stutter on acceleration

1. viciousjello Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 Boston Posts: 156 Year 2000 Saxo VTR

   #1 7th April 2010, 01:58

   Hi, hope someone can help as i am at a loss, on my way home tonight my saxo vtr seems to have developed a stutter, coming off roundabouts in second or sometimes third, it will stutter slightly, like hesitate before it clears and goes away, any ideas?
   
   by the way its standard apart from an induction kit, which a week or so ago had a new filter element, didnt seem to make any difference at first lol.
   
   cheers all
2. viciousjello Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 Boston Posts: 156 Year 2000 Saxo VTR

   #2 7th April 2010, 14:29

   Update, took car for a run, engine management light now on and runs in limp home mode lol, any ideas anyone, have got it booked in for a diagnostic tomorrow.
3. gaz4399 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jul 2007 Chester Posts: 2850 1275 mini

   #3 7th April 2010, 14:30

   sounds like it could be the coilpack
4. viciousjello Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 Boston Posts: 156 Year 2000 Saxo VTR

   #4 7th April 2010, 14:36

   Yer that was my first thought
5. viciousjello Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 Boston Posts: 156 Year 2000 Saxo VTR

   #5 8th April 2010, 16:17

   ok, its been for a diagnostic, it just came up as a wiring fault, and nothing else, anyone on here have any ideas? still pointing towards a coil pack or something else? cheers.
6. Gordon Frequent Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 543 Phase-II VTR

   #6 8th April 2010, 17:50

   I had this with my old Furio. Pull over, disconnect the battery until you hear the relays reset themselves and it then ran fine, however, came back occasionally. Repeating the process each time sorted it out.
   
   I sent it back to Citroen countless times for it, the ended up replacing the ECU and to be honest it still did it from time to time.
   
   I've had a similar fault with the VTR. I replaced the coilpack but it made no difference. Mysteriously, a week or so later it cleared its self up and i've never had it happen since. Looking back, it all started during a spell of very wet weather and went away after the weather became nice again.
7. viciousjello Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 Boston Posts: 156 Year 2000 Saxo VTR

   #7 8th April 2010, 20:06

   hmm food for thought i guess, apparently ive got either a break in the wiring, a fault with the stepomotor (idle control valve) or the coilpack... trying not to replace everything lol
8. clubbz Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2009 Shropshire Posts: 454 Black Saxo VTR

   #8 9th April 2010, 00:03

   This happened to mine and i got told to change the coilpack and sparkplugs did so and it made no difference what so ever turned out to be head compression in the end lol... not a nice pay out..
9. stingray1987 Regular Poster Joined: May 2008 Stoke on Trent Posts: 421

   #9 9th April 2010, 00:32

   if it has sent the engine light on then take it to a garage and they will read the fault code. it saves u replacing everything and not fixing the problem. its worth £20 even if u just get a backstreet garage to read the code on their code reader and then u do the repair urself once u know where to look.
10. user_12308 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Nov 2006 The Lang Toun Posts: 4133 Mk2 Clio V6 #007 of 354

    #10 9th April 2010, 02:29

    could be a few things but i had a similar problem on my mk1 vts (no engine managment light on them though took it citroen), was diagnosed as a faulty oxygen sensor.
    
    as mentoned though it could well be a coilpack, see if you can borrow one/get a shot of one and that would eliminate one possibility anyway