doing my head in Help please

[trisha1963]

Hi Newbie here, Trisha is the name,

Ok right down to business, I have a Fiat Stilo 3 door 02 reg 1.6 Active, Nice car however, I have a problem Running on 3 cylinders, Yep you probably fed up of this one , I have had it checked and coil pack 4 was down, so nice new coil pack installed and eek no change, It appears not to be getting power up to the coil pack , I am a PC technician so was able to do a check on multi meter,

I read somewhere that if a coil pack fails this can cause the same channel on the ECU to fail also.

i do not know much of cars but well money is tight with me as well and I would rather try and fix it my self if it is possible, as the cost of even just looking at it is way to much .

Is anybody out there came across thiss issue before and can anybody help me out here

Cheers

 

[fingers99]

Best ask in the Stilo section.

 

[varesecrazy]

Hi Newbie here, Trisha is the name,

Ok right down to business, I have a Fiat Stilo 3 door 02 reg 1.6 Active, Nice car however, I have a problem Running on 3 cylinders, Yep you probably fed up of this one , I have had it checked and coil pack 4 was down, so nice new coil pack installed and eek no change, It appears not to be getting power up to the coil pack , I am a PC technician so was able to do a check on multi meter,

I read somewhere that if a coil pack fails this can cause the same channel on the ECU to fail also.

i do not know much of cars but well money is tight with me as well and I would rather try and fix it my self if it is possible, as the cost of even just looking at it is way to much .

Is anybody out there came across this issue before and can anybody help me out here

Cheers

hi, and welcome to the forum,

is the coil pack def. US?,
it may be the supply fault that's stopping it from doing it's thing,

YES - spikes can bugger the ECU , however,
first - I would have a look on the Stilo section,
then do a bit of tracing + checking of the wiring back to the ECU,

have you had any error lights, messages = had the CODES read..??

good luck,
Charlie