Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 rite its hard to explane but say I've drove to work and its all running fine, then 10 mins when i have to go out again i start the car and it has a little missfire and the idle is poor say around 700rpm, its really confusing me!anyone know what it mite be?cheers josh Quote
greasemonkeyspb Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 the best thing to do would be to try the cheapest options first mate like taking out the spark plugs and leads etc to look for electrodes burning out or deterioration of the leads or the spark plugs which may be causing a low spark on one cylinder at leat these things are relatively cheap to try a diagnostic check could dtermine a fault and which cylinder its coming from but it all depends upon the engine management light coming on for the ecu to store a fault.keep me posted though as this is interesting matey. Quote
Nads Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 Has it been raining mate? Mines doing the same dude... its the rain coming through the bonnet scoop and going in to the ignition leads and sparkies.. which is causing it to missfire Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 13, 2011 Author Posted January 13, 2011 will do mate im guna have a good look over the weekend see what i can find!Has it been raining mate? Mines doing the same dude... its the rain coming through the bonnet scoop and going in to the ignition leads and sparkies.. which is causing it to missfireyes it is mate hmmm il give them all a whipe down and see if i can see any sign of water! cheers Quote
greasemonkeyspb Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 yeah damp is the worst thing for your leads dude ford focus suffer with the holes for the leads and the plugs filling up with water which cause heavy missfires loli know its different car but same thing applies to any ht leads Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 13, 2011 Author Posted January 13, 2011 greasemonkey where you from in the west midlands? Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 13, 2011 Author Posted January 13, 2011 just saw you was from west midlands il be up by walsall tommorrow (y) Quote
greasemonkeyspb Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 oh cool lol whereabouts???im working tomorrow lol lots of cars need fixing lolstourbridge aint far from walsall i take it then???lol im useless with distances hhahahahahhahahaa Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 13, 2011 Author Posted January 13, 2011 basicly next to halesowen lol yeh im going on a vehicle vinyl wrapping corse up in lichfield and then dropping some stickers off to a friend in burntwood? james russle if you know him but on the weekend il have a look at my plugs and all that, maby upgrade to some magnicores Quote
greasemonkeyspb Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 Im glad you have mentioned that as i want my car vinyl wrapped after i have sorted bodywork dents lol might have to contact you hahano name doesnt ring a bell but my sister lives there im actually two mins from there i live in brownhills lol just cross the a5 from burntwood lol well close in fact man small world aint it Quote
Josh@TunerLifestyle Posted January 15, 2011 Author Posted January 15, 2011 bit of an update! its not the king lead thats causing the misfire, so tommorrow going to check the plugs also no sign of wet leads or plugs! Quote
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