The car starts, and drives, but..... Lots of little problems. Most of which are down to one or many of the little sensors, switches and gizmos dotted all over the engine bay.
The problem is, how do you link a sensor with a problem, i.e something says it should activate when under load. But it activates at idle! What tells the ecu the engine is under load?
Is there a table for common faults and their associated sensors? Grouping a funcion of the ecu with a sensor/group of sensors.
It would make fault finding a lot simpler.
The other thing of course is to get a fault code reader, I don't think I want to know what has failed though!! Could be more what hasn't failed[:)]
Fault Diagnosis ??
Moderator: RichardW
If anything had failed catastrophically, you'd probably get the ECU light coming on.
A fault code reader probably won't be too much use, unless you get a good one and use it as in this thread: http://www.andyspares.com/discussionfor ... IC_ID=4947
Or else get a friendly garage to do it and check the engine from cold. Anything else would be guesswork, and could end up very expensive.
A fault code reader probably won't be too much use, unless you get a good one and use it as in this thread: http://www.andyspares.com/discussionfor ... IC_ID=4947
Or else get a friendly garage to do it and check the engine from cold. Anything else would be guesswork, and could end up very expensive.