Adamski Legacy Donating Member 277 Member For: 15y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Posted 05/02/14 10:02 AM Posted 05/02/14 10:02 AM Hey guys, Took off from an intersection today trying to get out into traffic and while under almost WOT I hit a wet patch of road and the traction control kicked in (pretty violently) and the car immediately began to misfire. Limped it home (only half a km) and sounds like pile of shyt. Starts fine but runs like crap. Got RACQ on the way around to see what they can see. It still has the original valve springs in it and has 124,000k, could one of these be busted??
Adamski Legacy Donating Member 277 Member For: 15y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Posted 05/02/14 10:17 AM Author Posted 05/02/14 10:17 AM RACQ have been and he says could have dropped a coilpack? It does smell very fuelly while running, so could be right.
MiKa Legacy Donating Member 4,243 Member For: 20y 28d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 05/02/14 12:14 PM Posted 05/02/14 12:14 PM Mine has the same problem... Took off hard TC kicked in, then since it has a bad miss.. Ive got new coil packs and new plugs, hopefully that'll sort it out..
Adamski Legacy Donating Member 277 Member For: 15y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Posted 05/02/14 08:06 PM Author Posted 05/02/14 08:06 PM Mine's pretty much undrivable at the moment.
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Legacy Donating Member 19,334 Member For: 20y 11m 26d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/02/14 12:58 AM Posted 06/02/14 12:58 AM Can you pull any code from it? I it's the BA in your AVI I would be willing to be the cams have done a little hop skip and jumped a couple of teeth.
MiKa Legacy Donating Member 4,243 Member For: 20y 28d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 06/02/14 02:19 AM Posted 06/02/14 02:19 AM Well that would suck... Gonna do my coils and plugs this weekend so fingers crossed...
Adamski Legacy Donating Member 277 Member For: 15y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Posted 06/02/14 03:08 AM Author Posted 06/02/14 03:08 AM Can you pull any code from it? I it's the BA in your AVI I would be willing to be the cams have done a little hop skip and jumped a couple of teeth. How would I do that mate?
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Legacy Donating Member 19,334 Member For: 20y 11m 26d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/02/14 03:12 AM Posted 06/02/14 03:12 AM You'll need a decent code reader. Do you have an Xcal 2 or 3?
Adamski Legacy Donating Member 277 Member For: 15y 2m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Posted 06/02/14 03:18 AM Author Posted 06/02/14 03:18 AM No mate. There's no engine light or anything on
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Legacy Donating Member 19,334 Member For: 20y 11m 26d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/02/14 03:20 AM Posted 06/02/14 03:20 AM Hunt down a decent code reader mate. That will tell you if its a coil pack/plug or something more sinister.
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