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nottsgreent5
Monday 22nd August 2011, 18:19
hi all today my car suffering from eratic poor ideling and is very hard to start when engines hot was fine last night lol checked all the vac lines which are newish cam sensor was replaced not long ago , is there a hot start valve on these t5 engine any help would be great

Ed.
Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 08:29
Is the temperature gauge reading normally? Does it rise from a cold start and settle at 3 o'clock position once warmed up? It could be that your thermostat and sender may be faulty.

If the ecu thinks the engine is cold, it will overfuel heavily, sometimes to the point where it won't even start.

Ed

nottsgreent5
Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 13:05
Yes mate its gettin to temp ok spoke to the guy from sw he recons one of the injector banks in the ecu isnt working correctley and leting to much fuel thro one or two of the injectors changed back to standard ecu and alls fine again gona get another ecu and put the eprom in that