jeremy156
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Hoping for reassurance as my stomach did a flip this morning.
On starting the car it was a very rough unbalanced idle, as if half the cylinders weren't joining in. I stopped it, gave it a minute and restarted. Sightly lumpy, but settled quickly.
I then drive out of the local roads and onto a 70mph dual carriageway climbing a fairly steep hill (which I hate on a cold engine), so I pulled in and sat behind a lorry (56mph)... but when I looked in the rear view I was fogging out the road.
Got to the top of the hill and pulled off, parked and shut down. No faults logged and no smoke to be seen, running smooth as a top. Drive the rest of the journey without incident.
Could it be something like a sticky injector allowing a build-up of fuel in one cylinder which waited for the hill to come out the exhaust?
I don't think the engine would have gone past 2500rpm to bring in the second turbo... but I guess it's possible?
On starting the car it was a very rough unbalanced idle, as if half the cylinders weren't joining in. I stopped it, gave it a minute and restarted. Sightly lumpy, but settled quickly.
I then drive out of the local roads and onto a 70mph dual carriageway climbing a fairly steep hill (which I hate on a cold engine), so I pulled in and sat behind a lorry (56mph)... but when I looked in the rear view I was fogging out the road.
Got to the top of the hill and pulled off, parked and shut down. No faults logged and no smoke to be seen, running smooth as a top. Drive the rest of the journey without incident.
Could it be something like a sticky injector allowing a build-up of fuel in one cylinder which waited for the hill to come out the exhaust?
I don't think the engine would have gone past 2500rpm to bring in the second turbo... but I guess it's possible?
