In other news, Pippa Puma is enjoying a holiday with 'Uncle Richard' at Tremona Garage to see if he can figure out my perplexing intermittent loss of power issue.
She always starts first time even on the frostiest of frosty mornings, always gets me from A to B, idle is spot on - purrs nicely when at a standstill or slowing down for lights etc, drives beautifully most of the time, but has 'off moments' where she's sluggish and depressed - even when up to temp. It's completely random with no rhyme or reason; doesn't matter whether it's a hot or cold day, or how far I'm driving. If I'm doing multiple journeys in one day, she might be perfect in the morning, have a grumpy moment in the afternoon, and be fine again in the evening.
She's had new plugs, coil pack, HT leads, MAF, HCV, clutch/slave cylinder, fuel filter, oil filter, fresh oil (Shell Helix) every 5,000 miles max (last change was at 3,500), the power steering connector thingy and clutch position sensor have been checked, no faults codes logged on the ECU, Richard even tried swapping out the lambdas for known-good ones but this didn't solve the issue either - all within the last six months, so all the usual suspects have been ruled out. Driving with the ScanGuage shows all sensors are working as expected - no dead spots on the throttle position sensor, lambdas switching normally, battery voltage maintaned at a steady 14v, ignition readings all tickety boo. It's a head scratcher!
He's got her for a week, will be using it as his daily driver to see if he can work out what the problem is; every time I've taken her in for other normal servicing stuff, typically she's behaves herself, driving perfectly, making it difficult for him to diagnose. Same happened when I took her to see Steavie - was a cow pretty much all the way there, literally turned into Steavie's road and she was back to normal. :evil:
edit: car regularly returns the right side of 40mpg and doesn't use any oil - I have a 1l bottle of oil I use to top it up if/when required (super anal about checking regularly, before long journeys along with tyre pressure etc - still over half full after a year and 15,000 miles).
