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Old 13th March 2019, 20:34   #12
hogweed
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Originally Posted by Hellfire127 View Post
It is weird how it starts again after waiting a few minutes. When it first started doing this it was about a year ago, it was just once or twice in that time. the last three months the car has become unreliable as you never know if you are going to cut out or not. the strange thing is that it always starts again after a few minutes wait.

That happened with mine - then, over many months, it gradually got worse. When we got to the winter, it wouldn't start at all when cold.


Eventually took the ECM out - it was dry, but at some stage in the past clearly hadn't been (tide mark on the internal circuit board). Brian fixed it, as above.


No guarantee that's what you've got of course, but it sounds plausible, doesn't it...
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