Hi!
I´m driving a 300 TE-24 from 1992.
The car doesn´t like standing around much, so to speak. :]
I just drive it occasionly, so it gets to stand around quite alot. At first, the problems would only occur if it was parked for a week, but now it´s enough with three to four days of standing still:
It will start perfectly, showing no signs whatsoever of what is to come (sneaky car, it shure is!), but after about 10 minutes of driving it starts to "hack" on low revs. Not responding as it should when I put down the speeder (lightly). Now if I stop at a light and carefully try to go, it will go out. Once the motor has stopped it takes forever to get it running again. I have to wait about 15 minutes between the startattemps and in about an hour I will have succeded in getting it running again. (It´s quite cold here in Denmark at this time of year so this is not a very amusing thing to do!) At this point I take it for a ride. Letting the motor come to it´s right running temperature and then I will start to drive it quite hard "to clean" it out. This "helps". It gets better and better, but even after driving it around for 30-40 minutes it will "hang" at about 6000 RPM´s. For example: I push the accelerator full down and after some "stuttering" it revs up and goes like it should, almost, but only up to about 6000 RPM´s where it "hangs" and "tries" to go beyond that since I still have the accelerator full down. After having driven it around for these 30-40 minutes I park it. And it will run fine the next morning, almost not showing any signs of problems. This procedure I have to do the evening before if I want it to run somewhat reliable to work the next morning, that is if it hasn´t been driven in three to four days. I don´t need to say that this starts to get annoying and it´s a time and fuel consuming, freakish cold, game.
This car has most probably been treated very badly by it´s previous owner, and my dad, who owns the car hasn´t had it serviced for the last
3 years. (He is also terrible car owner, fuel is the only thing he gives his cars, shhh, don´t say anything)Now I´m not going to do a complete motor rebuild, something that is most probably needed, but I am looking for an easy way out, an "light" answer on what the problem could be. Myself, I presume that this problems stems from the fuelinjector beeing clogged/dirty, and I have tried with those supermarketfluids that apparantly should help with those issues, but with no result whatsoever. Maybe I can do something easy, like changing sparkplugs? It´s not my car and I just want to keep it running so I can get to work twice a week and do the weekly foodshopping.
This problem never came up when my dad had the car, since he drove it every day.
I would be grateful for any answer (here in the newsgroup or by mail) that might help me fixing this problem myself, even if it only temporary. A proper service is what is needed, that I shure know.
Sincerely,
Niclas _______________________
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