aup me howds,anyone got any idea whats causing this problem?

my saff has had its head kicked in every weekend recently with no probs,today i came to it,it wound over but wouldnt start.

there was no noise from fuel pump,wound it over a couple more times and it still wouldnt go,it had only been parked up for 5mins,but me mate said if the fuel pump was pressured it might not make its whirring sound anyway because it was 'ready to go'

anyway fucked about with the little plugs on top of the coil,it fired but stalled on me and came to life again all the way home,did it about 4times.

anyone any ideas? dodgy fuel pump or dodgy plugs on coil?

anyone know what those plugs on the coil do anyway?

 

Ayup me howd,not a clue but give it a good bumming.

 

Check the fuel pump wires corrode, if you cant hear the pump motor give it a tap with a hammer with the ignition on and see if it primes.
I think the wires you are on about are the feeds to the coil are they clean. ? check the feed woth a test light, but go for the pump first.

 

Coil could be on way out or its the wiring on the plugs, mine actually cut out today and it was the wires on the coil.

 

Is yours a 2wd saff?

 

Thats well funny lol.

 

i had same last weekend it was a dodgy joint on coil every time i moved one of the connectors on top it would cut out or not start just turn over , i thought fuel pump at first too . been pricin up a group a coil cos it has spluttered a couple of times at random when drivin too and i think it was that now i initially thought it was fuel tbh .

cheers
gaz

 

If the car has already been brought up to temp, then generally they don't prime, this has nothing at all to do with the pressure already in the fuel rail/line, as there is no pressure sensor the ecu can't know what pressure there is, it is a time/temperature based decision whether to prime or not, and each car can be very different.
Sounds more like a loose connection, just do the wiggle test with the engine running, better to sort now than pray when in the outside lane of the M25 when you remember what you forgot to look at!!
tabetha

 

Have a look at the wires going to the fazz as iv nown them to brke down and have the same fult as you have

 

took it out on the wife last night,well and truely kosmanned

yeah dude the wires are clean,but it had two new coils not so long back so im wondering if we disturbed summat

can you get these rewired then? mine are all taped up with other wires,its alreday had two new coils

yep glennyboy,its not no girls car

sounds like mine,it did splutter a couple of times yesterday but i thought nowt of it

my fuel pump wiring got checked last year and was deemed to be ok,we wiggled it and rocked the pump and all sorts and it wouldnt go,its only when we wiggled the wires on the coil that it went,whats getting me is that it hasnt played up for weeks,then just does it out the blue yesterday

you mean phase sensor dude? the one in dizzy? it had new dizzy plugs and leads not so long ago

 

[quote=kosman;4972322]took it out on the wife last night,well and truely kosmanned /quote]

Good on ya me howd.

 

to fuck me howd

 

give the saff to me and buy an m3 problem solved

 

your not that well in yet love

 

just torch the fucker

 

had same problem on my saph last year and unwrapped the wiring loom going to coil and found green wire had been cut and rejoined by twisting together, crimped it and jobs a goodun kosman!!

 

Have you covered the basics, I.E is there a spark at the king lead? The connectors you mention are the coil connections the black one being switched live hence why it is black, and the green one is ground this is switched by ECU.

As said the pump will not always prime.

Martin

 

ill check these things at weekend and report back