Friday morning blues

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MR2Kyle
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Friday morning blues

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How are we feeling today? Now today I noticed something rather odd...my check engine light (!) flashed on and back off again when I was accelerating hard....any ideas of what this could be?
Thanks in advance :thumleft:
craig
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Re: Friday morning blues

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MR2Kyle wrote:How are we feeling today? Now today I noticed something rather odd...my check engine light (!) flashed on and back off again when I was accelerating hard....any ideas of what this could be?
Thanks in advance :thumleft:


Feeling great dude, thanks :D

Is this a turbo you're talking about? Sounds like fuel cut due to overboosting. Could be the cold weather, or even a decat and exhaust!

Diagnostics check should reveal error code 34 if this is correct.
MR2Kyle
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Re: Friday morning blues

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She's a na rev 3 if that helps at all... She's also missing at just under 2000rpm when cold or wet and it feels like it has a power lag unless you put the accelorator pedal past a certain point....the joys of motoring haha
craig
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Re: Friday morning blues

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Sounds ignition related:

Plugs, leads, distributor cap, rotor arm, coil.

The coils on these cars are susceptible to the plastic casing getting brittle with age and cracking, allowing in moisture and poor running.
mr2garageswindon
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Re: Friday morning blues

Post by mr2garageswindon »

Sounds like the Intergalactic swizzle valve on the extrander beam corrupting the foogiefont anti coptional knarl return wizard to me!!

Or that could just be made up bolloc*s...

Check the codes, will give you a better chance of pinpointing the fault.
As previously said its prob ignition related.
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Re: Friday morning blues

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Distributor cap of evil..

:thumleft: get it checked.. water + electric = no power.
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