Important! : Engine knackered??

1. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

   #1 27th October 2009, 19:29

   My engine started judderin today while i was driving it, it seemed like there was no fuel getting too it and was loosing power when i tried to accelerate,
   
   when i tried to start it again later on it started backfiring and making spittin noises then cut out, it kept doing that for about 15 mins then started working again but was still juddering
   
   now it wont stay on for anymore than 2 seconds it keeps cutting out
   
   anyone know what could be wrong with it or experienced the same problems??
   thanks
2. BobCm Forum Section Moderator Joined: Apr 2009 Orpington Posts: 1406 My son drives a Poseidon Blue Saxo Mk2 1.6i VTR.

   #2 27th October 2009, 19:43

   Hi,
   
   Has the fuel filter been changed? There is a long list of possible causes which relate to these...
   
   1) Electrical
   2) Fuel mixture
   3) Compression
3. user_26566 Established Member Joined: Aug 2008 harlow/ essex Posts: 1414 stealth Vtr/S

   #3 27th October 2009, 19:44

   sounds like the fuel filter to mee
4. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

   #4 27th October 2009, 19:49

   last service was about 15000 mile ago, fuel filter got changed then, could be doing with a service
5. woopasize Infrequent Poster Joined: Jul 2009 isle of shite Posts: 155 Saxo lx 1.1

   #5 27th October 2009, 20:08

   sounds like the same problems im having was fine through the summer and had only recently been serviced and mot'd.
   A little bit of bad weather and cars playing up something kronik!
6. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

   #6 27th October 2009, 20:08

   anyone else know what it could be?
7. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

   #7 27th October 2009, 20:09

   yeah i was thinkin maybe the colds givin it some problems but it was just as cold yesterday and it was working fine
8. VT_Cai Newbie Joined: Jun 2009 S.Wales Posts: 4 Saxo VTS, Ex 106 gti and 306 Dturbo owner

   #8 27th October 2009, 20:10

   my vts was kinda doing that, ended up putting it on the diagnostics and it turned out to be the map sensor, changed that and sorted it out been running better then ever, not sure where the map sensor is on a 1.1 though sorry
9. Marky_C Established Member Joined: Nov 2008 Leeds Posts: 1361 Zetec S TDCI

   #9 27th October 2009, 20:11

   Same happened to me when my headgasket went
10. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

    #10 27th October 2009, 20:13

    i'm going to take it to the garage tommorow and get them to check it over,
    
    there could be loads of thing wrong with just wondering if anyone else had came across the same problems
    cheers for the quick replies
11. woopasize Infrequent Poster Joined: Jul 2009 isle of shite Posts: 155 Saxo lx 1.1

    #11 27th October 2009, 20:19

    yeh i had mine checked on the diagnostics machine today and evrything was reading well but i still had the juddering, misfiring, spluttering etc so he told me to go up the scrappy and get a stepper motor as a first solutiong then go from there, these things are all a process of elimination
12. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

    #12 27th October 2009, 20:31

    hopefully its not that serious
13. j_marshall Newbie Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 1

    #13 29th October 2009, 10:10

    i duno if this helps at all not the best with cars but was out my with my m8 in his VTR the other day and this sort of thing started happening we thought she had died just turnt out to be a dodgey Earth bit of sand paper cleaned it up and she was a goer again
14. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

    #14 29th October 2009, 11:45

    just changed the fuel filter an hour and it didnt do any difference
    it was strugling to start and sounded like a stock car, managed to take it to the garage
    
    they reckon its a chocked cat
    there gonna phone me later and let me know
15. user_27812 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Fife, Scotland Posts: 253 Silver Furio

    #15 31st October 2009, 02:28

    turns out it was only needing spark plugs
    cars running perfectly now

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