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    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 at 11:40pm
Driving home today . Stopped behind traffic and my 1.8 Petrol just died . She was showing 48 miles till empty, but she's done that many times before without problems and the "feed me now, you tight Welsh git" light was not on (once, seriously , only ever once).Would not restart. Has been fine up to now , well mostly. When warm she hunts down to nearly stalling, but recovers (this is recent behaviour), when started. No cold start issues whatsoever. Had a recent engine over heat pulling in to the Isle of Wight "Kick up the eighties (OK it's Jack up the eighties , but Mrs L made me go, no heavy metail... " festival, but this was after I renewed the coolant, and then replaced the water pump in the dark(was making tweeting noises), and forgot to replace the clamp (yes I am a twit, to put it mindly).  Oil has been replaced at 5000, no rattling noises (cambelt ). Checked engine codes and there aren't any. Have not yet performed the rear light cluster  earthing fix . Any ideas (p11 owners please resist the urge to tell me that it's a French wired piece of shit, I know that. My lovely p11 died of rust rust and more rust), and yes I miss it. By the way NO Primera's passed me on the A449, if they had I have no doubt that they would have stopped. And laughed I suspect. Any ideas (other than shooting it, I have the gun ready). TIA!

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Good call. Without getting sprayed in petrol, what's the safest way to do that? I checked the pump fuse and that seemed ok.
Thanks for the response.
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Jar, thumb, someone to crank the car
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Cam chain strikes again.
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Update. Checked the fuel pump fuse , intact. Found all the relays, gave them a prod then used a stethescope to listen for clicks, all did. Lifted the back seat, took exposed the fuel pump. Got Mrs BB to switch to lights on but no engine fire up to listen if the fuel pump cycled. Nothing. Hmm! Pushed the connector. Tried again. Fuel pump cycle. Tried to start, and she did and run as well as a 1.8 P12 ever does. Blipped the throttle and heard what I can only describe as a weird hissing noise. Turns out , at some point, stupid here dropped an aerosol can top down by the air intake and it was mostly blocking it. Fingers crossed the odd loose connector or poorly seated relay is the cause. I don't think the plastic lid was totally stopping it, but I can't see it helping. So, for now, she's running. Hoping that's all it was. Electrics though....... Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
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Great news, hardly electrics though, fuel, air and spark things to check to get elimination of the obvious. it is not unknown for the headlight cover to become detached and cover the air intake.. Pleased it was nice and simple
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Still cam chain problem imo.You'll know soon when the same problem starts again.Soon you'll get a pending code for crank/cam related issue,thats the sign.Then next it's EML.
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If this happens, is the car scrap, or is it just a new cam chain? (I say just I expect it won't be that cheap or simple).
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It is scrap if the chain snaps or slips, to be proactive a change the chain and tensioners is not an easy or cheap repair.
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