uh-oh...

[M-R-P]

Another trip out and all still good.

The wife's taking little M-R-P to legoland on friday, then it's Grahams bbq on Saturday. Hope the Sweed behaves.

[M-R-P]

Another 2 days of flawless driving...

Hoping it was just a one-off as the wife's already eying-up a lexus!

FFS

[silverhorse]

Another 2 days of flawless driving...

Hoping it was just a one-off as the wife's already eying-up a lexus!

FFS

Stop talking about it. You know what will happen if you keep talking about it!!!!

[V70 Graham]

Big test/mileage coming up Sat, I'm sure all will be fine.

[M-R-P]

Legoland tomorrow too.

[y2blade]

Lexus do make bloody fantastic cars Martin.

[V70 Graham]

Legoland tomorrow too.

You should have looked into a cheap Travelodge, might have been cheaper, Legoland is not too far from us.

[stribo]

Legoland tomorrow too.

Are you taking the ££££let home?

[JamesT5]

Driving to my mum's earlier and suddenly... No power, "reduced engine performance" on the screen and full limp mode.
I pulled over, didn't have my phone so had to install torque on the wifes phone. Got the code p1651 intermittent ecu fault.
Cleared the code and the cars been fine since. This doesn't look good as a new ecu ain't cheap and the wife will just want me to break the car
I'm hoping all the faffing about I did yesterday has disturbed something. Is this likely? I'll pull it all apart later and look.

I hope this isn't the beginning of the end for the Sweed.

Oh no, what is it with these ruddy cars and their electronic computer controlled devices!

They seem to cause no end of faults, holes in our pockets and often without any warning whatsoever. Martin, take out AA Garage cover because after advice from people on here I did to cover myself. You'll have a £35 excess to pay but the AA will cover the rest up to £500 - a big chunk of the cost for a reconditioned ECU or even a new one.

[ExternalError]

Are you taking the ££££let home?

He's part exing it for one of those lego cars, an upgrade if you ask me

[M-R-P]

Lexus do make bloody fantastic cars Martin.

Not a RX300 with 165k on it lol.

[JamesT5]

Put the ECU from the Starlet in there and give it a run. Failing that, take the ME7 out of the Sweed, put it in the Starlet, put a loud exhaust on it, big stereo and give it a chav type respray with a few rattle cans making sure you get that uneven look to it, and then go race around Poole like a tit.

[M-R-P]

The bitch did it again!

Coming back from the pistonheads meet, same situation as before - going uphill with the cruise control on doing 70 (ish) mph.

No code stored this time ???



Stopped the car, engine off, engine on roared away in a cloud of tyre smoke. Car working perfectly again.

Bloody thing.

[jdavis]

Very worrying Martin. Do you have vida? That will point you in a better direction to trace the fault
Fingers crossed it's something simple

[y2blade]

Good old Ford

[silverhorse]

Hmmmmm. worrying. Is it one of those things that when it happens it can be a bit dangerous? ie you come to a halt in the fast lane of the motorway? Not good if the wife and sprogs are on board

Hope it is something simple mate. £600 for an ECU change!!!!!

[M-R-P]

Actually, it drifts down slowly with no loss of brakes or steering etc, very safe, just annoying.

I have a theory which I'll be investigating.

[y2blade]

Intermittent issues are a bloody nightmare Martin

[oblark]

The bitch did it again!

Coming back from the pistonheads meet, same situation as before - going uphill with the cruise control on doing 70 (ish) mph.

No code stored this time ???



Stopped the car, engine off, engine on roared away in a cloud of tyre smoke. Car working perfectly again.

Bloody thing.

So thats why you did catch up with me on the way back,

[T5frankie]

Sounds to me martin has a slight itch for a new car