On the A14 yestarday, clear and dry. doing about the speed limit... I noticed a slight misfire then nothing.... then a sudden serious lack of power and misfire bad enough to get me off the main road before it stopped all together.
I pulled up, gave it 5 minutes, checked for anything obvious, found nothing and set off again keeping the speed down at about 50/60 max driving back home along B-roads instead (wishing to avoid a breakdown on a dual carriageway) and had no further problems. I got back on the M1, then across to the A1M, and had no problems there either.... but was not about to try my luck.
I'm not loosing water, no scrambled egg in the oil, everything seems normal so what the hell was it ?
Any suggestions or answers welcome.
2007-09-16 00:26:09 · 3 answers · asked by mittobridges@btinternet.com 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Vauxhall Opel
Had the same problem once. It was a duff sparkplug. Got that fixed and worked fine. When did you last have them replaced?
2007-09-16 00:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if car sits for long periods outside, water condensation may have built up and collected in the fuel filter until it could hold no more [then a slug of water travels to and thruogh the injectors causing ltemporary lack of power and misfire.
pull the filter and dump contents into a clean glass jar [if you see rust and 2 seperated liquids you will know for sure]
2007-09-16 00:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by hobbabob 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sell it. Vectra's are a bag of bolts anyway...
2007-09-16 00:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋