Doingitsideways
Thursday 28th November 2013, 23:54
Hi all,
I don't usually poke my head in this section very often, probably because the S80 usually just soldiers on while the rest of the fleet require regular beatings with a hammer and lots of swearing!
To the point - tonight, the S80 started fine, on the button as usual, but then pretty much immediately started to idle very lumpily, like it was maybe down a cylinder or two, with the idle ranging from about 1200 - 500rpm. This carried on for around 10 - 15 seconds before cutting out.
Now whenever I try to start it, it fires with the same lumpy idle and cuts out after maybe 2 seconds. Sometimes needing lots of cranking to get it to catch at all.
All through this, it absolutely stinks of petrol.
The car is a '52 plate S80 T6, geartronic, on around 130k miles.
Any help would be much appreciated, my daily is a D24'd 960 and being all mechanically controlled I can usually persuade it to behave when it plays up, but the T6 is a completely different animal!!
My Dad uses it as his "retirement daily" if there is such a thing, so it could do with sorting asap really... I don't think his back would be able to take clambering in and out of my lowered 480!!
I should probably add that it did this once before, about a year ago. My Dad called the RAC out, they had no idea so towed him home. I disconnected the battery for a couple of hours and it ran fine afterwards.
I then had the codes read a week or so later and nothing showed up, presumably whatever code was stored from the breakdown had been wiped and not come back.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Steve
I don't usually poke my head in this section very often, probably because the S80 usually just soldiers on while the rest of the fleet require regular beatings with a hammer and lots of swearing!
To the point - tonight, the S80 started fine, on the button as usual, but then pretty much immediately started to idle very lumpily, like it was maybe down a cylinder or two, with the idle ranging from about 1200 - 500rpm. This carried on for around 10 - 15 seconds before cutting out.
Now whenever I try to start it, it fires with the same lumpy idle and cuts out after maybe 2 seconds. Sometimes needing lots of cranking to get it to catch at all.
All through this, it absolutely stinks of petrol.
The car is a '52 plate S80 T6, geartronic, on around 130k miles.
Any help would be much appreciated, my daily is a D24'd 960 and being all mechanically controlled I can usually persuade it to behave when it plays up, but the T6 is a completely different animal!!
My Dad uses it as his "retirement daily" if there is such a thing, so it could do with sorting asap really... I don't think his back would be able to take clambering in and out of my lowered 480!!
I should probably add that it did this once before, about a year ago. My Dad called the RAC out, they had no idea so towed him home. I disconnected the battery for a couple of hours and it ran fine afterwards.
I then had the codes read a week or so later and nothing showed up, presumably whatever code was stored from the breakdown had been wiped and not come back.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Steve