Good evening,
After several months of lovely, sweet-running fun in my '99 Sei, I'm experiencing a problem that causes the 'Injection System Failure' light to come on.
When this happens, the car really struggles for power, seemingly misfiring and revving sluggishly under the heavy throttle needed to maintain momentum to an apparent limit of 4k or so. It wouldn't exceed 25mph and a decent hill would defeat it.
It varies in severity, but the two worst instances were after a short run in the vehicle, a short break and then starting the engine again. These times the car wouldn't catch without some throttle and, once idling, gave a very uneven thobby note with the car noticeably vibrating (yes, even for a Seicento
) at the usual 1k on the tacho. The engine response wasn't its usual crisp and feisty self, feeling weak and leaden.
This happened once, followed by a milder (half as bad as earlier), momentary dip in power on the way to the garage that lasted perhaps 15 seconds. The garage thought an ignition lead being loose could be the culprit and handed it back to me without charge. A few days on I had another case of the more serious problens from start-up but, on the way home (after maybe two minutes of driving), I felt a firm kick in the back as full power returned underneath my heavy right foot. It made it to the garage the next day without incident, the mechanics tell me they can't see the fault and don't want to start guesswork, so I'm hoping the knowledgable benevolence of yourselves can give me an idea of what's to be done.
Thanks in advance for any help, it's truly appreciated.
After several months of lovely, sweet-running fun in my '99 Sei, I'm experiencing a problem that causes the 'Injection System Failure' light to come on.
When this happens, the car really struggles for power, seemingly misfiring and revving sluggishly under the heavy throttle needed to maintain momentum to an apparent limit of 4k or so. It wouldn't exceed 25mph and a decent hill would defeat it.
It varies in severity, but the two worst instances were after a short run in the vehicle, a short break and then starting the engine again. These times the car wouldn't catch without some throttle and, once idling, gave a very uneven thobby note with the car noticeably vibrating (yes, even for a Seicento
This happened once, followed by a milder (half as bad as earlier), momentary dip in power on the way to the garage that lasted perhaps 15 seconds. The garage thought an ignition lead being loose could be the culprit and handed it back to me without charge. A few days on I had another case of the more serious problens from start-up but, on the way home (after maybe two minutes of driving), I felt a firm kick in the back as full power returned underneath my heavy right foot. It made it to the garage the next day without incident, the mechanics tell me they can't see the fault and don't want to start guesswork, so I'm hoping the knowledgable benevolence of yourselves can give me an idea of what's to be done.
Thanks in advance for any help, it's truly appreciated.