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integrale_evo wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 5:15 pm Sounds like low / no compression. Cam belt would be my guess. Can you prise the cover back so you can see it and look at it while someone tries to start it to make sure everything is turning?

This black cover?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/idins6vcmyv5w ... 6.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfrbm5hg5x6ap ... 2.jpg?dl=0

(Ignore the battery charger cables)

Yep whip that off.

Dave!

Any news @JonMad

16vCento wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:28 pm Any news @JonMad

Too dark to try getting that off now. Will try and get some time on it in the week.

A friend who helped me push it up the hill to the top of my road (he lives in the same road; has a couple of track prepped Meganes) suggested unbolting the fuel rail to see if fuel was getting through. Sounds like the fuel pump whirring when I turn the ignition on, but maybe that could be fine and an issue somewhere else. It’s not run out of fuel (according to the gauge plus how much I last put in it - which was a few months ago but I don’t think I can blame it on old fuel, as it ran fine for 30 miles today, up until the last 100 yards before home).

I’d start with no fuel reaching engine, whip off air filter and spray starter fluid down the intake.

Does the 1.4 have an egr valve? Sounds like our qashqai when it stuck open, meaning no compression.

With the DJlets back at swimming today, and with the changes to how things are done as a consequence of the pandemic, both cars were pressed into service to ensure that everybody got to where they needed to be at the right time without waiting around.

The Zoe easily swallowed 1 and 2's car seats thanks to the magic of ISOFIX and they were very excited to get their first trip in the electric car, they like the wooshing sound it makes when you apply WOT, makes a "space rocket sound" according to 1.

The seats don't offer anything by way of lateral support and the leather is quite slippery which discourages spirited driving, as does the numb steering. The Galaxy is the more entertaining of the two to push a bit, but it is a low bar.

On a late night run with a Mini Cooper S I managed to absokuteky wipe out the front tyres of the TT. That’s less than 5k for the fronts.

I shall find out how to add some more camber before I get another set of Pilot Sports. They really are a superglue kind of tyre, I was out accelerating the Cooper S on a large roundabout with barely a noise from the front.

Dave!

I collected a new trailer today, drove it 30 miles back and noticed a rather large hiss when I got out

Bastard.

That’s a plankture

If you haven’t twigged yet, that’s clearly a branch. Life’s a beech.

You going to stick a patch or patch a stick on the inside?

Doesn’t look like the cam belt is the problem.
Yes, I forgot to disconnect the battery charger.

Did you try a different key? Does it have an immobiliser light, does it go on and off like it should?

Did it beep when it cut out, and was the oil light flashing like it is now?

I've showed my friend it who knows a lot more about VAG than me, and he said it might be the oil pressure sensor/switch, that's why the light flashes and it beeps.

Apparently if it detects it has low oil pressure it will cut out to protect itself and wont restart. Its quite common for oil to get in the sensor and contaminate the wiring on 1.4 16v ones.

Thanks, I'll try the other key tomorrow, though the one I usually use is un/locking the car and turning the ignition on just fine. Can't recall an immobiliser light. The door switches pop up and down and I'm pretty sure they have a red light in them that I'd say goes out as expected when you unlock the car.

Re the oil warning chime and red oil light on the dash. That didn't happen when it cut out. The revs just gradually and fairly smoothly iirc went down to nothing. And in the 40 or so times I've turned the key to try and start the car, that warning and light have only come on that once - the one time I recorded it. I've not seen that light or heard that warning chime on any of my several starting attempts since that recording.

Re-checked my last fuel purchase. I filled it up in December and it's only done about 150 miles since then, so the fuel gauge and the 100+ miles of range remaining as indicated on the trip computer are believable.

mr_jon wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:41 pm Does the 1.4 have an egr valve? Sounds like our qashqai when it stuck open, meaning no compression.

Apparently it does, according to google and, among other places, amazon. Hmm...

If the transponder In the key has died, it will still lock and crank no problem, just won't send any fuel so it won't start.

Could be allsorts though!

Don't buy any parts until you find out what's wrong!

Hope it gets sorted cheaply

Just remove and clean the egr rather than spend money on my long shot. They are quite simple things.

mr_jon wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:43 pm Just remove and clean the egr rather than spend money on my long shot. They are quite simple things.

I wasn't planning on buying one. Just used that to point out it looks like they exist.
ok, will see if I can locate it

Tried the other key. Same.