Titch (a Cinq' Sporting 1.1 ) started losing power today on my way to work.

He idles more or less okay (a bit lumpy but stays at around 800 rpm) but when I accellerate, there's not much power but a bit of vibration (like one or more cylinders are out).

Last time I had a problem like this was on a 1242cc Punto. It turned out that one of the coils was knacked. I need the car running so I've bought a new coil without testing it any more than by pulling the HT lead off no4 cylinder (the engine then stalled)

Apart from a duff plug, or dodgy HT lead etc. which I may discover if the coil doesn't fix the problem, what else can I look at?

Ralf S.

see if you can get a compression test done

Pull the leads off one by one replacing as you go, until you find the one that doesn't stall the engine.

That will be the dead plug/lead.

If two don't make it stop, thats the dead coil.

Cheers

PD

Aye! New coil fixed it.


Ralf S.

Good

Cheers

PD