just had to get towed home as my car was sufering from a serious missfire all was well did about 50miles before it started doing it then it just went crazy and wouldnt accelerate pulled over and it cut out, managed to get of the a1 stopped phoned for the aa when he turned up it started seemed ok then after a couple of mins the idle was searching abit.got home drove it of the transporter started ok again but after 5 mins idle started searching again
any ideas cheers steve (my99 uk)

 

ttt

 

Get her down to a dealer, she sounds like she needs to go on the diagnostic equipment, which will tell you precisely whats up with her

Tony

 

cheers anything i can check myself as dealers are closed

 

praps checks the plugs and coil packs while you wait to get it to the dealer?

 

sounds like it could be the coilpacks, mine has just done the same thing, totaly split one.

 

I would check for an earthing fault

 

as it is a my99 it doesn't have the 4 coil pack set up, that sounds like classic MAF failure.

its very common on the my99 cars, costs around £70 for a new one from the dealer.

hope this helps

 

so do i jonny checked for eror codes and it shows a 32 which is the lamba so hopefully something simple going to do a compresion test (advice from a good source) just to make sure it hasnt done anything seriousas it was badly missfireing

 

sometimes the MAF fault code doesn't show up even though the MAF has failed.

 

how can i check the maff to be certain then
cheers steve