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Offline danmusic24

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old running issue
« on: 27 May 2011, 08:55 »
Had a running issue a little while ago on my 2.0 8v…when you hit the accelerator the car would launch its self then hold back suddenly nearly throwing you through windscreen…
I changed a lot of things,lamda after getting fault code,plugs leads,dizzy etc….
The car ran fine after resetting ecu over night…
Now the problem has returned with a vengeance ..
Any help would be great

Offline Rmachines

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Re: old running issue
« Reply #1 on: 27 May 2011, 16:46 »
Its not the coil pack cutting out is it?
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Offline danmusic24

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Re: old running issue
« Reply #2 on: 27 May 2011, 16:57 »
no changed that a while ago...just done some searching on here and its quite poss the coolant temp sensor.just ordered one from ebay,hope that is the prob,its driving me mad  :smiley:

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Re: old running issue
« Reply #3 on: 27 May 2011, 17:18 »
Mine did this, it was the MAF. Sprayed a bit of contact cleaner on it (carefully) and been good as gold since! (about 6 months) :wink:
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