Thread: A mate's TD5 woes

just an update for anyone that was interested in this- i took the car for a 1400 odd kilomtere drive and had ZERO misses in the engine. the car drove and performed beautifully.
incidentally i got 390 ks from 37 litres fully loaded with camping gear, which i was happy enough with.

id checked for soot from the intercoler hoses and had none. i did not let the tank go below halfway seeing as i was far from home and i didnt want to test the "less than a quarter tank can give problems theory"
but i will give that a try later on. also i used the same fuel that had given me no problems before, which was claytex, they have so many servos these days its hard not to get one really.. i dont know if the fuel types had anything to do with it and still think that maybe by chance the problems just never occurred when using this fuel. after all when i had wiring and accelerator pot problems i had by chance been using other brand fuel types, one my mechanic said to stay away from, and also possibly i was running lower tank levels sometimes without knowing the pump would not be covered fully at that depth. however before i went away i had run it below a quarter to the point of hearing the pump whining a bit as i pulled into the servo and it still never gave me any misses that time.

so im not really much further to identifying what was giving me the misses but am happy just the same.

thanks very muchly for everyone that posted suggestions and comments and helped me with this. i intend to come back if and when the problem comes back and hopefully i may have a theory or a fix by then to help advise anyone else that may encounter a similar fault one day. cheers!