Over the last couple of weeks I have been having a intermittant problem with my FD. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png



When I first drive it, it runs fine but when I've stopped the engine and start it again 5 mins or half an hour later everything seems fine until I start to accelerate away. It seems to struggle to accelerate in first and second gear jerking, spluttering and back firing. I've not been able to get it past second gear. When it does this I've found just pulling over and turning the car off completely fixes the fault. When i start it up again it drives perfectly as if nothing even happened.



It seems to me that the problem is electrical but just a guess. I've just put in new plugs but hasn't made any difference. Sometimes fault wont occur at all, other days it happens every time.



Anyone have any ideas? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

My car had been doing that a lot for the past 2-3 months. It finally got so bad that the car was constantly like that. and yes, you are right, I think it is electrical. the wiring becomes old and brittle, then it shorts out and causes the ecu to switch to LHM. once you cut the power to eveything (turn car off, or reset ECU) the car would be fine. I had to pull the UIM and just start tracing wires in the harness. takes a long time but eventually you will find the problem. mine was one of the injector plugs had become old an brittle and it had a really crappy connection for the injector. anyway, hope this helps.



--Andrew

Spoke to someone at a workshop today. Confirmed that fault is electrical and that it might be a faulty sensor or solenoid. Was told that there's not much they can do to repair it at this stage, not until fault comes and stays. I've got the car for sale at the moment so timing is really bad https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png



Thanks for suggestion 007 but I hope it doesn't take that long to fix it.