The car has been playing up for months now. The usual running problems like cutting out, bad starting(hot or cold), rough running, ABS light on etc. I replaced the OVP a few months ago which seemed to calm things down and the car ran okay-ish. Running great one day then no end of problems the next.
Today it went crazy, cutting out without warning, running like a pile of ****e, hunting up and down and surging. The ABS light was flashing on and off and then just as I was pulling up at the lights it surged forward rapidly and I had to stamp on the brakes hard.
The one last thing I hadn't checked before, was the Bosch KE-Jet ECU, so as a last resort I pulled it out and took the cover off to check the solder joints on the circuit board.
I found at least 30 dark and cracked joints !! The worst ones were where the loom clips into the ECU. So I decided to go over all the joints with the soldering iron just to be on the safe side.
Plugged the ECU back in and turned the key, the engine fired up almost instantly and idled rock solid.
I took it for a drive and it runs great with no cutting out etc. The idle is now silky smooth instead of being lumpy and hunting up and down. also now when I rev the car to say, 2000rpm and lift off the accelerator it instantly drops to 700rpm and holds rock steady. Beforehand it would have almost stalled, then hunted until it settled down to a lowly 500rpm.
Don't ya just love it when a plan comes together
Today it went crazy, cutting out without warning, running like a pile of ****e, hunting up and down and surging. The ABS light was flashing on and off and then just as I was pulling up at the lights it surged forward rapidly and I had to stamp on the brakes hard.
The one last thing I hadn't checked before, was the Bosch KE-Jet ECU, so as a last resort I pulled it out and took the cover off to check the solder joints on the circuit board.
I found at least 30 dark and cracked joints !! The worst ones were where the loom clips into the ECU. So I decided to go over all the joints with the soldering iron just to be on the safe side.
Plugged the ECU back in and turned the key, the engine fired up almost instantly and idled rock solid.
I took it for a drive and it runs great with no cutting out etc. The idle is now silky smooth instead of being lumpy and hunting up and down. also now when I rev the car to say, 2000rpm and lift off the accelerator it instantly drops to 700rpm and holds rock steady. Beforehand it would have almost stalled, then hunted until it settled down to a lowly 500rpm.
Don't ya just love it when a plan comes together
