Apologies in advance for the long post....
I bought an X plate Speedgear on eBay. The description was pretty good, albeit brief:
"This car is for spares as it has an ECU fault. Only runs for 2 minutes so it won't drive away"
It started fine and drove onto my trailer and it started fine to drive off the trailer when I got it home.
I have some experience of Italian cars so I thought I'd assess it before deciding whether or not to break it.
Looked through the paperwork, it's done a genuine 57,000 miles, has two keys and a full service history. Plus it's MOT'd until December this year. On the basis that it made it to the MOT station and ran for long enough to pass the emissions test, I concluded the fault must be fairly recent.
Went to move it so my Mrs could go out and it wouldn't start. The CODE light stayed on.
I removed both battery terminals overnight and it started first time this morning and ran for a minute, then cut out and won't restart. On the first two attempts the CODE light was off but on the third attempt it was on.
Has anyone had a similar problem and if so, what was the cause?
Next job is to see if I can get my code reader to talk to it!
I bought an X plate Speedgear on eBay. The description was pretty good, albeit brief:
"This car is for spares as it has an ECU fault. Only runs for 2 minutes so it won't drive away"
It started fine and drove onto my trailer and it started fine to drive off the trailer when I got it home.
I have some experience of Italian cars so I thought I'd assess it before deciding whether or not to break it.
Looked through the paperwork, it's done a genuine 57,000 miles, has two keys and a full service history. Plus it's MOT'd until December this year. On the basis that it made it to the MOT station and ran for long enough to pass the emissions test, I concluded the fault must be fairly recent.
Went to move it so my Mrs could go out and it wouldn't start. The CODE light stayed on.
I removed both battery terminals overnight and it started first time this morning and ran for a minute, then cut out and won't restart. On the first two attempts the CODE light was off but on the third attempt it was on.
Has anyone had a similar problem and if so, what was the cause?
Next job is to see if I can get my code reader to talk to it!