Increasingly worrying and dangerous electrical fault
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 2:39 pm
Hi,
I have a recurring fault that is getting more frequent and as a result more dangerous. I think it's electrical and may have something to do with the central locking system.
As I'm driving along the engine starts to misfire and lose power.
The engine management light and the central locking lights flicker on and of like crazy.
When I take my foot off the accelerator the car idles with no issues but if I apply the accelerator the misfiring and light show starts again until I grind to a halt.
The car will start again after a few minutes. The longer I leave it the longer it seems to be until the next episode but it usually happens 4 or 5 times in a row over 5 or so miles. Eventually the fault clears and will not occur during that journey.
My mechanic has used his diagnostic tester and found no fault and he hasn't been able to get the fault to occur (sods law) so does not know what to do.
It only usually happened on long motorway trips which are rare for me so wasn't really an issue but recently it is almost daily and it's only a matter of time before it happen in a dangerous situation. My mechanic says we have to wait for it to break before we can fix it but that sound s like bullshit to me.
Has anyone come across this fault before?
I have uploaded a video of the fault in progress on YouTube.
Any and all advice much appreciated.
Regards
Tom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2d1UN ... e=youtu.be
I have a recurring fault that is getting more frequent and as a result more dangerous. I think it's electrical and may have something to do with the central locking system.
As I'm driving along the engine starts to misfire and lose power.
The engine management light and the central locking lights flicker on and of like crazy.
When I take my foot off the accelerator the car idles with no issues but if I apply the accelerator the misfiring and light show starts again until I grind to a halt.
The car will start again after a few minutes. The longer I leave it the longer it seems to be until the next episode but it usually happens 4 or 5 times in a row over 5 or so miles. Eventually the fault clears and will not occur during that journey.
My mechanic has used his diagnostic tester and found no fault and he hasn't been able to get the fault to occur (sods law) so does not know what to do.
It only usually happened on long motorway trips which are rare for me so wasn't really an issue but recently it is almost daily and it's only a matter of time before it happen in a dangerous situation. My mechanic says we have to wait for it to break before we can fix it but that sound s like bullshit to me.
Has anyone come across this fault before?
I have uploaded a video of the fault in progress on YouTube.
Any and all advice much appreciated.
Regards
Tom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2d1UN ... e=youtu.be