05-02-2013, 01:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-02-2013, 08:54 PM by Jonny81191.)
Sorted my aux belt yesterday, was fine at idle and putting it out the garage onto the drive.
Got up this morning to go to work (it was quite cold, maybe -1) and it started up fine as normal. Left it idling for a couple of minutes while I cleared the windscreen.
As I pulled up the drive, I thought I heard a heavy knock, but it's hard to hear anything as there's a slight clearance issue regarding the strut brace and lower engine mount
Off down the road, taking it easy, there's schoolkids everywhere and the engine's cold. Car felt fine. Nice and quiet without that buggered aux tensioner.
Then as I went out of the village, I noticed what felt like a lack of power, similar to the issue I had when I had no air intake and had left the MAF plugged in. Ignored it thinking it was maybe just me.
Got maybe another 100 metres and the engine just died. No EML on though. Had a quick glance under the bonnet, couldn't see anything wrong, tried to start it, and it started up fine, but was a bit lumpy. So carried on to turn around so I could go back home and if I went over about 1500rpm it cut out.
Crawled back home, it cut out twice more on the way back, seemed to misfire like crazy then cut out and die if i tried to accelerate in any way or exceed about 1500rpm. But then started again on the key straight away.
Thoughts?
Oh and of course it's now snowing so I have a lovely warm and relaxing evening ahead of me.
Got up this morning to go to work (it was quite cold, maybe -1) and it started up fine as normal. Left it idling for a couple of minutes while I cleared the windscreen.
As I pulled up the drive, I thought I heard a heavy knock, but it's hard to hear anything as there's a slight clearance issue regarding the strut brace and lower engine mount
Off down the road, taking it easy, there's schoolkids everywhere and the engine's cold. Car felt fine. Nice and quiet without that buggered aux tensioner.
Then as I went out of the village, I noticed what felt like a lack of power, similar to the issue I had when I had no air intake and had left the MAF plugged in. Ignored it thinking it was maybe just me.
Got maybe another 100 metres and the engine just died. No EML on though. Had a quick glance under the bonnet, couldn't see anything wrong, tried to start it, and it started up fine, but was a bit lumpy. So carried on to turn around so I could go back home and if I went over about 1500rpm it cut out.
Crawled back home, it cut out twice more on the way back, seemed to misfire like crazy then cut out and die if i tried to accelerate in any way or exceed about 1500rpm. But then started again on the key straight away.
Thoughts?
Oh and of course it's now snowing so I have a lovely warm and relaxing evening ahead of me.
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