Hi,
I have a problem with my Fiat Uno. It is old (1989) but has ran fine until a few weeks ago. I have taken it to garage for repair but they didn't fix it. They did a few other repairs which they felt caused the problem that I had to pay for but it still runs bad.
The problem happened over night. I had parked it outside when I got home. During the night it was cold, some -10 degrees and still cold in the morning. In the morning I had to run the start engine until the battery was almost flat and it only started (like first starting on one cylinder - but my opinion was that it ignited evenly on all) when I put the gas pedal to the bottom, and I had to keep the start engine running although the motor ignited.
Then after starting, it stopped, if I didn't give a lot of gas. Then when driving it has no power. I cannot use the 5th gear. Top speed is about 90 and it only rans when I keep a high rpm. And even then it has little power (at low rpm almost no power at all). The strange thing to me is that it seems to run on all cylinders evenly but it has no power. When reaching full speed you can still give more gas (with the pedal) but without any power or speed increase - rather the opposite.
At the repair shop they said that it gets enough gas and the mixture is ok, but it has no sucking power. The valves were adjusted.
Then one thing more. when stopping the engine you always (with a couple of seconds delay) hear a bang!
Now, my theory is that there has came water into the (ignition) ditributor which when freezing has moved something which makes the ignition late (on all cylinders)?? Does this seem reasonable? I just cannot find a place to adjust this?
Can somebody please tell me where the fault is and what to do, because I don't want to take it for repair without result once again.
Thanks!
PS. Sorry if I haven't got all the terms right. English is not my mother tounge...
I have a problem with my Fiat Uno. It is old (1989) but has ran fine until a few weeks ago. I have taken it to garage for repair but they didn't fix it. They did a few other repairs which they felt caused the problem that I had to pay for but it still runs bad.
The problem happened over night. I had parked it outside when I got home. During the night it was cold, some -10 degrees and still cold in the morning. In the morning I had to run the start engine until the battery was almost flat and it only started (like first starting on one cylinder - but my opinion was that it ignited evenly on all) when I put the gas pedal to the bottom, and I had to keep the start engine running although the motor ignited.
Then after starting, it stopped, if I didn't give a lot of gas. Then when driving it has no power. I cannot use the 5th gear. Top speed is about 90 and it only rans when I keep a high rpm. And even then it has little power (at low rpm almost no power at all). The strange thing to me is that it seems to run on all cylinders evenly but it has no power. When reaching full speed you can still give more gas (with the pedal) but without any power or speed increase - rather the opposite.
At the repair shop they said that it gets enough gas and the mixture is ok, but it has no sucking power. The valves were adjusted.
Then one thing more. when stopping the engine you always (with a couple of seconds delay) hear a bang!
Now, my theory is that there has came water into the (ignition) ditributor which when freezing has moved something which makes the ignition late (on all cylinders)?? Does this seem reasonable? I just cannot find a place to adjust this?
Can somebody please tell me where the fault is and what to do, because I don't want to take it for repair without result once again.
Thanks!
PS. Sorry if I haven't got all the terms right. English is not my mother tounge...