Fuel Starvation at below 1/4 tank MY99

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12 February 2003, 06:52 PM

MKC

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My MY99 has had 4 engines in 12 months due to ecu fault (see elsewhere) however, I am still paranoid that it has problems. I have noticed that when I have just under a quarter of a tank (1mm below on guage), hard cornering and fast acceleration causes it to run slightly rough. Is this normal..??? Thanks...

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12 February 2003, 08:12 PM

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The only time I have had fuel briefly cut out is when the fuel light was on (9 litres left on a MY99) and going round a roundabout at speed.

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13 February 2003, 08:38 AM

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MKC,

It happens on my W reg P1 too.. when going a bit heavy on the gas around those luvlee concrete circles we call roundabouts ;0) LOL

Fill him up with optimax, and he's a happy chappy ...

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14 February 2003, 11:57 AM

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MKC if you are having fuel starvation pretty bad you might want to look at changing your fuel pump.
The standard ones are not really that great.

Mel.