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andymc1973

2011 Corsa 1.4 SRI P0171

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bought this last week and it seemed to be a lovely little car, on the drive home it put the spanner light on and seemed to have a miss/hesitation, called surecheck and as usual its not covered, we scanned the code and got back P0171 System Too Lean ' BANK 1, anyway cleared the code and it hasn't come back but the miss is still there

Anyone come across this before we start throwing parts at it?

 

Andy

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check for air leaks split pipes to begin, does this thing have a maf ? does it have normal air filter ? [or k&n ] unplug the maf, take it for a drive, see if misfire goes [ this will put light on ]

Edited by have a word with the wife

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Unplugged the maf and miss still there and didn’t put the light on 

and no it hasn’t been blanked 

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well i don't deal in corsas but i know when i did you couldn't disconnect the maf to get  it to work on the ecu fall back figures you had to nick one off another corsa and see if that was the fault,also the ones i bought of ebay were crap they lways needed a £90 dealer one (factors bosch)

maf usually wont show a fault code either so you need to look at live data

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Is your scanner able to give live data? Have a look at the lamba readings

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yes its off to auto electricians just wondered if anything obvious, rough day today with one thing or another

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Surely coil pack and plugs are the first things to look at?

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How many Corsas did you buy - 3?

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Lean codes are usually an air leak? EGR? Map sensor? - Air leaks are rare as they don't have a lot of pipework, id go with  MAP sensor - live data is going to be your friend.

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Worth doing a compression check,seen that code coupled with a slight miss/hesitation was burned valve,had it on polo and corsa and fiat 500(tho the 500 was actually tight tappets,was shim type tappets and someone had been there before and cocked up)keep us informed!!! 

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coil pack and plugs! a resistor had melted throwing up the spurious code

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11 minutes ago, andymc1973 said:

coil pack and plugs! a resistor had melted throwing up the spurious code

:) Like most things in life, the simple is often overlooked.

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