Recent content by lukeee

I understand, I haven't needed the car as such for the past few months, but starting Monday it'll be putting in some miles.

It is misfiring, sorry I knew I'd leave something important out. I wouldn't know about the brakes binding, but assume that's something my mechanic would have picked up. I'm taking it back early in the morning, I'll throw these suggestions at him although he doesn't seen the character to take...

After looking around again, a lot of people talking about MAP or LAMBDA sensors, can anyone confirm whether these would be a cause?

I was told something similar to the choke, air flow meter is it? My car doesn't have one of those but I'll throw the idea at my mechanic tomorrow see what he says. It's really frustrating as I'm pretty clueless with cars past the basics so I don't have a clue what I'm looking for, and only...

W reg Fiat Punto, 1.2L For the past month or two my cars been losing a lot of power, shuddering and struggling to accelerate. This past month it has also been guzzling fuel, as in half a tank in 80 miles, which is more than it usually consumes. It is also throwing out a lot of black soot...