The government , highways agency, TV, radio, super markets.......
I know dealers dont give a s*** but do you think home servicing devalues cars by not having a stamped service book...just a thought.
Near me you can hire a four post ramp,tools and overalls for 10 pound hour..
Hi.
When I dropped the missus off at an old lady she cleans for this morning I managed to squeeze in £13 of petrol, doing a quick calculation I'm still getting 45mpg so not hugely out. What I did notice very quickly was another improvement, the hesitation is still just about noticeable but the jerking and the feeling like a slight miss appear to have gone. The only other thing is the second last time I filled up the filling station was out of 95 and I had no option so used 98 which I'm sure the last time I used it made the car run not so well. I'm off the Newcastle next week so by the return it'll only have 95 in the tank. Surely all the issues were not down to fuel..... makes me feel like an idiot
It's perfectly possible for a duff batch(es) of fuel could cause bad running, but I'd be surprised if good 98/99 makes it run like that. I always run cars on Shell-99 or BP Ultimate and have never had a problem. The only time I felt some increased rough running with a fuel was trying Aral-102 in Germany in a Renault Spider, as it clearly wasn't going BANG at quite the same point as my normal 99.
I'd say way more likely to have been duff fuel from one station or the other.
Yes I tend to agree.
What gets me though is the errors and that the upstream Lambda probe initially was reporting a heater fault then the live data being wrong. Cleaning the sensor took away the heater issue and the live data improved greatly, this is why I'm a more than a bit confused. is it co-incidence or the effects of poor or contaminated fuel??
It was Tesco . I have feeling it was bit earlier than 2009 but it's just a feeling.Poor fuel can certainly trash Lambda sensors. Remember back in 2009/10 when Tesco and/or Sainsburys went through a pile of bad fuel that left deposits and coatings on one particular type of O2 sensor and rendered them pretty much inoperative. Engine Lights on, bad running and in some cases, no running at all. A lot of the cars affected were French, as they all used a similar type of susceptible component. Cost the supermarkets a lot and the fix was simply to replace all the lambdas.....
If air filter has foam over normal paper filter I think the foam is intended to trap "larger" particles and the paper "finer" particles.