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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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7th Feb 05 at 01:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cars been recently not starting intermittently.
most of the time it will start first time off the button, but then others it'll crank and crank for ages, but not fire.
when it does this a bump start usually gets it going, so i'd just been goiing along like that.
today it cut out coming out o a junction. tried starting it again, just turns over and over......
tried bump starting it a few times which did nothing other than toally knacker my mate out

bit the bullet and called the AA. took no time for a van to arrive this time.
he did all the usual checks and finds there's no spark.
first thinks the crank angle sensor wiring is shorting out against something. then plays about with the hall sensor on the dizzy, before popping his head in the cabin and noticing my ecu is dangling.

it's been like that since i did the engine, and i'd not got round to putting it back behind the kick panel.
he has a wee fiddle and gives it another go. fires up straight away.

turns out that the wiring plug had come loose from where the ecu was floating about in the footwell.
how much of a muppet did i feel?

i signed the form and was sent on my way. nice bloke, but he must of thought i was a twat.
getting the kick panel back in is now top of my list of priorities.
Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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7th Feb 05 at 01:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote



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Oh wait mines like that too
Skipz
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Registered: 23rd Aug 03
Location: Falkirk: Drives:nothing but gettin another Corsa
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7th Feb 05 at 01:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
easily done

[Edited on 07-02-2005 by h18_oab]
Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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7th Feb 05 at 10:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Dumbass

At least its sorted now

My 2L now also won't start Its been off the road for afew weeks now cos of the drive shaft problem & im thinking maybe the cold has just got to it. Once the blue one has been sold I am gonna stick it in the garage all day with the heaters on full & hope that sorts it

Or I could use my AA homestart
SteveW
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Registered: 15th Jul 02
Location: Up in the clouds
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7th Feb 05 at 10:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
mine is also like this

always nice to know that it wasnt anything serious and costly
1600power
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
Location: Shropshire Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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7th Feb 05 at 11:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
LAZY! this will teach ya to leave a job 95% complete!

 
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