Sheriff69
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- 2002 VY S-Pak Ute V6
Here’s one of those annoying problems that we all face time to time with owning a car!
The car in question is a 2002 VY Commodore S Pack Ute, dual fuel, 5 speed manual.
It’s recently had an 180,000km service. The gas system (which is non Holden standard) has also been serviced a few months ago. New spark plugs were fitted during the 180,000km service along with your normal oils and filters.
The problem is that in the morning after start up on (on Gas at this stage) and only driving about 3km the car will idle at 3000rpm whilst in neutral at the traffic lights or a stop sign. You drive to a safe distance, pull over and turn the engine off, wait about 10 seconds and restart the engine with no problems – the car is now idling normally. In the afternoon when you drive back home the car doesn’t play up at all and behaves normally all the way home which is about a 40-50 minute drive. Five to seven days can pass before it will play up again as described above. Recently the car has played up all the time with switching the engine off and restarting it NOT fixing the problem.
We’ve had the Ute checked by an independent mechanic who attached the Tech 2 device into the car’s computer with no faults recorded. We’ve then taken it to a Holden dealer; they attached the Tech 2 to the car’s computer with a Low Voltage fault within the Fuel Injection System. According to Holden they required the car for a day to do further testing on the cars computers in an effort to try and isolate the problem, but the dealer being honest with me said that he didn’t want to do that at this stage as he would have to charge me a few hundred bucks with no possible answers.
Since the visit to Holden I have now flicked the cars fuel source over to petrol with no faults for the last 4 days. Next week I’ll be flicking it back over to gas to see whether the fault is either Gas related or Petrol related. At this stage it isn’t Petrol related.
When the fault occurs there are no engine fault lights illuminated on the dash to indicate a faulty sensor or other which I believe when running on gas it won’t do as the gas system is non standard, can anyone confirm that this would be the case please?
So I’m putting this annoying fault out there for anyone to try and help me with the cause of this problem. Any help or advice in fixing this fault would be greatly appreciated as no one at this stage can help me.
Thanking you all in advanced for your time.
The car in question is a 2002 VY Commodore S Pack Ute, dual fuel, 5 speed manual.
It’s recently had an 180,000km service. The gas system (which is non Holden standard) has also been serviced a few months ago. New spark plugs were fitted during the 180,000km service along with your normal oils and filters.
The problem is that in the morning after start up on (on Gas at this stage) and only driving about 3km the car will idle at 3000rpm whilst in neutral at the traffic lights or a stop sign. You drive to a safe distance, pull over and turn the engine off, wait about 10 seconds and restart the engine with no problems – the car is now idling normally. In the afternoon when you drive back home the car doesn’t play up at all and behaves normally all the way home which is about a 40-50 minute drive. Five to seven days can pass before it will play up again as described above. Recently the car has played up all the time with switching the engine off and restarting it NOT fixing the problem.
We’ve had the Ute checked by an independent mechanic who attached the Tech 2 device into the car’s computer with no faults recorded. We’ve then taken it to a Holden dealer; they attached the Tech 2 to the car’s computer with a Low Voltage fault within the Fuel Injection System. According to Holden they required the car for a day to do further testing on the cars computers in an effort to try and isolate the problem, but the dealer being honest with me said that he didn’t want to do that at this stage as he would have to charge me a few hundred bucks with no possible answers.
Since the visit to Holden I have now flicked the cars fuel source over to petrol with no faults for the last 4 days. Next week I’ll be flicking it back over to gas to see whether the fault is either Gas related or Petrol related. At this stage it isn’t Petrol related.
When the fault occurs there are no engine fault lights illuminated on the dash to indicate a faulty sensor or other which I believe when running on gas it won’t do as the gas system is non standard, can anyone confirm that this would be the case please?
So I’m putting this annoying fault out there for anyone to try and help me with the cause of this problem. Any help or advice in fixing this fault would be greatly appreciated as no one at this stage can help me.
Thanking you all in advanced for your time.
