LisaK

Oh so the diagnostic flashes are completely irrelevant in this case? That's good to know it's hopefully nothing expensive then! I am sure the HT leads, dizzy and coil are OK - I've managed to fire it nearly every time by using the same procedure of removing the fuel pump fuse, turning the car over (which instantly, if a bit lumpy, fires up) and in turn burns the excess fuel in the cylinders without pumping more in and flooding it. I then plug the fuel pump fuse back in and the car idles OK but STINKS of excess fuel from the exhaust and drives like absolute sh*t, hardly any acceleration at all. If the plugs, leads and dizzy were not sparking well, the car still wouldn't fire up during that procedure I shouldn't think. Oooh, thanks :D but how do I "check" the earths?

Well it turns out I'm not as stupid as I first thought as the cylinders are in constant state of flooding - no amount of spark cleaning will make it fire up :( I had to result to removing the fuel pump fuse, turn the car over and then plug the fuse back in to avoid further flooding and actually get the engine to fire. I had a look at the blue temp sender again and it seems to be working fine, i.e. revs drop down really low when unplugged and back up to normal idle when plugged back in but I'll be picking a new one up this afternoon from GSF just in case. I managed to limp the car down to my mechanics yesterday - they checked all the fuel pressures and they are absolutely fine and they stuck a diagnostic on it but they aren't getting error codes up, just weird flashes which indicated to them that maybe something "foreign" was creating the fault. They asked if my car was chipped and it is, an SNS chip. Does anyone know if a faulty SNS chip makes the ecu want to constantly pump ridiculous amounts of fuel in??

Well, its all sorted hopefully! You know I said that fuel was getting in to the cylinder block? Well... it turns out that TOO much fuel was going in - all I did was move my car 10 yards to another space and I guess that was all it needed to flood it. A good clean up of the plugs and a few plunges of the throttle got the thing started and kept the revs up for about 30secs to burn the excess fuel. I feel a bit stupid but at least it was nothing serious (this time). Thanks for the suggestions, guys, they were appreciated :)

Thanks for the concern :) Right, theres definitely spark and theres definitely fuel getting into the cylinder block. I can hear the pump priming and it sounds like the car wants to fire up but it just wont. My mate suggested it could be something to do with the timing being totally out and wants to know the advances and retards of the distributor and what kind of dizzy it is, mech or spring-loaded (as I have no idea!)?

Ok, the car has spark (plugs were a bit black though) and there's definitely fuel getting through. What are the symptoms of a faulty ignition switch and what does it do exactly? Anything else I can try before I start pulling my hair out?

Good idea - was going to try something along those lines that last night but trying to work under torchlight I didn't trust me not to electrocute myself :lol: Any other suggestions so I can rule out as many possibilities as poss?

Thanks for the suggestions :) Unfortunately no AA cover or alike, though I know I should have owning a bloody Corrado! Yep, battery and starter seem fine. I forgot to check the relays whilst I was under the dash so I'll do that later. I was thinking it may be the coil but is it a case of having to buy a new one to know whether it's FUBARd or are there any signs on the part that it'll be dead? Same as for the hall sender? Yeah, I know I'm a novice when it comes to engines but I'm learning slowly :)

Right, I've noticed the car not running right since Friday morning - the oil temp would normally sit at around 108 whilst doing 75-80mph but on Friday, it shot up to 116 and even when I backed off to 60 the oil temp fluctuated between 114 and 116 (the water temp was still normal. This is definitely not normal for my G. On Saturday morning when I started the car, the revs shot up higher than normal, dipped down lower then normal and then sat at the usual cold start of around 1000rpm and did the same when I had to move my car on Saturday evening. I then didn't touch the G til Sunday night (around 9pm), I started the car but it wouldn't fire up. I tried a couple of times to turn it over but stopped as I didn't want to flood the engine. I checked the fuel lines and pressurised fuel spurted out, the HT leads and plugs are barely 9 months old and even if it was those, the car would attempt to fire up surely? I checked the dizzy cap and rotary arm and it was a wee bit corroded so I cleaned some of the corrosion off both arm and conductors and tried to fire up the car again to no avail :( I did notice a really tiny bit of oil leakage from plug no.2 - would that make the car not fire up at all? I've also checked the fuses and they seem all intact. I'm currently driving around in a Mk3 Supra TT and as lovely as it is to drive, I really need to find out what's wrong with my G. I've tried to fiddle with the basics to no avail. Any ideas what could be wrong or what I can try fixing before I have to trailer it to my mechanic? :(

Cheese is so very wrong unless its piss-weak like Philadelphia or Mozzarella. Ham is good though. I like ham. With FRESH doorstep bread, chunky slices of tomato and a good portion of branston pickle. Yum :grin:

Thought so... using predictive text as well? ;)

I saw two parked up next to each other down Southend seafront about a year ago :D

Only slow, boring work cars: '08 Renault Laguna 1500cc DCi '54 Honda Accord Estate 2.2 CDTi '53 Volvo S40 1900cc D '52 Toyota Avensis 1.8 16v and my friend's JDM MK3 Toyota Supra TT every now and then :)

was8v - can't fault him! Photos were in my inbox when expected, courier delivered when expected, bumper in condition as expected and he kept me up to date the whole time re: delivery :)

As the last two posts above have mentioned - it's a "nice" looking car but it's definitely NOT a Coupe, therefore VW shouldn't have used the name "Scirocco". I'll hold full judgement until I see it in the flesh and/or take one out for a test drive.

Minus 12 degrees C *brrrr* :shock:

I think the word you are looking for is "Agnostic/Agnosticism" :)

I salute thee!

And the pipes that were fine for my G60 that Stevemac owned in 2005 have just started to perish so time to get them changed. The smell of fuel is apparant in mine but only on idle, which I'm guessing is because the cam is pushing more fuel through making it run rich... best to change the pipes anyway though!

*hides her beautiful G away from serial killer eyes*

The equivalent of an Amish gentleman sitting on a cart steering his horse is known as a pikey round this way. Well done for keeping relatively calm but if I'd have been in the same situation, I would've told Mr Pikey where to go. I can't say I'm a fan of horses in the slightest (or pikeys); there are plenty of off-road country routes and horse-tracks for horses and riders so if they are on the road, I'll be as quiet and polite as I can be (in a car that sounds like a WW2 bomber) and if the rider gets scared, tough sh*t, they shouldn't be on the roads in the first place (imo).

Not a particularly interesting one but I got a "thumbs up" from an old boy who was working on a house down my road :)

Congrats on your new purchase :) Any pics?

:lol: I wish!

My G gets admiring looks and nods but no-one ever says anything to me. I don't know whether it's just because they haven't got anything to say, whether they're intimidated that I'm a female C owner or whether they think I don't know much about my own car *shrugs* :(

Bodywork wise, they are prone to rusting around the rear light clusters, underneath the rear windscreen, from the holes that are used to screw the rear numberplate in place and under the arch trims. The most common engine/electrical problem I've come across on the MK3 is a faulty fuel pump and/or ignition switch relay which causes the car to cut-out whenever it feels like it. Hope that helps a bit!