fuel info for a newbie

[ScoobyAndy]

Welcome to the mad house Amanda.

Enjoy your stay and hope you get your car going properly.

[dave_morgan]

Hi Amanda,

In all honesty it could be loads of things, so start with the simple things and if you don't get anywhere, take it back to Halleys.

1 - Check the oil level - Overfilling can cause strange behaviour. If it is over, take it back to Halleys, as they should drain it off and sort the other knock-on effects caused by the overfill.

If oil ok....

2 - Fill with a tank of optimax from a different garage to normal.

3 - Depending how technical you are, perform an ECU reset. Search the technical forum for instructions, but it's a pretty easy thing to do if you don't mind lying upside down in the foot well of your car, and plugging 2 plugs together!! This will force the ECU to 'forget' that you've had bad fuel in the past and set things back to defaults (a bit like rebooting a computer when it's misbehaving!).

Beyond this, I'd head back to a dealer and let tem plug in their dioagnositc tools to find the problem, as it could be quite a number of things from leaky hoses, loose plugs to faulty sensors.

HTH

Dave

[**amanda**]

hi everyone

thanks for the welcome and the advice.

last night went to linwood put in optimax then had a few blasts up an down the motorway(like a stole it)

this morning the car felt a bit smother it wasnt as jerkey. all let yous all no how i get on once av had a few tanks..

fingers crossed thats it getting better.

thanks for all the posts

amanda

[scoobyfuzzy]

looks like amanda aint as popular as chloe, going by 13 pages for chloe, and only 2 for amanda....

hi amanda and welcome

fuzzy

[dave_morgan]

I'm sure if Amanda wanted the attention, she could just drop in the word 'single' and suddenly the rush would begin !!

[vicki]

Hello and Welcome Amanda

[pedals]

Hi Amanda and welcome to the forums

Im from Inverkip, so have the same problem as yourself when it comes to optimax. The nearest shell to us is the one in Erskine. I normally fill the tank up when im passing the shell, but failing that i have to use BP ultimate and refrain from going too mental!

pedals