Hi All,

New here and hoping to raid your knowledge a bit!

I am the owner of a 2003 Volvo S60 2.0T SE.

Very recently (Friday the 13th no less!) I was only my way to test drive a new car (Again I belive they call this sods law!) and I got off the motorway for me to spot my EML Flashing and going solid car lost most of it's power. Had the codes read and there were miss-fires in 2,4 and 5 present. The garage I took it to reccomended a second oppinion as they thought it may of well been a Coil Pack issue (Which for me would be the normal..) anyway, took to a specialist in my local area who have ruled out the Coil-Packs stating that they are fine, yet these missfires are still present, thus far they have ruled out the following:

• Coil Packs
• Injectors
• Fuel Pump (There is some 'drift' but the car is fine even with 1 Bar of fuel left)
• ECU Seems OK (Not 100% ruling this out yet though)
• Car still miss-firing with no Cat Conv on it
• Compression test came back OK

Now to me there isn't alot of conventional stuff that could possibly be left that would be causing the missfires (O2 Sensor/Lambada perhaps also?) but as my knowledge is limited in this sort of thing I could do with some other possibilities as I think after 4 days the garage are still scratching their heads as to what is wrong with it. Since all of this diagnosis work and now there are now missfires in all the cylinders except Cylinder 1.. not sure if this is relevant??

Work completed in last 10k:

- New Clutch
-Timing Belt Change
- Service (Regular)


Any help appriciated.

 

Where'd you buy your last tank of gas....er, petrol?
What condition is your battery in?
Bad MAF sensor?
Intake air leak somewhere downstream of the MAF sensor?
Fuel pressure regulator?
Blocked fuel filter?
Bad O2 sensor?
Plugged PCV system?
Bad crankshaft position sensor?

Also, what spark plugs do you have and when were they installed?

Remove the upper timing belt cover and check the timing belt tension. Should be very tight.

 

Where'd you buy your last tank of gas....er, petrol?
No where different than normal - Local supermarket


What condition is your battery in?
Reasonable. I have left the lights on once or twice (Had cars for ages that turned themselves off) very occasionally can take 4-5s to turn over though.

Bad MAF sensor?
I'll add that to the list but they did state that the compression test was ok

Fuel pressure regulator?
Again, stated that fuel pressure seemed OK.

Blocked fuel filter?
Another one to add

Bad O2 sensor?
Am going to ask them to check this as I don't think they have

Plugged PCV system?
Again another one for them to check

Remove the upper timing belt cover and check the timing belt tension. Should be very tight.
Timing belt was only changed aboue 3k ago and I think they have double checked it.

Plugs were last done on the service when I first picked it up about 9 months ago. Not sure what sort of plugs they are but I will ask them to make sure that they have changed em.

Thanks for that

 

hi guys n girls need help or i will go crackers i have a volvo s40 related problem to which i hope someone can help me ahem....i had my my car m.o.t recently and was happy n thought nice one,got my keys back went to my car fired it up n the gearstick was shaking n the steering wheel was shaking like mad too,revs were below 1000 rpm so i brought the mechanic back out n he said it was strange of it to do that,so he revved it n he said it was mis firing so i got him to change the spark plugs today n collected it AGAIN!! the bloke said he drove round in it today n it was perfect,so i drove it to my mates house which is half an hour away,parked it up for 20 mins fired it up again AND LOW N BEHOLD IT STARTED SHAKING AGAIN ARRRGH the stress!!! so i had to try n drive it the power was dying on me i couldnt do no more than 30 mph was really worrying as the car started to stink i manged to get home ...just parked it up n it stunk of petrol and smoke was coming out of the car,...so due to the no power in the car do i need to replace my coil pack? and can i use a s40 1.6 coil pack to go into a s40 2l? coz i have replaced my plugs which were the wrong type by the way, plaese someone help coz i dont wanna give up my car