Hi all, been following the forum for a couple of months now since we got our wife a Bravo and not had a problem until now-yesterday the engine management light started to flash and the car started missing like it was on three cylinders-struggling for cash like the rest of us so tried a diagnosis this morning-when it's running and i take a plug lead off there's a noticable drop in engine note so i assume all four pots are contributing, the engine just won't rev up but if you do it really gradually you can get the revs to rise but not that smoothly-the engine management light flashes while this is happening and it seems to be coughing and spluttering and backfiring through the exhaust--our car is a 2001 Y reg bravo with the 1.2 16 valve, there's no overheating or stuff--seem to vaguely remember this on a rover i had and it was the crankshaft sensor(i think)--i'm starting to panic now-can anyone help with a diagnosis or tell me where the crankshaft sensor is so i can see it's not come unplugged-thanks for your help

anyone please?

mine and my auntys 1.6's are doing this. iv tried plugs, leads and lambda so im going for coilpack next if that fails ill go for a diagnostic check.

well by a stroke of luck i got a AA man to put it on his diagnostic laptop and it came up with the error codes multiple misfires on cylinder 1 2 and 4-he diagnosed a coilpack so i'll try that tomorrow!

ShaunCo said:

mine and my auntys 1.6's are doing this. iv tried plugs, leads and lambda so im going for coilpack next if that fails ill go for a diagnostic check.

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Think you will find on the 1.6 that its most likely an injector failure. Do a search as there should be loads of posts on this.

well i didn't get a lot of help on here thank you very much to all but i will post up the outcome just in case it helps others!
Multi cylinder misfire on my 1.2-16 valve bravo turned out to be a faulty coil pack but this was caused by a broken plug cap leaking to earth-all done now!