Brad93
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Have come down to the south west for missus birthday.
Get right down to Glastonbury and the car started acting a bit funny.
Was in fifth cruising along at 60-70mph and then the power just kept absolutely dropping off until you let off the accelerator then put foot back on and if it wanted to you’d get a big clonk as the power came back on!
Pulled over, checked engine oil, checked coolant (already topped this up a little before we left), and checked air filter. Engine temp was sat at 90 consistently on the clocks.
Though engine bay felt hot so wound the windows down and turned the heating on.
Set off, 50-60 roads, then got to a roundabout after 10 minutes. Pulled away in first and absolutely lost all power, engine cut out, wouldn’t start. After about a minute (felt like an age) the car started and pulled into a petrol station.
Coolant a little over max, took some out to under max. Was still having issues.
Short journeys don’t seem too bad as I’ve then done from Glastonbury to westbury without any issues. But the car had cooled down completely.
I’m thinking it’s a coil pack/spark plug issue. I think this car is coil on plug.
1.4L ~ 80hp if I remember correctly.
Maybe it’s getting too hot and cooking the coils?
No idea. At a bit of a loss.
It’s overdue an oil change but it’s never got low and doesn’t burn oil or anything like that.
I picked oil and filter up this morning before I left as it goes.
Get right down to Glastonbury and the car started acting a bit funny.
Was in fifth cruising along at 60-70mph and then the power just kept absolutely dropping off until you let off the accelerator then put foot back on and if it wanted to you’d get a big clonk as the power came back on!
Pulled over, checked engine oil, checked coolant (already topped this up a little before we left), and checked air filter. Engine temp was sat at 90 consistently on the clocks.
Though engine bay felt hot so wound the windows down and turned the heating on.
Set off, 50-60 roads, then got to a roundabout after 10 minutes. Pulled away in first and absolutely lost all power, engine cut out, wouldn’t start. After about a minute (felt like an age) the car started and pulled into a petrol station.
Coolant a little over max, took some out to under max. Was still having issues.
Short journeys don’t seem too bad as I’ve then done from Glastonbury to westbury without any issues. But the car had cooled down completely.
I’m thinking it’s a coil pack/spark plug issue. I think this car is coil on plug.
1.4L ~ 80hp if I remember correctly.
Maybe it’s getting too hot and cooking the coils?
No idea. At a bit of a loss.
It’s overdue an oil change but it’s never got low and doesn’t burn oil or anything like that.
I picked oil and filter up this morning before I left as it goes.