Slave to the VYII
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Hi All, I am new to the forum and in need of your help/opinion! Last week I had my car serviced. It is a series 2 vy berlina with the 3.8 ECOtec, completly stock. There is a short story to this so bear with me,
Before I had the car serviced I had never had any issues at all with the motor. I have always had my Holdens (past and present) serviced at the Holden Dealership, and I service them every 10'000km.
After my last service (135'000km service carried out by Holden, car has actually travelled 125'000km) the car ran perfectly as it always however this is where it started going wrong,
Day 2 after the service; the car takes 2 turns of the key to get it started. I thought nothing of it as it was a cold moring
Day 3 after the service; again the car takes 2 or more turns of the key to start the motor, hot or cold the result is the same
Day 5 after the service; car starts up first pop, goes into reverse fine into drive and you're off. But put your foot down on the pedal and the motor almost stalls, back off and try again with the same result. Absloute loss of power, foot right to the floor and your doing 30km/h with the engine vibrating and missing badly. I crawled the car home and took my other car to work.
So later on in the day after I thought i'd check it out... this is where i'm at:
-Motor turns over but wont start/Motor turns over starts and dies strait away.
-Checked all the fuel lines right up to the top of the motor, return valve and fuel pump. All clear with apparent good pressure. petrol tank is full
-Checked the plugs - all ok
-Checked coil pack - ok
-Battery was in v.good condtion but is now flat
So I give in and phone Holden, they send their mechanic out to come and check it and he finds all of the above and says he thinks it is likely a fuel issue.
The car is then towed back to the dealer ship and I am left with a loan car. I am yet to find out what the problem is.
Has onyone else had a similar problem?? If so what was causing it?? This is the third ECOtec motor I have had and I never had a similar problem with my last ones. Both were in VS Calais/Berlina however.
Before I had the car serviced I had never had any issues at all with the motor. I have always had my Holdens (past and present) serviced at the Holden Dealership, and I service them every 10'000km.
After my last service (135'000km service carried out by Holden, car has actually travelled 125'000km) the car ran perfectly as it always however this is where it started going wrong,
Day 2 after the service; the car takes 2 turns of the key to get it started. I thought nothing of it as it was a cold moring
Day 3 after the service; again the car takes 2 or more turns of the key to start the motor, hot or cold the result is the same
Day 5 after the service; car starts up first pop, goes into reverse fine into drive and you're off. But put your foot down on the pedal and the motor almost stalls, back off and try again with the same result. Absloute loss of power, foot right to the floor and your doing 30km/h with the engine vibrating and missing badly. I crawled the car home and took my other car to work.
So later on in the day after I thought i'd check it out... this is where i'm at:
-Motor turns over but wont start/Motor turns over starts and dies strait away.
-Checked all the fuel lines right up to the top of the motor, return valve and fuel pump. All clear with apparent good pressure. petrol tank is full
-Checked the plugs - all ok
-Checked coil pack - ok
-Battery was in v.good condtion but is now flat
So I give in and phone Holden, they send their mechanic out to come and check it and he finds all of the above and says he thinks it is likely a fuel issue.
The car is then towed back to the dealer ship and I am left with a loan car. I am yet to find out what the problem is.
Has onyone else had a similar problem?? If so what was causing it?? This is the third ECOtec motor I have had and I never had a similar problem with my last ones. Both were in VS Calais/Berlina however.
