Hi all.
My Zed didn't behave itself today and I'd welcome the opinion of the experts here. It's only covered 28k miles and had an inspection 1 with no advisories about 400 miles/2 months ago. It's a 56 Reg 3.0 si Roadster.
The time before last when I drove it I did notice a little hesitation when pulling away. I'd describe the feeling as a cylinder not firing. This was quite minor and I think it seemed to solve itself. No warning lights came on and I thought nothing more of it.
The car was however very low on fuel when I garaged it two weeks ago and I took it out again today. Same little 'misfire' again, perhaps more severe. It was then OK for about 10 miles when bad things happened. One cylinder (perhaps two) stopped firing and the EML came on. Then the warning light for low coolant came on as well. (Though only partly, it sort of varied in brightness and then went off). At this point I was on the motorway and as I left it again around 10 miles later the problem completely cleared. I assumed perhaps a blocked injector that became good but I'm no mechanic.
Anyway, driving home this evening the same thing happened for a few miles (with the automatic transmission light coming on for a little bit - weird in a manual car) but then everything came good and it seemed OK. I do think that the battery had probably got a bit flat after at least two weeks of no use, and I also think that a virtually empty tank of fuel didn't help. Those two things might be red herrings though and I shall book the car into the independent who performed the inspection one so that they can run a diagnostic on it.
I would however be interested in opinions here, and I should also say that despite those two fluid warnings, there is no sign of any leaks anywhere and I'm absolutely certain that they've had been attended to when recently inspected.
Cheers all.
My Zed didn't behave itself today and I'd welcome the opinion of the experts here. It's only covered 28k miles and had an inspection 1 with no advisories about 400 miles/2 months ago. It's a 56 Reg 3.0 si Roadster.
The time before last when I drove it I did notice a little hesitation when pulling away. I'd describe the feeling as a cylinder not firing. This was quite minor and I think it seemed to solve itself. No warning lights came on and I thought nothing more of it.
The car was however very low on fuel when I garaged it two weeks ago and I took it out again today. Same little 'misfire' again, perhaps more severe. It was then OK for about 10 miles when bad things happened. One cylinder (perhaps two) stopped firing and the EML came on. Then the warning light for low coolant came on as well. (Though only partly, it sort of varied in brightness and then went off). At this point I was on the motorway and as I left it again around 10 miles later the problem completely cleared. I assumed perhaps a blocked injector that became good but I'm no mechanic.
Anyway, driving home this evening the same thing happened for a few miles (with the automatic transmission light coming on for a little bit - weird in a manual car) but then everything came good and it seemed OK. I do think that the battery had probably got a bit flat after at least two weeks of no use, and I also think that a virtually empty tank of fuel didn't help. Those two things might be red herrings though and I shall book the car into the independent who performed the inspection one so that they can run a diagnostic on it.
I would however be interested in opinions here, and I should also say that despite those two fluid warnings, there is no sign of any leaks anywhere and I'm absolutely certain that they've had been attended to when recently inspected.
Cheers all.
otherwise i would take a peep in the handbook first 
