Engine knackered??

[GUILDY1]

My engine started judderin today while i was driving it, it seemed like there was no fuel getting too it and was loosing power when i tried to accelerate,

when i tried to start it again later on it started backfiring and making spittin noises then cut out, it kept doing that for about 15 mins then started working again but was still juddering

now it wont stay on for anymore than 2 seconds it keeps cutting out

anyone know what could be wrong with it or experienced the same problems??
thanks

[BobC]

Hi,

Has the fuel filter been changed? There is a long list of possible causes which relate to these...

1) Electrical
2) Fuel mixture
3) Compression

[toms_vtr]

sounds like the fuel filter to mee

[GUILDY1]

last service was about 15000 mile ago, fuel filter got changed then, could be doing with a service

[woopasize]

sounds like the same problems im having was fine through the summer and had only recently been serviced and mot'd.
A little bit of bad weather and cars playing up something kronik!

[GUILDY1]

anyone else know what it could be?

[GUILDY1]

yeah i was thinkin maybe the colds givin it some problems but it was just as cold yesterday and it was working fine

[VT_Cai]

my vts was kinda doing that, ended up putting it on the diagnostics and it turned out to be the map sensor, changed that and sorted it out been running better then ever, not sure where the map sensor is on a 1.1 though sorry

[Marky_C]

Same happened to me when my headgasket went

[GUILDY1]

i'm going to take it to the garage tommorow and get them to check it over,

there could be loads of thing wrong with just wondering if anyone else had came across the same problems :y:
cheers for the quick replies

[woopasize]

yeh i had mine checked on the diagnostics machine today and evrything was reading well but i still had the juddering, misfiring, spluttering etc so he told me to go up the scrappy and get a stepper motor as a first solutiong then go from there, these things are all a process of elimination

[GUILDY1]

hopefully its not that serious :(

[j_marshall]

i duno if this helps at all not the best with cars but was out my with my m8 in his VTR the other day and this sort of thing started happening we thought she had died just turnt out to be a dodgey Earth bit of sand paper cleaned it up and she was a goer again

[GUILDY1]

just changed the fuel filter an hour and it didnt do any difference
it was strugling to start and sounded like a stock car, managed to take it to the garage

they reckon its a chocked cat :n:
there gonna phone me later and let me know

[GUILDY1]

turns out it was only needing spark plugs :D
cars running perfectly now