Colinj

I was accelerating smoothly off a Mway slip road when my car hesitated then lost power - resulting in me having to crawl home running very bad(3 cylinders) misfiring and running very rich! There was no lights or anything on dash lit up!

I have had a mechanic round to look at it and says there is nothing showing up on the diagnosis but there is no back pressure and could possibly be piston or coilpack/plug problem. Car is being uplifted on Tuesday to go to the workshop for further investigation, compression test etc!

Has anyone else had problems like this? I have only owned the car 4 weeks and find it strange for something to just go like that without warning.

Any idea on how hard this may hit my pocket to get fixed?

Any advice greatly appreciated

markwild

Colin, it'll help if you can provide more info on the car... e.g. is it standard (if not, what mods), what model year is it, what type is it (i.e. JDM, UK, Turbo)

Is it under any warranty ? If not, where are you based - someone may advise a good place to take it....

Mark

Colinj

Sorry I forgot to add that! The car is a 96 UK Turbo with PPP, only modification is a PiperX induction kit (came with the car!) has 81000k on the clocks and has service stamps from day 1 and cambelt done recently - prior to this the car was running very well, no problems at all, run on optimax mostly sometimes BP sul. I havnt thrashed the car, just been enjoying the performance.

Car isnt under warranty unfortunatly and I am based in Central Scotland, car is already booked into a Jap Specialist for next week.

markwild

Could be worth taking the plugs out, just to check which cylinder isn't firing - may reveal something too.... - an hours work tops

Colinj

This will be done when it gets taken away on Tuesday (and im not very good with engines at all) so I would rather leave it to someone that knows what there doing.

Im really looking to see if anyone has had similar problems and what turned up to be the cause, also what kind of money to repair.

Colinj

TTT

DaveR

I had exactly the same problem on my TEK3'd decatted MY02 WRX a month or so ago. In addition to the symptoms you describe, I had a Check Engine light come on (and stay on), and also the engine was shaking like buggery in the engine bay.

Had the car transported to Xtreme scoobies in Essex, they did a compression test and checked the CEL code and the end diagnosis was a coil pack which they replaced (can't remember exactly how much the pack cost but not more than £50-60 I think, plus about £35 for the compression test).

What they did say was that the compression figures for one of the chambers was lower than brilliant, although not a problem yet (maybe in a year or so's time) - they were reading 140-140-140-125 (all four should read about 150 when new).

Only reason I mention this is that when one of them drops to about 90, you need to start thinking about an engine rebuild - so I hope this hasn't happened to you.

best of luck
DaveR

DaveR

PS my car has done about 47K miles ........ (but I think a coil pack going may just be the luck of the draw rather than high mileage)