Charlie Charles
Member
Good evening all,
I'm hoping someone can shed light on a problem I can't get to the bottom of.
The symptoms are:
When I take my foot off the accelerator, there is a pause and then the car lurches momentarily. Occasionally it will lurch a couple of times. The lurching is particularly noticeable when the engine is not up to temperature and is about 80% better when the engine is up to temperature. The lurching is worse when using engine braking when going down hill. It can really kangaroo a bit.
The second symptom (again, much worse when the engine is cold) is that the car seems to hunt when going along steadily between 1,400 and 1,800 revs. I can hold the accelerator at a point where it will just be on-off-on-off.
It has been on diagnostics at a Landy specialist. No fault codes. The car has had an EGR blank, straight through pipe and a remap by Mike at Dynachip. I don't know if it didn't do this before. I have replaced the harness and rtv'd the loom's weak points, cleaned the red plug several times and then put vaseline in the port to prevent further ingress. She starts up instantly, accelerates smoothly, without fault, and pulls like a train. The problem is only when neither accelerating nor decelerating at low revs, and when decelerating. Always much worse when cold.
Please throw all the suggestions at me that you can!
Many thanks
I'm hoping someone can shed light on a problem I can't get to the bottom of.
The symptoms are:
When I take my foot off the accelerator, there is a pause and then the car lurches momentarily. Occasionally it will lurch a couple of times. The lurching is particularly noticeable when the engine is not up to temperature and is about 80% better when the engine is up to temperature. The lurching is worse when using engine braking when going down hill. It can really kangaroo a bit.
The second symptom (again, much worse when the engine is cold) is that the car seems to hunt when going along steadily between 1,400 and 1,800 revs. I can hold the accelerator at a point where it will just be on-off-on-off.
It has been on diagnostics at a Landy specialist. No fault codes. The car has had an EGR blank, straight through pipe and a remap by Mike at Dynachip. I don't know if it didn't do this before. I have replaced the harness and rtv'd the loom's weak points, cleaned the red plug several times and then put vaseline in the port to prevent further ingress. She starts up instantly, accelerates smoothly, without fault, and pulls like a train. The problem is only when neither accelerating nor decelerating at low revs, and when decelerating. Always much worse when cold.
Please throw all the suggestions at me that you can!
Many thanks
