Cheers guys! Glad you had a good evening, the weather was superb too. Gutted I wasn't there!
Felt bad knowing you were waiting for me at Brampton too, sorry guys .
I was on the road to Cambridge and the car just started mis-firing and hesitating badly, then I heard a loud
ticking sound. I thought it was my worst fear, and that the big ends had gone
Pulled the car over and shut down straight away. Called a mate and he came and picked me up with a trailer.
Had a look at the car this morning and after 2 hours of searching I found the problem.
I'd just had the car serviced and it had new NGK plugs fitted. When I pulled the lead off number 3 I noticed some
white ceramic coating inside the lead, then I took the plug out and it was damaged to the point that the ceramic coating was just crumbling apart!
Popped down the local Halfords with the missus and picked up a new plug, and hey presto problem solved
Checked all the other plugs and there was no problem.
I just put it down to either manufacturing fault or the mechanic being a little to heavy handed
Car is running fine now, although my MOT is this week
Will wrap it up in cotton wool now until the next meet, then I will DEFINATELY be there
Laters all.