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Re: Someone to look at rough running car
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14th Apr 2016 8:33pm
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Are there any lights on the dash? Engine management light's been on for years with car running ok! Confusingly the problem started the other night when the card died at traffic lights. Breakdown guy found no output from alternator and flat battery. Recovered home and recovered again to auto electrician, both recovery drivers commented on how rough it was running when they loaded it. Went to pick it up from auto electrician today (was slipping belt, not alternator) and it was running like a dog, so had it recovered back home again! Auto electrician reckons it must be coincidence that slipping belt and whatever else is happening happened at the same time. I'm now wondering if low battery could have caused a problem with a nearly failing fuel pump?? (I'm no mechanic!) Have you tried unplugging the mass air flow? No. Can a MAF fail suddenly?
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Re: Someone to look at rough running car
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Technically anything can fail suddenly. Where abouts is the car? It could be a number of things. Is it petrol or diesel? Oxton Village. Petrol. I've just been out and disconnected the MAF. Idle speed was higher when I first started it but fell back again quickly. I drove around the block a couple of times and it certainly drives better with it disconnected (air temperature's dropped of course since I tried it a few hours ago if that makes any difference). Does that mean the MAF's at fault? Is it ok to drive with it disconnected as a temporary measure? I should have said before - auto electrician checked for error codes and found none.
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Re: Someone to look at rough running car
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14th Apr 2016 11:32pm
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Cheers, that would be great if you could. Whereabouts are you, or are you mobile?
To be quite honest, I'm not quite sure what the electrician checked, it was done as a favour when he was in the middle of locking up. Some years back I did the paperclip in the socket and count the flashes trick and as far as I remember there were two non-specific codes (or maybe one). I've just checked my ebay records and I bought a MAF for it a bit over four years ago to see if it would clear the light (it didn't). From the price I paid it wasn't an OEM part, don't know if that makes a difference?
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