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General => The garage => Topic started by: Oatcake on 19 August 2009, 19:28
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Just been sat at the lights 1.8 t aum all of a sudden started vibrating badly engine management light cam on so drove the car home engine man light flasheing under load gets home looks underneath exhaust is is having a fit and can smell burning any ides? all help greatly appreciated cheers
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so is it just the exhaust vibrating badly or the whole engine ?
if it bouncing round in the bay like a small kid with adhd that been fed a large quantity of blue smarties i would say. i would say somethine quite magor and mecanical has departed what it was attached to.
if it's not quite that bad ( and more likely ) it may have dropped a cylinder for some reason. pull the plugs have a look at them, read the fault codes and do a compression test
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Cheers Danny
Had to send it to rehab :cry: it appears a breather pipe was ripped in half and caused a few probs noteably cyl 2 is misfiring (coilpack maybe) cam sensor is a fault and obviously the breather pipe/pipes and manifold gasket and injector seals have got to be replaced.
bad times :-( there goes my remap money