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Hi

I recently bought a 1993 Vauxhall Carlton 2 litre 8 valve at auction and it started and drove very well. Then one weekend, i left the car running and after about 10 minutes of idling, i noticed it starting to idle very rough. The car would shake and revs would drop then go upto

2k revs before coming down again. This would continue along with a distinct smell of rotten eggs (excess unburnt fuel?).

I thought nothing of it at the time and it sat in my driveway for a week. On trying to start the car the next week, it turned over and over and did not fire up. I did it until the battery went dead. On connecting jump leads i managed to get the car started after about 5 minutes of turning over and pumping the accelerator. Eventually it did catch.

When started it misfires badly, occasionally stalls. Taking it for a drive, sometimes there is no power (foot to the floor - car struggling under 2k revs), sometimes there is full power.

If i turn ignition off and start again when hot, it has trouble starting again and it will turn and turn until eventually catching.

Help! It was running fine a couple of weeks ago!

Having read previous threads, am i correct in thinking it could be the ignition system which is at fault - HT leads, distributor, plugs etc or could it be a sensor of some sort?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

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stephen.parry
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Hi

I recently bought a 1993 Vauxhall Carlton 2 litre 8 valve at auction and it started and drove very well. Then one weekend, i left the car running and after about 10 minutes of idling, i noticed it starting to idle very rough. The car would shake and revs would drop then go upto

2k revs before coming down again. This would continue along with a distinct smell of rotten eggs (excess unburnt fuel?).

I thought nothing of it at the time and it sat in my driveway for a week. On trying to start the car the next week, it turned over and over and did not fire up. I did it until the battery went dead. On connecting jump leads i managed to get the car started after about 5 minutes of turning over and pumping the accelerator. Eventually it did catch.

When started it misfires badly, occasionally stalls. Taking it for a drive, sometimes there is no power (foot to the floor - car struggling under 2k revs), sometimes there is full power.

If i turn ignition off and start again when hot, it has trouble starting again and it will turn and turn until eventually catching.

Help! It was running fine a couple of weeks ago!

Having read previous threads, am i correct in thinking it could be the ignition system which is at fault - HT leads, distributor, plugs etc or could it be a sensor of some sort?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

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stephen.parry

I have a married Irish lady friend who lives in Bognor Regis,England,West Sussex County,currently,she is pod at me,again.(about sixty something miles South of London) She works for a UK government office.Her previous company car was a black 2000 Ford Focus car with automatic shift transmission.About a month ago,she got a new Vauxhall Astra club hatchback car with manual shift transmission to drive and the Vauxhall car is a grey color.She said her arm hurts from having to shift gears every two seconds and she hates that Vauxhall car,she wants her old company car back.(I don't blame you either,Maggie) cuhulin

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