fourteenhundred
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First off let me say hi, looks a great forum & hopefully I may be able to contribute as well as find help here.
OK my new baby is a '95 M-plate 1.4ie s, which I paid £200 for the pleasure of owning just a coupla days back from a salvage yard since it seems some little scrote or scrotes tried (unsuccessfully! hahaha) to steal her. They got as far as bending the passenger front door & breaking the steering lock (resulting for some reason in the horn buttons shorting when the wheel is turned, but thats another story for another day)
Anyway the car is really rather nice, well cared for & low (77,000) mileage so I'm happy
The only problem right now is one of rough tickover & hesitation on blipping the throttle, also she's rather down on power & has a nasty flat spot if you floor it (which you currently have to to accelerate in line with the rest of the traffic). This occurs hot or cold, although the first maybe 20 seconds after a cold start the idle is not bad...
Firstly I thought this was due to the air filter being AWOL but I've remedied that (and with EFI believe really it should correct for that anyway) and still she splutters hesitates and ticks over badly. I've got my suspicions on the CTS & lambda sensor at the moment but if anyone knows anything else that could cause these symptoms I'd appreciate a little guidance. Also if you could supply values to test the CTS and lambda that would be brilliant (looked at CTS warm yesterday and iirc it was reading 318k and rising as it cooled, but without values to work from that means nothing except it works to a certain degree)
Many thanks for any help, Dan.
OK my new baby is a '95 M-plate 1.4ie s, which I paid £200 for the pleasure of owning just a coupla days back from a salvage yard since it seems some little scrote or scrotes tried (unsuccessfully! hahaha) to steal her. They got as far as bending the passenger front door & breaking the steering lock (resulting for some reason in the horn buttons shorting when the wheel is turned, but thats another story for another day)
Anyway the car is really rather nice, well cared for & low (77,000) mileage so I'm happy
The only problem right now is one of rough tickover & hesitation on blipping the throttle, also she's rather down on power & has a nasty flat spot if you floor it (which you currently have to to accelerate in line with the rest of the traffic). This occurs hot or cold, although the first maybe 20 seconds after a cold start the idle is not bad...
Firstly I thought this was due to the air filter being AWOL but I've remedied that (and with EFI believe really it should correct for that anyway) and still she splutters hesitates and ticks over badly. I've got my suspicions on the CTS & lambda sensor at the moment but if anyone knows anything else that could cause these symptoms I'd appreciate a little guidance. Also if you could supply values to test the CTS and lambda that would be brilliant (looked at CTS warm yesterday and iirc it was reading 318k and rising as it cooled, but without values to work from that means nothing except it works to a certain degree)
Many thanks for any help, Dan.