Help, my 75's started cutting out on me.....

[DaveFife]

Last night I went to see my Brother across in Edinburgh in the car. When I came to leave, the car started normally, then started to idle roughly and when I tried to give it some fuel by gently pressing the throttle pedal, it died on me.

Started her up again, exactly the same. Third time I started her I left it for a few seconds, it went from a rough idle to normal again so off I went.

I had to stop a couple of times on the way home for fuel etc. but each time I turned the engine off and went to restart it, the same thing would happen again.

Once the engine was started and moving at speed, the car behaved perfectly normal, but when I was travelling in slow moving traffic the engine tried to die on me 3 times. It didn't actually die, it kept catching itself just before it stalled, it would do this for a minute then go back to normal.

Any ideas please folks?

Many thanks.

[T-Cut]

I bet you've never heard of Fuel Filter Syndrome have you?

EDIT: Ignore that if it's the 1999 model you mention.

TC

[DaveFife]

Hi T-Cut,

funny you should say about the fuel filter because it does kind of feel like it's being starved of fuel.

I'm fairly sure date of first registration is 1999, I can double check that if it's important.

I've just been and cleaned the plenums out. They weren't completely blocked although there were a few leaves down there, the ECU apeared to be bone dry as did the plenum chamber itself.

Thanks

[T-Cut]

The current screw-together filter unit was introduced in 2001. Earlier cars have a single-piece unit which doesn't suffer FFS.

TC

[DaveFife]

Thanks T-Cut, I double checked and it was first registered in July '99 so definately not the FFS.

Anyone else have any ideas please, I've searchd the site for cutting out, dying, stalling etc. but not found the same problem.

Thanks in advance

Dave

[DaveFife]

Please folks, any ideas gratefully received.

Does she perhaps just need a damn good service?

She's been better today. Having not started her all week I decided to start her today and she started as normal. Drove here and there stopping and starting the engine. Was a small moment where I started her in Tesco's car park and she threatened to do what she'd done previously but she didn't and was then fine again.

Any ideas gratefully appreciated

Dave

[Scribbler.]

:lol: Hi Dave, not sure if it helps at all but .... try disconnecting the battery over night, this I believe allows the engine to reset to `default'. (?). Mine performed noticeably better after doing so and fitting a new battery. No doubt some of these more learned technical guys will come to your aid, good luck. Mike.
Ps: your radio will require recoding.

[DaveFife]

A quick update and further appeal for some help.

Put the car into the garage on Thursday. Just phoned them and they're waiting for a guy with a diagnostic machine - T4? - to turn up as they're not getting any readings with their equipment.

When I drove the car to the garage on Thursday it took a few attempts to start her and then she died on me half way there. She finally managed to get going again but now I'm told she's not starting at all.

Any ideas gratefully received and very much appreciarted.

[T-Cut]

The T4 should sort it. Anything else is just guessing.
Let us know what they find.

TC

[stocktake]

Hi Dave, just to echo what T-Cut says. It appears that none of us have come across this problem so it seems pointless guessing. (don't think we are ignoring you)

Hopefully we can all learn something when yours is fixed

Dave... (1999 2.5. So I'm very interested in the outcome )