Won't start after wash
13 June 2016, 07:54 PM
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Won't start after wash
Can someone please help me,my car has NEVER missed a beat and was running perfect,powerful and then I washed it and now it won't run,hardly starts and when it does it's well lumpy and won't Rev up.it will only tickover if I keep pumping the throttle too.i was literally about to sell it too hence me washing it!!
13 June 2016, 08:13 PM
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tried that already mate.IF this is water related do you think it will eventually dry itself out?if for example something has got wet that I can't physically get to with wd40
13 June 2016, 08:17 PM
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When you say washed it how do you mean? Did u jet wash under the bonnet? Hopefully you might of got something damp and it may dry out
13 June 2016, 08:37 PM
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Well I had a guy coming with a bag containing £7k cash and so keen he even insured the car already!even had a 1 way train ticket So I panicked and quickly washed the car and normally use a pressure washer but as I didn't have time I get it all out so just washed it and then used buckets of water and kept chuckin buckets of water over it to
Rinse it off and water has obviously got in throught the big scoop on the front.it can't be anything else
Surely as it was running pukka before the wash
Rinse it off and water has obviously got in throught the big scoop on the front.it can't be anything else
Surely as it was running pukka before the wash
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14 June 2016, 09:22 AM
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yeah turns over,sometimes it will fire and if your quick and keep gently pumping the throttle it will sort of tick over but it's lumpy,popping,missing sound like a v8 lol
14 June 2016, 10:05 AM
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Well everything seems dry under the bonnet.i may have to take things further and start taking things apart and do what u said and check if I have a decent spark
14 June 2016, 12:03 PM
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My golf had this problem where it would rain and the car would struggle to start up. Turned it it needed a new ignition coil pack.
Might wana check that out on your scoob.
Might wana check that out on your scoob.
14 June 2016, 12:42 PM
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Well in this model it uses 4 single coils rather than 1 pack that branches of into 4 so that kinda rules out them as having 4 coils die at the same time seems unlikely and getting all 4 wet seems unlikely as there so far apart and in different sides.and convincing myself it's not the coils because they are £124 each 😬
14 June 2016, 12:49 PM
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Well in this model it uses 4 single coils rather than 1 pack that branches of into 4 so that kinda rules out them as having 4 coils die at the same time seems unlikely and getting all 4 wet seems unlikely as there so far apart and in different sides.and convincing myself it's not the coils because they are £124 each 😬
14 June 2016, 02:01 PM
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You can "technically" with some care jet wash your engine as long as you pay particular attention to alternator, filter ( if cone), intercooler and battery.
Anything else is pretty water resistant ( resistant to gentle or indirect water pressure) but all of them will not like huge bucket loads of water being chucked at them. Thing is , if like you say, you did this with bonnet closed then very little is accessible or visible only via the scoop. The only item that could be affected is the intercooler. But then it would be a case of bent fins.
So not sure how you managed this to be honest
Anything else is pretty water resistant ( resistant to gentle or indirect water pressure) but all of them will not like huge bucket loads of water being chucked at them. Thing is , if like you say, you did this with bonnet closed then very little is accessible or visible only via the scoop. The only item that could be affected is the intercooler. But then it would be a case of bent fins.
So not sure how you managed this to be honest
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You can "technically" with some care jet wash your engine as long as you pay particular attention to alternator, filter ( if cone), intercooler and battery.
Anything else is pretty water resistant ( resistant to gentle or indirect water pressure) but all of them will not like huge bucket loads of water being chucked at them. Thing is , if like you say, you did this with bonnet closed then very little is accessible or visible only via the scoop. The only item that could be affected is the intercooler. But then it would be a case of bent fins.
So not sure how you managed this to be honest
Anything else is pretty water resistant ( resistant to gentle or indirect water pressure) but all of them will not like huge bucket loads of water being chucked at them. Thing is , if like you say, you did this with bonnet closed then very little is accessible or visible only via the scoop. The only item that could be affected is the intercooler. But then it would be a case of bent fins.
So not sure how you managed this to be honest
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