back fired and died

[mini_kris]

had just started my car up, let it warm up for a few minutes and slowly crawled down the road, turned out of my road and gave it a blip you could feel like a build up of pressure under the accelerator then it back fired the engine managment light came on and rolled to a stop

am i rigth in thinking this is most likly and ignition problem, im going to go to the scrappers monday and see if i can get a coil and leads

is there anything else it could be, timming?

oh its a k red 1.2 spi engine

[General Baxter]

dont replace anything broken, you can pick a new engine up for ?5 lol

try carb cleaner everywhere?
does it start now?

[mini_kris]

carb cleaner every where?:confused:

[General Baxter]

yes its a 'cough' carb lol

[mini_kris]

no its injection ;)
i do no what a carb is and its deffinalty not a carb lol

[mini_kris]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d157/minimankris/DSCN0514.jpg

funny lookign pierburg baxster

has anyone got any other ideas, other than its a carb lol

[General Baxter]

its a carb with an injector ;) lol

[Martin]

i'l sell you a new 1.2spi just had a service.. new plugs,oil (most of its spillt out whn we took it out tho..

?10 its ures..

was gonna do a stu on it n rebuild it to a decent spec.. but meh lol

[mini_kris]

where abouts are you?

[JJL]

Take the dizzy cap off look inside it were the coil lead plugs in theres a little metal cylinder with a spring behind it. This fell out of mine when i had one and my car did exactly what yours did

[mini_kris]

*scratchs head* took the dizzy cap off an theres no visible spring so pressed the metal cylinder thing in and out and its springs in and out so do i presume its not that

[JJL]

yeah its not that

[Adam]

Right, are you getting a spark from the coil?
Does the ECU light come on with ignition?

Also, check the cambelt is still in one piece, and the engine is timed correctly.

Read the fault codes out that the ecu's stored.

Wheres Eccleston?, i have an entire spare 1200i engine.

[mini_kris]

right done a contanuity test on the ht leads and the roatar arm and well..... nothing, cambelt is fine and timming was fine when checked last week, the ecu light does come on when the ignition is on but always has done but when started up goes off, tryed reading the fault codes with the snap on fault diagnostics tester and it spazzed out, so tryed it on the golf and it was fine? so for some reason i cant get a reading off the nova, also there is no spark from the coil,


has any one got a decent roatar arm, set of leads and a coil they would sell and post to me next day as i have a little bit of money in my paypal account

p.s eccleston is about 15-20 minutes south of preston

[Adam]

Sod the code reader.
Get yourself a paper clip, straighten it out, go under the bonnet next to the wiper motor, undo the plug thats clipped on the firewall.
It has about 8 wires.
Put a paper clip between pins A and B.
Leave it in.

Turn ignition on, and count how many times the ecu light flashes.
Each code is repeated three times, the first code you'll get is 12- 1 flash-1second pause-2 flashes=12

No spark from the coil, its either the distributor hall sensor, or the coil itself.

[Dave.]

jjl your a star. its fixed. cheers

[Lee]

i'l sell you a new 1.2spi just had a service.. new plugs,oil (most of its spillt out whn we took it out tho..

?10 its ures..

was gonna do a stu on it n rebuild it to a decent spec.. but meh lol

Jesus, is that all theyre worth now?

Think ill strip mine and make it into a top gear style table lol

[Adam]

Jesus, is that all theyre worth now?

Think ill strip mine and make it into a top gear style table lol
I offered mine for free, never even got a Thread view,LOl lol