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Kyle87
My bleeding car dies every year.
Bought a 1.4 Astra 2 years ago. It was 10 years old an had about 56k on the clock so seemed like a snatch.
Not long after buying it emissions warning light comes on and car start misfiring like a good un. Called rac and suggested maybe just needed Ngk spark plugs to solve it. Checked cylinder compressions, all fine.
Changed spark plugs no joy. Called rac again and told it needed a new coil pack. So I changed coil pack. No joy.
So into the garage it went. Garage basically said it was out of their scope and expected it to need a new injector. So I went to an injector specialist who found no problem with injector.
They changed ecu and sent me on my way.
10 month later it did the same. Took it back and they were baffled. Try gave my engine a powerflush and put oil with lubricants in and put the problem down to sticky valves. A problem common with cars with low mileage apparently.
10 month later (yesterday) emissions warning light comes on again.
It's been to an ordinary garage before.
It's been to an injector specialist before.
It's not going to main dealer.
It's going to a back yard grease monkey up the road and if he can't fix it it's going down the scrap yard!!!
Never buying a vauxhall again. When I had the zafira the heater matrix went and cost a bomb to fix.
Any mechanic wannabes here care to suggest what it could be. Why it's misfiring and showing dash light every 10 months or so
Bought a 1.4 Astra 2 years ago. It was 10 years old an had about 56k on the clock so seemed like a snatch.
Not long after buying it emissions warning light comes on and car start misfiring like a good un. Called rac and suggested maybe just needed Ngk spark plugs to solve it. Checked cylinder compressions, all fine.
Changed spark plugs no joy. Called rac again and told it needed a new coil pack. So I changed coil pack. No joy.
So into the garage it went. Garage basically said it was out of their scope and expected it to need a new injector. So I went to an injector specialist who found no problem with injector.
They changed ecu and sent me on my way.
10 month later it did the same. Took it back and they were baffled. Try gave my engine a powerflush and put oil with lubricants in and put the problem down to sticky valves. A problem common with cars with low mileage apparently.
10 month later (yesterday) emissions warning light comes on again.
It's been to an ordinary garage before.
It's been to an injector specialist before.
It's not going to main dealer.
It's going to a back yard grease monkey up the road and if he can't fix it it's going down the scrap yard!!!
Never buying a vauxhall again. When I had the zafira the heater matrix went and cost a bomb to fix.
Any mechanic wannabes here care to suggest what it could be. Why it's misfiring and showing dash light every 10 months or so
