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codapane
27-08-2009, 09:50 PM
Ok so ya know when you run out of petrol you drop revs and it sounds like its running on 3 and not 6 you hit the accelerator and nothing happens apart from a funny half rev type thing this happened to me today twice pulled over dropped it into N gave it a few revs and it was fine

now the fun part

2005 TW magna factory LPG no petrol in my car and it has over 1/4 of a tank (the tank in the boot has a gauge built into the tank)

any ideas? if you need more info please ask sorry for my description I suck at telling how or what my car was doing as it fails

Ers
27-08-2009, 09:56 PM
What exactly do you mean 'nothing happens'?

Does the car try to accelerate but stutters?

Does it feel like a miss?

As it revs freely in neutral, im leaning towards a broken/dodgy lead - had this happen to me with 1000km old Top Gun leads. Would stutter/miss when accelerating, but in N it was fine.

Other things to look at could be spark plugs/distributor.

FFEEkY
27-08-2009, 10:05 PM
when was the last time you had the gas tuned by someone who isnt mitsubishi? Sounds like it could be running too rich / flooding (as poorly tuned gas likes to do lol)

Ers
27-08-2009, 10:10 PM
That too. Could be the LPG has gone out of tune? Anyway too tired, so I'll leave this to people with more of an idea :)

codapane
30-08-2009, 05:55 PM
im going to get it tuned by a gas guy this week I hope if I can get it in its got 86800kms on it so im going to change all the plugs the leads belts and w/pump also this week aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh there goes this weeks pay lol