Technical 2013 1.2 Panda

[Lee Cattle]

Hi, hoping for a little bit of advice. I recently bought a 1.2 panda to use when I am over in Spain, it's a LHD Spanish plated car. Car has about 70k on it and is in good condition, unfortunately though it has an intermittent fault. Basically what happens is that if I go above 110KMPH the car sometimes seems to stutter, the engine warning comes on and the car runs very lumpy and with no power, if i turn the ignition off and back on the fault.goes and the car runs fine. It's done it around 10 times now and only when above 110KMPH, I have been up steep hills with high revs and it's fine. I'm going over in a few weeks and taking a OBD reader over but just wondered if anyone has had anything similar.

 

[jackwhoo]

When fault happens does the engine light flash? Or stay on steady?

 

[Lee Cattle]

Hi, it stays on, the seems like it's only running on 3 cylinders and sounds rough. I usually pull over and turn the ignition off and on again, the light goes off and the car runs fine again.

 

[Lee Cattle]

I took it up a mountain the other week, no issues at all going up some very steep hills, got back on motorway and went above 110KM on a downward stretch and it faulted.

 

[rmjbn1]

Any history of a recent timing belt?
This symptom crops up quite often on 500s (same engine) if the belt change isn't carried our correctly

 

[Lee Cattle]

Any history of a recent timing belt?
This symptom crops up quite often on 500s (same engine) if the belt change isn't carried our correctly

Hi. I'm not sure to be honest as their is no history with the car. If i had the car back home it would be down to my mechanic but as it's in Spain I don't really have any experience or local knowledge of where to take it. My plan was to take over the fault reader and also a set of coils and plugs and take it from there.

 

[varesecrazy]

Hi. I'm not sure to be honest as their is no history with the car. If i had the car back home it would be down to my mechanic but as it's in Spain I don't really have any experience or local knowledge of where to take it. My plan was to take over the fault reader and also a set of coils and plugs and take it from there.

If it climbs hills, it's obviously running ok on 4 cylinders

The Timing belt swap upsets the timing sensors, ok at low revs, on a dual carriageway is where the revs climb enough to flag an issue

 

[Lee Cattle]

If it climbs hills, it's obviously running ok on 4 cylinders

The Timing belt swap upsets the timing sensors, ok at low revs, on a dual carriageway is where the revs climb enough to flag an issue

Thanks for the response, I'm going over in a few weeks so will see if I can narrow it down any further. Hopefully the fault code reader will assist in that.