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Car is knocking,sputtering etc

  • 08-11-2014 8:49pm
    #1
    tommyspiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭


    Hi
    Just drove 1 mile and car just started sputtering/bad acceleration and flashing engine light

    The car is a 1.4 toyota Corolla with 107,000 miles, has a loud exhaust but now sounds like a subruas exhaust would sound

    I looked it up online and i thinks it's a misfire. Would a spark plug cause this? Hopefully ?
    Am I looking at big money to fix it, or any suggestions/opinions.

    I will not drive it as I know a flashing engine light is serious. ThanKs :(


Comments

  • #2
    chrisb1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭chrisb1


    Coil pack might have shat itself


  • #3
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    So long as it's not this!!!


  • #4
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Flashing EML is a misfire.

    Check your ignition leads first. Then your ignition coils/sparkplugs. Then you might want to make sure the engine's actually building compressions.


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Don't panic just yet.
    Take car to a mechanic to get fault codes read.


  • #6
    Row
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭Row


    The last few petrols i've seen acting like this had contaminated petrol...:eek:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057278358


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  • #7
    tommyspiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭tommyspiggy


    hope it's not due to petrol stretching . I am in west cork so I don't think I'm in the worst part of the country for bad petrol but who knows . If it is to do with streched petrol, how do people go about fixing their car ? Cheers


  • #8
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    tommyspiggy wrote: »
    hope it's not due to petrol stretching . I am in west cork so I don't think I'm in the worst part of the country for bad petrol but who knows . If it is to do with streched petrol, how do people go about fixing their car ? Cheers

    In simple terms, it seems to involve a new short engine or new pistons and rings, crank bearings, etc and a full clean of the valves and head.


  • #9
    generalmental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭generalmental


    I have a 00 1.4 vvti with 135000 on the clock and I noticed the same problem today. Sputtering, Kangaroo-ing and a general lack of power. I had a look tonight and I thought it might be oil burning but I have had the car a few months now and not noticed anything bad on the oil.
    I have been getting my petrol in the same garage every Thursday since the start of September. Interesting!!!!


  • #10
    tommyspiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭tommyspiggy


    Did you get it checked out yet? ^


  • #11
    generalmental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭generalmental


    tommyspiggy wrote: »
    Did you get it checked out yet? ^

    Only happened a few hours ago.


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  • #12
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Two of them in short order?

    Has Toyota inclused a 'new-car incentive mode' in the ECU?


  • #13
    tommyspiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭tommyspiggy


    generalmental wrote: »
    Only happened a few hours ago.

    Oh sorry didn't see that


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