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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / February 2008Irregular idling on diesel engine
My girlfriend's 2002 Honda Civic, which has a 1.7 turbo diesel engine, runs very roughly when it is first started and generates quite a bit of black smoke. The engine sounds as if it is limping - as if it is running on only 3 out of 4 cylinders. After a few seconds it is fine and it runs beautifully after that. Seems to be most common if the car hasn't been driven for a few days. Could it be a glow plug that needs replacing - is one cylinder not firing until the heat from its neighbours warms it up enough? > My girlfriend's 2002 Honda Civic, which has a 1.7 turbo diesel engine, runs > very roughly when it is first started and generates quite a bit of black [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Could it be a glow plug that needs replacing - is one cylinder not firing > until the heat from its neighbours warms it up enough? When were the injectors last serviced? Have you tried using some fuel conditioner? The symptoms sound like an injector is sticky and frees up once it gets warm.  SignatureSteve W. Near Cooperstown, New York Life is not like a box of chocolates it's more like a jar of jalapenos- what you do today could burn your a.s tomorrow! Steve W. wrote in message fq45kp$p1k$1@aioe.org: >> My girlfriend's 2002 Honda Civic, which has a 1.7 turbo diesel >> engine, runs very roughly when it is first started and generates [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > conditioner? The symptoms sound like an injector is sticky and frees > up once it gets warm. Thanks. I'll suggest she gets it looked at when the car is next serviced, and that she tries fuel conditioner (RedEx, or something like that?) in the meantime. I have never seen a civic with a turbo diesel. Are you in Europe? jfrancis311@gmail.com wrote in message 7af07f30-15cd-421c-b782-0ed2cde6107c@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: > I have never seen a civic with a turbo diesel. Are you in Europe? Yes - the UK. The land of horrendously overpriced fuel (about £1.10 per litre, which equates to about $8 per US gallon if I've done my conversion correctly), so there's a great incentive for people to buy the most fuel-efficient cars that they can. I get about 50 miles per UK gallon (40 per US gallon) in my Peugeot 306 HDi and my girlfriend gets about 60 in her Civic, which is a lot better than the 35 or so that I got in my old VW Golf with a 1.8 petrol (gasoline) engine. |
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