Background to the car, its a 51 reg, 1.2v 8v Petrol Mia.
A couple of weeks back (3 at the most) I filled up with petrol from Sainsbury's (full tank). After a couple of days, the Fuel System Failure light came on (see attachment for symbol, although coloured orangey/yellow). However, the light itself has never permanently stayed on. I think the longest its been on is three days. Light comes on, goes off, comes on, every couple of days
I think i've potentially got a batch of dirty fuel, so i ran the car, got some new fuel, and added some Fuel Injector Cleaner to it as well. Car has been driven around 300mile since the cleaner was added
All was well for about a week, then yesterday, the light came back on, this morning, started the car, it was off, this afternoon, it was on again.
The car hasn't seen any loss in power /performance, and runs and sounds as it did before the light occured. No juddering/jumping or what have you, either at idle or when pulling away. Which, from reading other threads, seems to rule out a misfire (caused by whatever)??
The only blip it has, is when I start the car, it the engine noticeably (from inside the car) judders (can be felt throughout the whole car). For maybe 5 seconds max, then it runs fine, and then never misses a beat. It does seem like it judders more when the engine is cold, as apposed to when its been driven. AGain, when the light is on, sometimes it judders, sometimes it doesn't
Well, there appears to be no major problems. I hear you cry. My only concern is what is it hiding? Is it doing any major damage underneath? As of tonight, the light was still on. I'm off to work tomorrow morning at 8am, I'll report back as to the state of the light when I get in.
What would be your next plan of action?
Cheers fellas
Yarde
A couple of weeks back (3 at the most) I filled up with petrol from Sainsbury's (full tank). After a couple of days, the Fuel System Failure light came on (see attachment for symbol, although coloured orangey/yellow). However, the light itself has never permanently stayed on. I think the longest its been on is three days. Light comes on, goes off, comes on, every couple of days
I think i've potentially got a batch of dirty fuel, so i ran the car, got some new fuel, and added some Fuel Injector Cleaner to it as well. Car has been driven around 300mile since the cleaner was added
All was well for about a week, then yesterday, the light came back on, this morning, started the car, it was off, this afternoon, it was on again.
The car hasn't seen any loss in power /performance, and runs and sounds as it did before the light occured. No juddering/jumping or what have you, either at idle or when pulling away. Which, from reading other threads, seems to rule out a misfire (caused by whatever)??
The only blip it has, is when I start the car, it the engine noticeably (from inside the car) judders (can be felt throughout the whole car). For maybe 5 seconds max, then it runs fine, and then never misses a beat. It does seem like it judders more when the engine is cold, as apposed to when its been driven. AGain, when the light is on, sometimes it judders, sometimes it doesn't
Well, there appears to be no major problems. I hear you cry. My only concern is what is it hiding? Is it doing any major damage underneath? As of tonight, the light was still on. I'm off to work tomorrow morning at 8am, I'll report back as to the state of the light when I get in.
What would be your next plan of action?
Cheers fellas
Yarde
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