Hi guys

 

Driving back from town today and pull up to a round about and the car starts shuddering like its got a flat tyre, then see the engine management light going on and off, power down, but limped the car home, scanned it with the torque app and its fault codes are "P0304 cylinder 4 misfire detected" and "P0400 egr flow" any idea what could be causing this? 

 

Cheers in advanced 

 

James 

Egr valve clogged up.

Remove the top boost pipe and check it. Remove and clean if you can. Plenty of guides on here to do it but has some awkward bolts and is messy!

boost pipe? on a petrol? sorry if ive just said something really stupid, im a sparky and not a mechanic :/ would that stop just one cylinder from working?

Egr valve clogged up.

Remove the top boost pipe and check it. Remove and clean if you can. Plenty of guides on here to do it but has some awkward bolts and is messy!

boost pipe? on a petrol? sorry if ive just said something really stupid, im a sparky and not a mechanic :/ would that stop just one cylinder from working?

Coil pack or lead.

 

Ignore the EGR fault for now.

 

Don't worry about the oil burners, they assume everyone has a VRS.

I apologise, you didn't mention which car you had and I just assumed the Vrs.

What engine version?................AUB or BBZ?....................if you have coil packs over each Sparkplug then BBZ, if not then an early AUB.............defo check & swap over the suspect parts from cylinder 4 which is the right hand side of engine when looking at it (nearest the battery) & swap with say cylinder 1 (other end left side (timing belt)....................clear the fault codes & if new codes for cylinder1 come up then you have your culprit!.

What engine version?................AUB or BBZ?....................if you have coil packs over each Sparkplug then BBZ, if not then an early AUB.............defo check & swap over the suspect parts from cylinder 4 which is the right hand side of engine when looking at it (nearest the battery) & swap with say cylinder 1 (other end left side (timing belt)....................clear the fault codes & if new codes for cylinder1 come up then you have your culprit!.

 

 

I apologise, you didn't mention which car you had and I just assumed the Vrs.

 

 

Coil pack or lead.

 

Ignore the EGR fault for now.

 

Don't worry about the oil burners, they assume everyone has a VRS.

Cheers for the help guys, ill swap over coil pack on cylinder 4 onto cylinder 1 and see if the issue moves over and if so ill get a lift to eurocar parts and get another,

Thanks for your help guys! All sorted now, was indeed a dodge ignition coil. The old girl is now firing on all cylinders, I'm sorry that pun was intended.  :p