I was wondering if you had any advice, or heard of a similar problem.

My timing belt snapped 2 weeks ago. This bent 8 of the 16 valves, and I got a good price off a mate, to fix it.

Since the repair the engine is running fine but the auto gear box is making the car drive like a complete F£*^ing Dog.

When cold there is very little power accelerating from a standing stop.
The box drops down at unexpected times.

The guy that fixed the engine seems to think that the electronics that control gear change may have went into a safe mode when the belt snaped, and he suggests taking it to an auto electrics specialist, or fiat, to see if this is the case and have it re-set.

Any ideas if this is the case?? i.e. safe mode when something major happens?

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Cheers, Deka

Are you sure the engine is running fine? Idling and revving it out of gear are not good indicators of it being fine.

Any key pointers I should be looking out for?

I re set the engine by removing one of the terminals too the battery, just like it tells you on the web site and this improved things slightly.

Help!!

Re: Any key pointers I should be looking out for?

When my belt went it took 2 ignition coils with it.

This took about a week to find the problem after the engine was put back together, because I was thinking it was a problem with the engine internals (which wasnt the case).

Re: Any key pointers I should be looking out for?

Get a compression test done and check the cam alignment, its possible the camshafts are not lined up.

Re: Any key pointers I should be looking out for?

wot tom said get the ignition coil checked too mine went wrong when my engine blew



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