Hi,
I was looking around for some ideas on what the problem could be with my 94 Rover 416 SLi, and came across your site.
Problem: Whenever the engine is not completely cold, the car has trouble starting. It turns over normally, but then immediately the revs fall to about 500 or even less and then stalls.
It starts fine first thing in the morning, but if I switch it off and try to start again, it starts giving me above problems. After a few tries, I usually manage to keep it going by giving it some throttle.
Now, I'm absolutely a-technical, but I remember having something similar a few months ago, but at that time the starting problems were also accompanied by sudden unprovoked rises in revs... without changing the throttle the car would suddenly rev tremendously. My local Rover garage then fixed this by putting in a new (well... refurbished) distributor. Could this be the same problem all over again? Or is there something less costly going on?
Hope you can help
Gwap
[Edited by Gwap on 28-07-2002 at 01:51 PM GMT]
I was looking around for some ideas on what the problem could be with my 94 Rover 416 SLi, and came across your site.
Problem: Whenever the engine is not completely cold, the car has trouble starting. It turns over normally, but then immediately the revs fall to about 500 or even less and then stalls.
It starts fine first thing in the morning, but if I switch it off and try to start again, it starts giving me above problems. After a few tries, I usually manage to keep it going by giving it some throttle.
Now, I'm absolutely a-technical, but I remember having something similar a few months ago, but at that time the starting problems were also accompanied by sudden unprovoked rises in revs... without changing the throttle the car would suddenly rev tremendously. My local Rover garage then fixed this by putting in a new (well... refurbished) distributor. Could this be the same problem all over again? Or is there something less costly going on?
Hope you can help
Gwap
[Edited by Gwap on 28-07-2002 at 01:51 PM GMT]
