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this car seems to hate saturday nites last week tps failed which i fixed and now car wont start been running fantastic all day jumped in the car took it for a drive up my street i gave it a little hit in first selected 2end gear no probs then car lost power so i shut it off kinda felt like fuel surge my fuel gauge is a bit funny so i put 7l of fuel in it still wont start checked all fuses there all ok i checked for spark by pulling a coil out put a screw driver in the coil to see if it would show spark when i cranked it and could not see any spark

any ideas peoples id very much appreciate it

Bad earth. Check your battery terminals & the earth strap to the gearbox.

Bennoz wrote:Bad earth. Check your battery terminals & the earth strap to the gearbox.

all brand new and new battery the car cranks as normal just wont start

You need to do a manual ECU code test, as could be sensor/s, injector/s, coil/s, fuel, etc
You sure none of your engine and/or throttle body sensors have unplugged themselves?

Silly Question I know "BUT" Did you check both fuse boxes???
With a Multimeter?

More info (again)...

mattman wrote:

Bennoz wrote:Bad earth. Check your battery terminals & the earth strap to the gearbox.

all brand new and new battery the car cranks as normal just wont start

We're into familiar territory here! Finish this sentence:

If it was working before you touched it, .............................................

See if you have spark on any other cylinder, if you don't, it's going to be the injector harness plug not been hooked up properly, perhaps when you did the battery or TPS.
Go back over all your work. Failing that, check error codes & report back. And I still have suspicions about the earth btw...

ok lets clear a few things up last saturday i had a problem with the tps which was fixed on monday car has been driven all week have not put a spanner to it drove it up the street car lost power as i was driving i shut it down straight away i checked all fuses in the engine bay and in the car checked all connectors every thing looks good ???


this code test how do i do this?

thanks so much you 2 for your help i got code 22 crank angle sensor so i had a look around the crank and omg the ac belt jumped off a few teeth the belt sheered in half warped it self around the back of the crank pulley and snapped the wires going to the crank sensor ill post a pic for you guys

Umm wow lol that's pretty unlucky

Hahaha, same thing happened to me a couple of years ago.
Do you have much wire length still showing out from the timing belt cover.
I had about 3mm of wire hanging out and I was just able to reconnect without removing timing cover.
I had to get the FTO towed home when mine happened.
After I fixed it and put on a new belt, the belt broke again within a week and rebroke the sensor wires.
Ended up having to change the tension pulley as the bearing was f**ked causing the belts to break.

The old crank angle chestnut hey... i think it's happened to just about all of us!

Not me.

silverGPX wrote:Not me.

Good one dickhead, you've just jinxed yourself

I touchwood'd offline

Although even though mine hasn't I've had a lot more issues noone else has had lol

looks to be a common problem i have to replace the crank angle sensor as it has ripped the wires right off the sensor looks like a straight forward job ???