I have now replaced coil, spark plugs, leads and cleaned the crank sensor. I also found a small lake in my spare wheel well and water has got into my inertia switch, don't know if this could cause a problem?

The misfire is not as violent as it was before but I've noticed my revs have started to become a bit erratic, when i lift off the throttle, the revs go up to about 2500 rpm and then drop to the point the car nearly stalls before going back up to about 1500.

I was looking at the cambelt last weekend and noticed the car was a tooth out of time so I have timed it correctly and it now idles better than it used to. I don't think it slipped a tooth though as the cambelt was on tight and there are no signs of damage on the belt and would have thought that the car would idle badly if any out of time valve smashing shenaningans had happened.

I am going to have a bit more of a root about at the weekend, the fuel filter and pump are new but there seems to be a small amount of damp around the fuel filter so I think it needs tightening up.

I have also tested the resistance on each injector and they all read 6ohms and my electrically minded friend has made me a diagnostic tester which I am also going to try (if it works and I can find the diagnostic socket)

If anyone else has anything that might be worth looking at or trying I would be eternally grateful as this is my only car and I've only had it three months and I'm starting to get a bit fed up with it.



set it on fire

ive changed basically everything in my bay and still not cured my missfire

good luck

Very tempting! Cheers mate, I have read about your plight, hope you get yours sorted. Seems like this is a bit of a common problem as there are a lot of threads over the internet. I did find one (for a 3dr) that said to test the coolant temperature sensor and check the wiring loom for the injectors, apparently that can get tight and become stressed when the engine moves under load, might be worth a look if you haven't already


Solder the multiplug connections most people say

That sounds like it is worth a go, cheers for the advice, take it other people have had a problem with that back connector then?


..How old is your battery?

Looks fairly new but I've only had the car about three months so don't know for certain, never had any trouble starting the car even if its been sat a couple of weeks. Some of the connectors to it look a bit scummy though so I am going to take them all of and clean them up at the weekend.