Au common probs

[Cannibal]

This is in reply to the common probs thread awhile ago.

My girlfriend and myself bought a 1999 series 1 au forte about a year and a half ago. A beautiful car, how ever it seemed to have a miss at idel so back to the car yard. They said it was the leads and plugs, the replaced the plugs and put (what we were lead to believe) new leads. Still seemed to have the miss. After much stuffing us around like, is had a small leek from what looked like the shocky. So back it went, the dude told me that is was from someone spraying the hand break cable, they sent us on our way. The next service at Ford they told us that the shocky was stuffed. Back to Proton and give them a serve and it was fixed. Back to the story. After about 13 months, and be stuffed around by the dealer and Ford, telling us that this and that was wrong in order to fix the miss. They said that the injectors and fuel rail needed to be cleaned, WRONG. The last time I was there I cracked the s made a seen, the head mac took it for a drive and found the probs. Proton put the wrong plugs in, they were for a laser not a au. And he told me some common probs.

1. The miss at idel is the computer leaning out the engine to get the best fuel econ when you are sitting at the lights. This also causes slugish take off and can sometimes miss on take off.

2. The tourqe converter acts as an overdrive. In the first run they had probs when is moves in and out of gear. This can make it jerky when you acc and holding revs up a hill around 80-90 kms. Also can happen when acc and holding revs up a hill around town. They fixed it in the series 2 and 3. It seems to make the car chug, but it aint it is the converter moving in and out.

So there you go two more probs.

[Peuty]

Did they realise the plugs were for a laser before or after they found 2 missing?

[Cannibal]

The dealer put the plugs in and they had no idea what was wrong.

It was Ford that found that they were wrong.