Technical Punto sluggish from cold

[kill_bill]

OK, just had a full service on my Mk2 ELX, thought it would cure this but hasn't!

Anyway, from first start, get to the junction at the end of my road and when I pull out it seems like there is nothing there, hardly any acceleration. This clears after a minute tops

Had it back to the garage and of course was fine (as always!)

My feeling is ignition leads or dizzy cap... anyone got any thoughts??

 

[Punto.Power]

Maybe fuel not getting through as it should maybe dirty injecters..?

 

[DanGil]

Its normal, any newish car will try and stop you revving it from cold

 

[kill_bill]

Its normal, any newish car will try and stop you revving it from cold

You sure?? Comes close to cutting out, not very safe when pulling into traffic!

 

[Punto.Power]

Try a bottle of injection cleaner its cheap enough anyways in your tank when you have quater of fuel left take it for a run see if that helps i dunno about newish car normal for not revving when cold never heard that one before but for at least 10mins wouldint rev it over 3000rpm..

 

[vtec]

Have you thought about headgasket? usually when its on its way out you will have simptoms as you described, the reason for this is when its lying over night the coolant in the engine will leak into the cylinders throught the dodgey gasket and when you start the car the next morning there is water in the the engine so the fuel cant ignite properly, but after a whil the water will be burnt out with the exhaust gases and the car will seem fine.,.

look in the oil filler cap and if you see any mayonaisey lookin stuff youll know you have a problem, also look in the coolant for that rainbow oily colour.,.,

 

[kill_bill]

Have you thought about headgasket? usually when its on its way out you will have simptoms as you described, the reason for this is when its lying over night the coolant in the engine will leak into the cylinders throught the dodgey gasket and when you start the car the next morning there is water in the the engine so the fuel cant ignite properly, but after a whil the water will be burnt out with the exhaust gases and the car will seem fine.,.

look in the oil filler cap and if you see any mayonaisey lookin stuff youll know you have a problem, also look in the coolant for that rainbow oily colour.,.,

None of those symptoms m8 (thankfully)!. Could perhaps be injectors because the car was run without much petrol in for a while (not by me) and could have dragged up crap from the tank perhaps?

 

[faster4_tec]

until car is warm there will be a lot of friction in the engine, i.e when normally you could get away with pulling away in 2nd, you would need to carefully slip down to 1st (and gearbox will be extra notchy cos its cold).

you don't want to be pulling out of junctions fast when its cold ideally.
if its not pulling smoothly enough/warmed up enough when you are trying to pull onto an A road moving at 60mph, then wait longer for it to warm up before attempting such a thing.

BTW all punto's have electronic ignition, no dizzies here

 

[Ransoman]

Sounds to me like the spark plug gaps are wrong. What is the idle like?