But the bloody thing wont start!
I left the car at the GF's while we went down to cornwall for a long weekend last week, when i got back she wouldnt start so tried all the usual WD40 in the dizzy etc as it'd been raining a fair bit and got a bit better but still wouldnt turn over.
I called the AA and they came out and got her running again by doing exactly the same as me but changed a couple of the plugs for spare and he told me i'd flooded the engine with petrol trying to start it (which i thought was smidge suspect seeing as i'd been trying to avoid this and not been overly persistant with the starting attempts)
To be fair to him he get the car running with the original plugs and told me i should be safe to drive it back to cardiff from bristol.
The thing was running really (REALLY) lumpy, not picking up from low revs but not stalling just hanging about about about 700 rpm, if i could coax her upt o revving then she'd drive fine (till the next set of traffic lights/roundabout when i took my foot off the gas i'd go back to the same thing. Impossible and down right dangerous to drive so i took it back to the gf's and borrowed her car and left mine in the garage to dry out.
5 days of a nice dry and fairly warm garage and i'm back to square 1 with the plugs sparking, fuel going to the engine, a battery full of juice and the thing not starting. Had new plugs/leads/dizzy/rota arm less than 1k miles ago.
Any ideas what to try next?
I left the car at the GF's while we went down to cornwall for a long weekend last week, when i got back she wouldnt start so tried all the usual WD40 in the dizzy etc as it'd been raining a fair bit and got a bit better but still wouldnt turn over.
I called the AA and they came out and got her running again by doing exactly the same as me but changed a couple of the plugs for spare and he told me i'd flooded the engine with petrol trying to start it (which i thought was smidge suspect seeing as i'd been trying to avoid this and not been overly persistant with the starting attempts)
To be fair to him he get the car running with the original plugs and told me i should be safe to drive it back to cardiff from bristol.
The thing was running really (REALLY) lumpy, not picking up from low revs but not stalling just hanging about about about 700 rpm, if i could coax her upt o revving then she'd drive fine (till the next set of traffic lights/roundabout when i took my foot off the gas i'd go back to the same thing. Impossible and down right dangerous to drive so i took it back to the gf's and borrowed her car and left mine in the garage to dry out.
5 days of a nice dry and fairly warm garage and i'm back to square 1 with the plugs sparking, fuel going to the engine, a battery full of juice and the thing not starting. Had new plugs/leads/dizzy/rota arm less than 1k miles ago.
Any ideas what to try next?
