Leon1davies
Hockenheim
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- 4 Oct 2015
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Had a great day at Beaulieu last weekend (apart from the hay fever) but noticed the car started running a little rough just as I was arriving home...car also almost stalled pulling out of a junction as I seemed to lose all power.
Car was running fine after this until Thursday. I was parked facing up a hill whilst it was raining for around 3 hours...got in the car at lunchtime, drove about 6 miles and I was parking up I got the CEL light and the engine started running really rough.
Read the codes and had multiple misfires on cylinders 2, 3 and 4.
Had this issue about 2 years ago in very similar circumstances, left it to 'dry' out and it was fine...changed the plugs and pack shortly after that. This time that method didn't work and as I started the car up later that evening it sounded like a big bag of spanners being shaken around, so i quickly shut it down and towed the car home.
The packs and plugs were changed at 96K miles in March 201, i'm now at 107k miles so I wouldn't have thought the plugs/packs were an issue.
I pulled them out from cylinders 2 and 3 and they looked fine.
After putting the car back together It started up but the engine appeared to be shaking and running rough still...more on bank 1 than 2. I then started getting think white smoke coming out of the right exhaust pipe with a slight coolant scent...definitely a problem on bank 1.
Came outside this morning and noticed a little drip on the floor which I thought was the water pump (felt a tad annoyed if it was as I changed that a couple of weeks ago)...got under to have a look and noticed the coolant was coming out of the exhaust flange
:frustrated: :frustrated: :frustrated:
Car was running fine after this until Thursday. I was parked facing up a hill whilst it was raining for around 3 hours...got in the car at lunchtime, drove about 6 miles and I was parking up I got the CEL light and the engine started running really rough.
Read the codes and had multiple misfires on cylinders 2, 3 and 4.
Had this issue about 2 years ago in very similar circumstances, left it to 'dry' out and it was fine...changed the plugs and pack shortly after that. This time that method didn't work and as I started the car up later that evening it sounded like a big bag of spanners being shaken around, so i quickly shut it down and towed the car home.
The packs and plugs were changed at 96K miles in March 201, i'm now at 107k miles so I wouldn't have thought the plugs/packs were an issue.
I pulled them out from cylinders 2 and 3 and they looked fine.
After putting the car back together It started up but the engine appeared to be shaking and running rough still...more on bank 1 than 2. I then started getting think white smoke coming out of the right exhaust pipe with a slight coolant scent...definitely a problem on bank 1.
Came outside this morning and noticed a little drip on the floor which I thought was the water pump (felt a tad annoyed if it was as I changed that a couple of weeks ago)...got under to have a look and noticed the coolant was coming out of the exhaust flange
:frustrated: :frustrated: :frustrated: