Evening all,

This may have been covered, but I haven't managed to find anything covering all the bases my car seems to exhibit...

Ok, when I start it from cold, it settles down fine, then seems a little like its dropping a cylinder. The engine rocks a bit too, and I can feel it through the steering wheel.

Seems much better when idling when warm.

When decelerating from 3k down in almost any gear it seems like its dropping a cylinder again; it shaked foward and backwards...

Engine is totally stock, just ticked over 100k, just had a service with oil and air filters, ngk iridiumzzz spark plugs and millers fully synth 10w 40 oil.

Please bear with me, I'm very new with petrol engines, even though I've lusted after a '6 since I first began to live for the 306 4years ago


Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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'97 Black Dturbo 110,000miles: SOLD
'99 Ph3 Diablo Gti6 108k RIP
'93 106 1.5n/a d: daily hack YAAAAAWN
'00 Ph3 Astor GTi6 117k

I had thought this, luckily I live less than a mile form Lynx, and have already been in contact with Rich W. He confirmed what you said; they usually just go, rather than deteriorating over time.

I think I'll be getting the faults read over the weekend anyway.

I was thinking ICV, Coil pack or MAF sensor. Cant think what else it could be besides possibly the TPS..

Any thoughts/opinions befor ei fork out for a diagnostics test this weekend would be much appreciated!!!

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'97 Black Dturbo 110,000miles: SOLD
'99 Ph3 Diablo Gti6 108k RIP
'93 106 1.5n/a d: daily hack YAAAAAWN
'00 Ph3 Astor GTi6 117k

Define Juicy? I get around 28-30 mpg on the way to work, but I feel this is deserved.... :

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'97 Black Dturbo 110,000miles: SOLD
'99 Ph3 Diablo Gti6 108k RIP
'93 106 1.5n/a d: daily hack YAAAAAWN
'00 Ph3 Astor GTi6 117k

Nah, its no way near that bad, or I'd have had to sell it before finding out the problem!! lol


On a separate note, I went to uni down in Falmouth (camborne school of mines if you know it?!) So jealous, wish i was back there now. Just such a great pace of life, and so good to be by the sea

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'97 Black Dturbo 110,000miles: SOLD
'99 Ph3 Diablo Gti6 108k RIP
'93 106 1.5n/a d: daily hack YAAAAAWN
'00 Ph3 Astor GTi6 117k

When you had the service are you sure oil was put back in

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cherry p1.....SOLD (regreting this)
blaze p2.....why did i buy this SOLD
Black p3

Right Update on this:

I got it on the diagnostics reader at Lynx over the weekend, the lambda sensor is fubard, so its defualting to a generic fuelling setting on the ecu and thus deliberately overfuelling a bit to prevent it running lean and destroying the engine.

Would it running a bit rich becasue the lambda is gone present the symptoms I had described? Or should I be looking at the coil packs too...

Also, will i damage the engine if i drive it as it is... pretty nub-ish question I know, but I'm new to these engines...

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'97 Black Dturbo 110,000miles: SOLD
'99 Ph3 Diablo Gti6 108k RIP
'93 106 1.5n/a d: daily hack YAAAAAWN
'00 Ph3 Astor GTi6 117k