AutoJacob

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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Stalker said:

    Get a multimeter on those injectors :rolleyes:

    Have done all reading 12.5 ohms

    23 hours ago, have a word with the wife said:

    what is this ?

    as i suggested / asked earlier, have you changed the map sensor ?

    why ? because the vacum control valve is  NOT  the map sensor ...........

    Changed map sensor and no difference.. I'm thinking that the exhaust might be blocked as at low revs it's fine only when under load / high revs does it misfire.

    1 hour ago, have a word with the wife said:

    borrow a vacum gauge, gauge slowly reading down indicates a blocked exhaust or a fault in the cat BUT a blocked exhaust would not give a misfire, not used jump pack have you ? 

    Ok I'll see what this brings and nope not had to jump it.

  2. Posted

    20 hours ago, have a word with the wife said:

    what is this ?

    as i suggested / asked earlier, have you changed the map sensor ?

    why ? because the vacum control valve is  NOT  the map sensor ...........

    Changed map sensor and no difference.. I'm thinking that the exhaust might be blocked as at low revs it's fine only when under load / high revs does it misfire.

  3. Posted

    Ok so here's where we are up to. Compression test cyl 1 190 psi, cyl 2 195 psi, cyl 3 185 psi. Replaced spark plugs, all three coils, drained the tank and filled with fresh fuel, replaced vacuum control valve, checked connectors for any corrosion, checked ECU for corrosion, replaced injector rail.

    New codes are P0300 misfire cylinder 3 and P0303 Random misfire on multiple cylinders.

    3 hours ago, boring dave said:

    you cant get a simpler engine these days than these 3 pots

    but they need 3 things

    water

    oil

    petrol

     

    feed them bad stuff and like anything they will spit their dummy

    no cannybus on these too so good ole fashioned stand back plan of action sorts the real men out

    just watch the corner of the bonnet doesnt slice your head as you go in:(

    That's what we thought as well.. we have sold 20 - 30 of these little tin can cars this year and no problems what so ever.

  4. Posted · Edited by AutoJacob

    2 hours ago, pmpants said:

    We had an Aygo with same engine a while ago, running rough, smoking (but no fault codes), did compression test, swapped temp sensor, coil packs, plugs from another car we had here, then checked the tank.... The fuel smelt stronger of unleaded then fresh unleaded! Whipped the tank out and it had been missfuelled! Ran great on  just unleaded!!

    This is what I was thinking but my mechanic said he doesn't reckon it has.. going to drain it and put some fresh petrol in it would be nice to rule it out as it ran absolutely fine prior to this.

    2 hours ago, Mojo121 said:

    I don't think it's an ignition problem. What colour is the smoke?

    Sounds to me more like MAP sensor or EGR. Something is interrupting the smooth flow of air and fuel.

    The symptoms sound similar to every EGR we've changed to be honest.

    Really? You'd bin a C1 with a misfire? What do you do when you get more complex problems?

    EGR is a good shout, I'll get this done along with the potential that it might have just been missfuelled.

  5. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Tony911 said:

    From our experience this will most likely be a costly repair. Just cut your losses and move on to the next one 

    Not too fussed on what it takes, I've got a 10 plate crash damaged donor C1 here and can steal an engine or any electrical bits from it.. just looking for some pointers rather than playing parts darts.

  7. Posted

    Evening all,

    I have one of these delightful things going out on Saturday. Started it up yesterday and it was smoking its t!ts off and misfiring, it now does not smoke but the misfire is still there and it seems to have a lack of power when the EML is illuminated.

    At first there was no EML and now there is an EML for P0106 Inlet manifold pressure sensor signal coherence, looks like it has already had a brand new coil and spark plugs (x3).

    Parts replaced so far by us:

    3 coils, 3 spark plugs, Air filter, Vacuum control valve (solenoid), Injector rail.

    Head gasket isn't gone, I can see from viewing OBD data that there is a misfire on Cylinder 3 so we replaced the full fuel injector rail with a known working set, each injector is reading at 12.3 ohms.

    Has anyone else experienced this fault code before or do the symptoms sound similar?

  8. Posted

    Argue it all the way, people like this are absolute parasites and think they can pull a fast one because the law is on their side.

    No refund unless a full health check / mechanical inspection is done by an independent technician showing that there's no signs of missing parts and you have a programmed working key in hand.

  9. Posted · Edited by AutoJacob

    Just give up while you've still got your cash, you obviously have no idea mate or have anybody around you who does so I wouldn't waste your time.. you may as well go and have a good weekend in Vegas with your £200K.

    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but this is the cold hard truth and as a thread earlier last week pointed out this is not a thriving industry and it's feast or famine, mostly famine.

  11. Posted · Edited by AutoJacob

    Yeah just tax it via DD mate.. don't bother changing the v5 over.. everyone has their own way of doing things though so I'm sure someone will chirp in saying that this is against the law as you're not registered as the keeper and it's a trade vehicle blah blah.

  13. Posted

    It's an old Mini.. She's had 4 Months usage and done 4K mileage near enough.

    Just stand your ground and say it's a used car she's had 4 Months usage and done a lot of miles, the fault obviously wasn't present at the time of sale, it's her vehicle and therefore her responsibility to fix the vehicle.

    If she starts sending letters and making it official just offer a 50% contribution.

    The best case scenario is it doesn't cost you a penny and the worst case is it will cost a couple hundred quid.

  14. Posted

    14 minutes ago, EPV said:

    You had a low ball offer from someone off eBay and you’re still seething? 

    Yesterday my trusted garages set fire to one of my cars. It’s a long story but the story still ends with a giant hole in the engine bay where an engine used to be. Accidents happen and i’d forgotten about it a few hours later. 

    You could always just delete his email and forget about him. 

    What went wrong?

    Burn baby burn...

  19. Posted

    57 minutes ago, Dealer said:

    James, with 23k per month overheads i know what i need per week to make ends meet hence my post. If you run your enterprise a different way then good luck to you but I know what I need to cover the bases. 

    How do you sleep at night? £23K.. Per month.

  24. Posted

    On 11/1/2018 at 1:47 PM, Mat C said:

    Hi Dave, thanks for the 'Like' 

    I think the market is still there ( he says having not sold a car for 16 days! ) i was just moaning as my partner is bored of looking at my sad face! it always comes good.... well it has done for the last 20 years! I think the Mini market is still busy, we're very selective about our stock but its all kind of come at once, a few cashback high value deals and then all our capital's tied up and someone unplugs the phone. could just do with a few ££ back in the bank and re assess. We're going to possibly extend our service department in the new year so will scale down the sales side ( possibly just specialise in JCW models ) and stock 6-7 examples of these and push the service side as we seem to do well out of this locally and without really forcing it. There's definitely room for improvement and definitely more margin in servicing

    Have things got any better yet?

    Still quiet for us.. 

  25. Posted

    BCA is the go to for most traders but not much point bothering with auctions for 2 cars a month. You need to be doing 10 a month atleast to make auctions worthwhile as you may as well go and buy privately.

    I have 16 cars in stock currently and go auction once a week dependant on how busy we are.