Misfire, please help!!!!

8th May 2010, 15:26

My Saxo has been misfiring for the past 3 weeks, since the head gasket has been done, it's had the coilpack done, spark plugs done, cambelt done, lambda sensor done YET still misfiring every time I start the car and pull away (for about one minute then it's fine)

The misfires are worse / severe right after refueling the car, don't know if this gives a better indication to what it is??????

Please help

8th May 2010, 15:29

best bet might be to take it to local dealership / garage to get it on dyno m8

8th May 2010, 15:34

Was it done in a garage or by your self or a friend/ect ?

8th May 2010, 15:38

garage, but they reckon they've exhausted every possibility now and don't have the necessary kit to check other bits, so fed up.

8th May 2010, 15:40

Oh ok i was going to say might not of been skimmed proply but if it was a garage it should of been hmmm :\

8th May 2010, 15:41

exactly, just weird how it misfires worse after sticking fuel in the car - trying to drive out of petrol stations is a mission lol

8th May 2010, 15:43

Call the garage and ask them, But if they have cocked up i wouldnt take it back there

8th May 2010, 15:48

how much should of been skimmed off the head out of curiousity?

9th May 2010, 05:10

the minimum, its only skimmed to make sure its flat and not warped at all.

try taking it to citroen, they charge £60(+vat

) to do the diagnostics but since you seem to have tried everything else they may be able to source it.

one of my vts's has a misfire at the moment so im sort of in the same boat. luckily we have a citroen garage in town now but they couldnt source mine as this vts has had a lot of unnecessary bits taken off it. going to change the lambda and see if that sorts it

they correctly diagnosed a standard vts that i bought with a misfire before though so its not always a waste of £70, it just was this time for me