Hi!

I have a 1998 Fiat Bravo 1.4 SX which I bought recently. However, today, as I pulled out on a roundabout and put it into 2nd, it started jerking quite violently, and every time it jerked there was a popping sound coming from (i think!) under the bonnet. It then stopped, but did it again when I got up to 4th. There seems to be no real rhyme or reason to as or when it does it, but it seems to do it more as I go into 2nd. Managed to get it home but too scared to drive it again as theres just no power when it decides to do this. Not very mechanically minded unfoturnately! The car also vibrates a lot more at idle since it started doing this.

New to fiat and new to driving! Any ideas guys?

Much appreciated!

check your oil cap and see if there is any white gunk, and check your collant see if you have any oil in it.

if so may be you head gasket on the way out

did the injector light come on in the dash ?

No to both of those! And no injector light either!

musclemuse said:

No to both of those! And no injector light either!

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Hi, might be worth checking all your electrical connections under the bonnet ie- Battery, plug leads and take out your spark plugs and check those, what kind of service history has it got? That engine has just one injector so could be clogged and worth putting in some injector cleaner in the fuel tank and run it down the motorway see if that helps. Also worth checking for air and vacuum leaks on the hoses and pipes.

From your description it sounds like a missfire? Have you had any work done on the car recently and when where the spark plugs last changed?