feduplrowner
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Hello everyone,
Newbie here, sorry, at my wits end with this problem.
Story so far, car was suffering with reduced performance light (red) coming on, done 120K miles, so it went into LR and had all the belts done and associated rollers etc. They traced a fault to the high speed fuel pump, so they changed it, tested it, light came on again. So they removed all the injectors, because they said there was a lot of black smoke coming from the exhaust, said they were dirty, re-furbed all and replaced one (faulty apparently). Tested again, light stayed off, collected the car after a £4k bill, ran for two days EMS light came on (amber), took it back as performance in the low rev range (below 2000) was really poor, seems like fuel starvation, delay when you push accelerator, hill starts impossible (electronic parking brake) because of the delay. Arranged to take car back, on the day the light went out but performance was still the same. They put on their machine nothing in CPU, test drove agreed to be sluggish. Cleaned all fuel lines out, cleaned tank, checked everything said it was ok, took car back. Light came back on the following day, delay problem still there. The light seems to come on and go off in random patterns, sometimes 2 days, then stays on for a day, then off for a week, then back on, but the delay seems to always be there. If you ease off the pedal, then gently press it seems better, then all of a sudden it will be fine & run sweet. On motorways its perfect, average fuel consumption 30MPG, no smell of fuel all as it should be. When its running properly its like a rocket, pickup in 4th, 5th & 6th is excellent, again low rev range, rubbish, steep hills impossible. Took back again to LR they found a split in the turbo hose, hooray, replaced another £200, two days later fault back yet again. I'm rapidly running out of money now does anyone have any ideas PLEASE.
Many Thanks
Newbie here, sorry, at my wits end with this problem.
Story so far, car was suffering with reduced performance light (red) coming on, done 120K miles, so it went into LR and had all the belts done and associated rollers etc. They traced a fault to the high speed fuel pump, so they changed it, tested it, light came on again. So they removed all the injectors, because they said there was a lot of black smoke coming from the exhaust, said they were dirty, re-furbed all and replaced one (faulty apparently). Tested again, light stayed off, collected the car after a £4k bill, ran for two days EMS light came on (amber), took it back as performance in the low rev range (below 2000) was really poor, seems like fuel starvation, delay when you push accelerator, hill starts impossible (electronic parking brake) because of the delay. Arranged to take car back, on the day the light went out but performance was still the same. They put on their machine nothing in CPU, test drove agreed to be sluggish. Cleaned all fuel lines out, cleaned tank, checked everything said it was ok, took car back. Light came back on the following day, delay problem still there. The light seems to come on and go off in random patterns, sometimes 2 days, then stays on for a day, then off for a week, then back on, but the delay seems to always be there. If you ease off the pedal, then gently press it seems better, then all of a sudden it will be fine & run sweet. On motorways its perfect, average fuel consumption 30MPG, no smell of fuel all as it should be. When its running properly its like a rocket, pickup in 4th, 5th & 6th is excellent, again low rev range, rubbish, steep hills impossible. Took back again to LR they found a split in the turbo hose, hooray, replaced another £200, two days later fault back yet again. I'm rapidly running out of money now does anyone have any ideas PLEASE.
Many Thanks
