do it.

Think a coil cost me about £40, and rly easy to figure out which one is gone. Just take the electrical connection off them one by one and try to run the engine with one disconnected. If you disconnect a the bad one the engine will sound the same as its running at the moment. If you disconnect a good one it will probably fail to start and if it does it will be running terribly.

 

[Bodge!]

Right!

Its apparently NOT the coils

Going to ring a few local garages tomorrow to see what they think it is.

My old fella keeps mentioning the O2 sensor? This the same as the Lambda one?

 

[durham4416]

yes lambda sensor and 02 sensor are the same thing i think, my toxic fume light has just came on my 182 but hasnt affected running, need to get it diagnosed but working 7 days a week, can you work out if its post or pre cat lambda it its not affecting running, sorry to hi jack thread lol

 

[Scunny_182]

Coil pack, happened on my 182 last month. Tho my sounded like a crap impreza

 

[LISA172]

I had the same problem with my car last year and it was the lambda sensor

Thats what it was on my car last year, the oxygen sensor

 

[durham4416]

im not gunna know for sure till i get it diagnosed then am i, will the diagnostics tell me which lambda sensor is bust

 

[LISA172]

im not gunna know for sure till i get it diagnosed then am i, will the diagnostics tell me which lambda sensor is bust

As far as i know yes it does. Hope you get it sorted ok

 

[Bodge!]

Sorted.

Coil no1 had snuffed it.

took the AA fella 5 minutes to diagnose!