It Went Bang :-/

[Jake_GTI 0]

Was driving up bury hill in west Sussex earlier, if anyone knows it, it's a fairly long steep hill with 2 lanes goin up so you can give it some boot anyway, all of a sudden the car lurched, lost power for about 2 seconds and then the exhaust went bang and power seemed to come back!? Any ideas what this could be? Is it serious? My first thought was that it could be s*it in the fuel filter as I accidentally ran it out last week and it's possibly blocked the filter or something!?

[Anthony 1,003]

You can get a similar effect if the car loses spark for a second or two, as the unburnt fuel still being injected ends up in the exhaust and is ignited when the spark comes back.

[Jake_GTI 0]

So I gotta check the fuel filter and plugs!?

[Masekwm 2]

Mine did this when the wires from the coil were loose.

[Jake_GTI 0]

Mines an early one, doesn't have the coil pack as far as I'm aware!

[Jake_GTI 0]

Might be worth checking the Ht leads aswell yes??

[Masekwm 2]

The coil is under the black plastic cover irc.

[Jake_GTI 0]

Mine is a d reg so pre coil, is Ht leads and a dizzy!

[Masekwm 2]

Ht Leads - Dizzy Cap - Coil

[Jake_GTI 0]

Ok my bad, never heard of it being refered to as a coil pack!

[monkee87 2]

You still have a coil! The thing between the battery and the coolant bottle. The lead from the middle of the dizzy will go to it.

[Jake_GTI 0]

Yer ignition coil! I got it now lol, just me bein a tard!! All the leads seem to be in tight, Gunna have a look and see if my fuel filter needs replacing tomorrow!!

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

More likely a last cof spark than a fuel issue. The bang was due to there being fuel in the exhaust

[Jake_GTI 0]

Last cof spark?

[jackherer 543]

'Lack of spark' I reckon.

 

Been drinking Henry?

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

I hadn't up until that point but have had to have one to get over that error!!

[Masekwm 2]

Yer ignition coil! I got it now lol, just me bein a tard!! All the leads seem to be in tight, Gunna have a look and see if my fuel filter needs replacing tomorrow!!

Check the other wires that connect to it, not just the king lead.

[M_R_205 5 1 Cars]

This happened to me a couple years back on the A19, I was flat out when it happened and s*it my pants!, Couldn't find any thing wrong with the car, Never happened again

 

I think its just down to a 20 yr old french car.....

[Alan77 78 1 Cars]

Check the condition of the rotor arm and contact points in the dizzy cap.

[djackson1980 3]

Same-ish thing happend to me the other week but it was a slight bang, but its been fine since.

[CaptainP 2]

I had a bit of a 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' for a few weeks, turned out to be a duff distributor cap so I'd definitely be looking in that area like the other guys have suggested.

[Jake_GTI 0]

Think I have a spare dizzy in the garage, has been ok since apart from in btown on Friday, nightmare found a bolt had dissapeared from the airbox mount so it was flapping about all over the place causing all sorts of lurching etc! Sorted now and it seems fine!!

[Jake_GTI 0]

After saying it seems fine yesterday it's still lurching about a bit! Why would it be doing this? Think I need some one who knows a bit to come and have a proper look for me, could be a crate of beers in it ;-)

[Jake_GTI 0]

Any takers??

[Jake_GTI 0]

ok car has been off the road since monday gettin some repairs to the rear after i was reversed into, picked up the car today and it really wasnt happy while cold!! really struggling!!

went bang again and a bit of stuttering, loss of power and coming back etc!! i have checked the water and oil levels and theyre all good and no gayo so i dont think im looking at hgf with the power loss!

got home and checked all the leads are properly connected at both ends, not 100% sure they were at the dizzy end but cant tell because it seems to behave when it warms up a bit!

would heat make any difference in this scenario??

i cant work out what it could be as i have changed the afm and the pugs and leads are all fairly new, i would say no more than 6 months!

can anybody help me??