JonRobinson82
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Hi guys (and gals maybe)
I have a rather strange problem. My car started dying Friday evening (twice in Asda car park, once on the way out, once on the way onto the A13 and once on the way off the A13) before it just wouldn't start anymore and got a tow home from my dad. The next morning it started straight away from freezing cold but then died again within about 5 minutes. It has since being running for less and less time and taking more and more time to start again, to the point where it now won't start at all. It cranks fine although sounds like compression is being lost from a number of cylinders when the spark plugs are in, but a compression test on each cylinder with all spark plugs out shows approx 150 or more psi building up over 2 or 3 strokes. My mechanic friend has said that the loss of compression is most likely more to do with "washing the bore" due to only recently finding the fuel pump relay to stop fuel piling into the cylinders. The fuel pump seems to work fine btw lol and the compression tester I have is just a crappy gauge that screws in to the spark plug aperture so wouldn't trust the reading at all apart from it's reading something lol. I've recently replaced the single spark plugs with Bosch triple jobbies but that was just before it started dying and the car doesn't seem to act any different no matter what plugs are in it. It starts after being left for a while and dies pretty quickly. It still doesn't start now with old or new plugs. I've also replaced the crankshaft sensor (as I was receiving a camshaft position sensor circuit malfunction code on my mates diagnostic) but the eml has now stopped coming on since just before the engine started dying. I've checked all earth connections I could see and the throttle body looks good. In fact everything looks good and like it should run perfect, exactly as it was running between these periods of "sudden death"
Please help I'm reduced to cycling to work and that idea scares me with the weather we're getting now
I have a rather strange problem. My car started dying Friday evening (twice in Asda car park, once on the way out, once on the way onto the A13 and once on the way off the A13) before it just wouldn't start anymore and got a tow home from my dad. The next morning it started straight away from freezing cold but then died again within about 5 minutes. It has since being running for less and less time and taking more and more time to start again, to the point where it now won't start at all. It cranks fine although sounds like compression is being lost from a number of cylinders when the spark plugs are in, but a compression test on each cylinder with all spark plugs out shows approx 150 or more psi building up over 2 or 3 strokes. My mechanic friend has said that the loss of compression is most likely more to do with "washing the bore" due to only recently finding the fuel pump relay to stop fuel piling into the cylinders. The fuel pump seems to work fine btw lol and the compression tester I have is just a crappy gauge that screws in to the spark plug aperture so wouldn't trust the reading at all apart from it's reading something lol. I've recently replaced the single spark plugs with Bosch triple jobbies but that was just before it started dying and the car doesn't seem to act any different no matter what plugs are in it. It starts after being left for a while and dies pretty quickly. It still doesn't start now with old or new plugs. I've also replaced the crankshaft sensor (as I was receiving a camshaft position sensor circuit malfunction code on my mates diagnostic) but the eml has now stopped coming on since just before the engine started dying. I've checked all earth connections I could see and the throttle body looks good. In fact everything looks good and like it should run perfect, exactly as it was running between these periods of "sudden death"
Please help I'm reduced to cycling to work and that idea scares me with the weather we're getting now