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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Midlander....
PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 11:25 am 
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you fixed your 10mpg vectra yet?

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wannabeeahack wrote:
you fixed your 10mpg vectra yet?


No mate still runing like a bag of swingers, I disconnected the battery the other week and left it overnight because it started raining when I was going to re connect it, the next day when I re connected it the MPG was well up into the 40's, I had to disconnect the battery again for 2 minutes a few days later and the MPG went back down to 19MPG. :cry:

Something isn't right somewhere, I've had the ECU reset but it hasn't solved the problem.

A change is on the Horizon I think.

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get the thing fixed then!

get it into swad diesels asap

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hold on

is it SHOWING 15mpg, or have you checked it manually? (mileage/brim-brim)

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wannabeeahack wrote:
hold on

is it SHOWING 15mpg, or have you checked it manually? (mileage/brim-brim)


Brim to brim and mileage.

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Have you changed the MAS mass air flow sensor yet, That could be the problem
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MAF, EGR, cam/crank sensers

leaving the battery off overnight clears the ECU of faults and error codes

if it will run sometimes ok it cant be too serious.............he said

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Have you changed the MAS mass air flow sensor yet, That could be the problem


Yes that's been changed Skip still no joy.

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wannabeeahack wrote:
MAF, EGR, cam/crank sensers

leaving the battery off overnight clears the ECU of faults and error codes

if it will run sometimes ok it cant be too serious.............he said


Looks like crank sensors is the next step mate, can't see it being anything else TBH.

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Midlander wrote:
Looks like crank sensors is the next step mate.


it can detect certain edinburgh taxi drivers WTF!!!! :lol: :lol:

you can tell I'm not mechanically minded, can't you. eusasmiles.zip what's a crank sensor?

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Midlander wrote:
Looks like crank sensors is the next step mate.


it can detect certain edinburgh taxi drivers WTF!!!! :lol: :lol:

you can tell I'm not mechanically minded, can't you. eusasmiles.zip what's a crank sensor?


It provides data to the ecu on position of crankshaft so it knows when to inject fuel. Pretty simple and cheap part but can cause a hell of a load of problems.

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How old is it and how many miles,
It could be time to shoot it, and buy a 50 MPG Skoda
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skippy41 wrote:
How old is it and how many miles,
It could be time to shoot it, and buy a 50 MPG Skoda



cant see him wanting an estelle

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a code reader should tell you what wrong - almost

you can buy one from argos £30

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skippy41 wrote:
How old is it and how many miles,
It could be time to shoot it, and buy a 50 MPG Skoda


56 plate with 100,000 miles on the clock.

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