clio 182
FFS! after breaking down and having a new coil pack and (I was told) 1 sparkie changed fitted about 2 months ago, guess what happened!
car sounded like an impreza again! fook sake! pulled up to some lights and the emmissons light started flashing just like it did 2 months ago. but strangely no loss of power.... so i limped it home having checked i got home start on AA and phoned them. turned up after about 45mins. explained to him the problem and told him about the last time it broke down and what fixed it. after looking and fiddling with coil pack he said that it wasnt that and that it could be the spark plugs or injector as the computer code was saying "cycinder 1 misfire" after fooking about n trying to get the inlet off get got the sparkies out and finding that on of the spark plug lead was trapped between too bits of metal on cycinder 1 and it had nearly cut thru the wire, i was abit pissed off as the garage who fixed it must of trapped the wire, he checked all the sparkies and he couldnt work out which one they had changed so did they actually change one!? who knows. a phone call to the garage 1st thing monday will be in order! he advised me to change all the sparkies as they were NGK ones and he said french cars dont like NGK n work better on french plugs. quick phone call to halford for some "champion" plugs as he had a traders card = half price and 20mins later i had a running car!
TOP TIP, he said i would stay clear of CHAMPION spark plugs n use NGK ones but on french cars they dont seem to like NGK. and he said to always use CHAMPION plugs.
dunno if its me but it seems to run smoother now..
