unusual problems.......
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:03 pm
right, its a pretty long one this, be quite helpful if anyone can help though.
cars been sitting for a pretty long time as i lost the key, so you really are looking at least 6 months, but the car hasn't done any miles since the last MoT, so as it has=d an MoT booked in for today, yesterday i put the recharged battery on and fired it up, bit lumpy, but drivable i suppose, random drivers window opening, then not going up, then you could hear it in the door trying to go down again while it was already down, lol, anyhow, today notice tyres were quite flat, so all pumped up and then noticed the dash instrument cluster, where all the info is, mileage, etc, was blank, hhhhmmm, great, anyhow, got to the MoT station, late, but they popped it in, top guys! anyhow, i was expecting a mega fail, but it passed!, few advisories mind, so, it was also booked in for an electrical diagnosis, it beeped as soon as you moved off, then random beeping, so turned up......
and they got me in an hour earlier than i was booked in for, good! came back with 39 faults!!!! oooooo-er.
so, roof fault? well in the diagnostics tool, it said "opening and closing procedure too long" WTF???? unbelievable really, so is it probably the motor then? even the chap seemed a bit surprised by that one, even said "roof fully closed" and "roof fully open" in the diag tool, other stuff were random open circuits, solenoids, but we didn't know how long the codes were there for, so deleted them, and see if any came back,
so as i went to go, again, as soon as i hit like 5 mph, the beeping started again, so he plugged it all back, tried various stuff to no effect, did throw up another random fault,
then i said was there anyway to turn off the audable beeping warnings? tried driving with no seatbelt on, but that was a different sound, bit deeper beeping, so we tried removing the dash clocks, and the beeping wasn't there when driving off, so at least we know where the beeping comes from, plugged them back in, and the dash instrument cluster info came back, all the mileage etc, so, "uh ha" we thought, it might pop up the warning message when it beeps as we drive off, but no, beeping was still there, but no message, so we had to leave it really as i had to drop it off elsewhere, but i noticed when i drove 0.2 miles it went off, then came back at random distances, lasting no specific time.
also what came up as a permanent fault was "cylinder 3 misfire" that got worse on my way to the last drop off which threw up the flashing engine management light which lead to a "check injection" warning on the dash info, this was the dash when it came back to life.....
so, a few problems there, and ideas chaps? would the miss-fire more than likely be coil pack? and would it descend into "check injection" if it was kept driving?
cars been sitting for a pretty long time as i lost the key, so you really are looking at least 6 months, but the car hasn't done any miles since the last MoT, so as it has=d an MoT booked in for today, yesterday i put the recharged battery on and fired it up, bit lumpy, but drivable i suppose, random drivers window opening, then not going up, then you could hear it in the door trying to go down again while it was already down, lol, anyhow, today notice tyres were quite flat, so all pumped up and then noticed the dash instrument cluster, where all the info is, mileage, etc, was blank, hhhhmmm, great, anyhow, got to the MoT station, late, but they popped it in, top guys! anyhow, i was expecting a mega fail, but it passed!, few advisories mind, so, it was also booked in for an electrical diagnosis, it beeped as soon as you moved off, then random beeping, so turned up......
and they got me in an hour earlier than i was booked in for, good! came back with 39 faults!!!! oooooo-er.
so, roof fault? well in the diagnostics tool, it said "opening and closing procedure too long" WTF???? unbelievable really, so is it probably the motor then? even the chap seemed a bit surprised by that one, even said "roof fully closed" and "roof fully open" in the diag tool, other stuff were random open circuits, solenoids, but we didn't know how long the codes were there for, so deleted them, and see if any came back,
so as i went to go, again, as soon as i hit like 5 mph, the beeping started again, so he plugged it all back, tried various stuff to no effect, did throw up another random fault,
then i said was there anyway to turn off the audable beeping warnings? tried driving with no seatbelt on, but that was a different sound, bit deeper beeping, so we tried removing the dash clocks, and the beeping wasn't there when driving off, so at least we know where the beeping comes from, plugged them back in, and the dash instrument cluster info came back, all the mileage etc, so, "uh ha" we thought, it might pop up the warning message when it beeps as we drive off, but no, beeping was still there, but no message, so we had to leave it really as i had to drop it off elsewhere, but i noticed when i drove 0.2 miles it went off, then came back at random distances, lasting no specific time.
also what came up as a permanent fault was "cylinder 3 misfire" that got worse on my way to the last drop off which threw up the flashing engine management light which lead to a "check injection" warning on the dash info, this was the dash when it came back to life.....
so, a few problems there, and ideas chaps? would the miss-fire more than likely be coil pack? and would it descend into "check injection" if it was kept driving?