BerlinaBen
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- VT Berlina S2 V6 + VZ Acclaim Wagon
Hi Everyone,
I've had a really annoying prolem with my VT which started not long after I had the LPG system fitted. The car will usually start OK, and I can drive off, but get say 100m down the road and it just goes dead. No cough and splutter, just stalls. If I knock it into neutral and turn the ignition to start, it will normally start and off I go again. This can sometimes happen a couple of times. I have been trying for ages to identify what might triger it but I am still unsure. It seems to only happen when the engine is cold, but is usually worse if it is a hot day. I was suspecting that a faulty valve in my ac ducting might have been resposible. My car does the really annoying thing where I give a bit of throttle and the AC starts blowing on the windscreen instead of towards me, untill I back off the throttle. I thought this sudden surge/drop in manifold vacuum might have been doing something funny, but I'm not so sure after finding it still stalled with the AC turned off. Definitley seems to happen more under heavy acceleratiopn, or if you go from heavy acceleration to backed off straight away, like stopping at an intersection half way up a steep hill.
The car was back at the LPG installers constantly, and it did fault for them, but they have no idea why. checked the install multiple times and cannot work it out.
It is now at the point where I will probly just get rid of the car because my wife just finds it too unreliable to drive on LPG. IT DOESN'T STALL ON PETROL!!
If anyone has any experiences/tips/ or advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Ben.
I've had a really annoying prolem with my VT which started not long after I had the LPG system fitted. The car will usually start OK, and I can drive off, but get say 100m down the road and it just goes dead. No cough and splutter, just stalls. If I knock it into neutral and turn the ignition to start, it will normally start and off I go again. This can sometimes happen a couple of times. I have been trying for ages to identify what might triger it but I am still unsure. It seems to only happen when the engine is cold, but is usually worse if it is a hot day. I was suspecting that a faulty valve in my ac ducting might have been resposible. My car does the really annoying thing where I give a bit of throttle and the AC starts blowing on the windscreen instead of towards me, untill I back off the throttle. I thought this sudden surge/drop in manifold vacuum might have been doing something funny, but I'm not so sure after finding it still stalled with the AC turned off. Definitley seems to happen more under heavy acceleratiopn, or if you go from heavy acceleration to backed off straight away, like stopping at an intersection half way up a steep hill.
The car was back at the LPG installers constantly, and it did fault for them, but they have no idea why. checked the install multiple times and cannot work it out.
It is now at the point where I will probly just get rid of the car because my wife just finds it too unreliable to drive on LPG. IT DOESN'T STALL ON PETROL!!
If anyone has any experiences/tips/ or advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Ben.
