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Femme D
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My car is behaving weird, It has regular services, I keep the fluids checked and top up when I need to. I use regular unleaded fuel - not premium or that ethanol mix stuff, I also make sure I use the petrol economically, occasionally almost emptying the tank then fill it up so as to refresh the tank so that it doesn't have old fuel mixing with new.
Whats happening is that sometimes it wont start at all, but if I wait a few minutes and try again it will start.
and other times it chugs kinda lurching, the engine revs then doesn't, so it kind of sputters - the "sputtering" mostly happens when I am driving at or under 60kms. This sputtering kind of seems like the car might be running out of petrol but yet the petrol gauge reads as though it has fuel. When it first happened I thought it might be bad or dirty fuel but it doesn't happen all the time, only sometimes.
Ive had my battery checked, and the spark plugs, Dad had a quick look under the engine at the starter motor to make sure the plugs are on properly - and they were
I don't have any money at the moment to be able to get it checked by a mechanic, I was just wondering if anyone out there had any ideas of what it might be, and also if there is anything I can do until I have money.
Someone told me that it might be a fuel filter problem, do you think what I describe could be that or something else?
Whats happening is that sometimes it wont start at all, but if I wait a few minutes and try again it will start.
and other times it chugs kinda lurching, the engine revs then doesn't, so it kind of sputters - the "sputtering" mostly happens when I am driving at or under 60kms. This sputtering kind of seems like the car might be running out of petrol but yet the petrol gauge reads as though it has fuel. When it first happened I thought it might be bad or dirty fuel but it doesn't happen all the time, only sometimes.
Ive had my battery checked, and the spark plugs, Dad had a quick look under the engine at the starter motor to make sure the plugs are on properly - and they were
I don't have any money at the moment to be able to get it checked by a mechanic, I was just wondering if anyone out there had any ideas of what it might be, and also if there is anything I can do until I have money.
Someone told me that it might be a fuel filter problem, do you think what I describe could be that or something else?