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Old Yesterday | 06:03 PM
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My car was running great until yesterday . I was doing a 600KM highway trip from Melbourne to Canberra and I topped up from half a tank of 95 at Albury APCO. After that the car would hesitate under light acceleration. The weird thing was cruising was fine and If I planted the foot acceleration was fine as well - it was just light acceleration where the jerking was. I suspect a clogged injector. I thought maybe the fuel was mistakenly the lower grade so after having just over a quarter of a tank left I filled up with 98. The jerking improved slightly but was still there. I am going to run down to a quarter of a tank again and this time I am going to try injector cleaner fluid. Sound like a plan?
 
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Incidentally also my my 2.1L X-Type (and not long ago) I drove about 90km and arrived exactly at my destination, when the engine cut out when I was turning the car around to park on the other side of the street.
I parked the car, and 10 hours later, when I wanted to drive back, the car would not start anymore - just a few turns of the engine, with just enought power to drive 5m (meters!) and not more.
I got towed home, where I quickly found the issue: Simply a blocked fuel filter (and it is very easy to change, too). If they have not changed the way the fuel filter is connected between 2006 and 2009:
The fuel filter is under the car, in the rear section on the left. You just need something (small screwdriver or similar) to press those blue squares in to allow you to remove and swap the fuel filter...
 
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If you suspect you may have inadvertently acquired some water in your fuel, then just running it down to 1/4 tank and refilling won't clear it as the water will remain separated and lying in a strata at the bottom of the tank.
Try adding some Meths to your tank as that binds with water and it can then be successfully passed through the fuel system and burnt off.
If you are down at a 1/4 of a tank (15 litres or so of contaminated petrol), start with adding only about 100ml of Meths.
It needs to blend so the meths binds with any water, so find a empty carpark or a quiet street and do some tight turns and/or virtual chicanes to get the fuel mixing well in the tank.

Hopefully that will remove any water or condensate that has set up residence in your tank without much fuss.
Good luck.
 
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Originally Posted by h2o2steam
If you suspect you may have inadvertently acquired some water in your fuel, then just running it down to 1/4 tank and refilling won't clear it as the water will remain separated and lying in a strata at the bottom of the tank.
Try adding some Meths to your tank as that binds with water and it can then be successfully passed through the fuel system and burnt off.
If you are down at a 1/4 of a tank (15 litres or so of contaminated petrol), start with adding only about 100ml of Meths.
It needs to blend so the meths binds with any water, so find a empty carpark or a quiet street and do some tight turns and/or virtual chicanes to get the fuel mixing well in the tank.

Hopefully that will remove any water or condensate that has set up residence in your tank without much fuss.
Good luck.
I was down to about 1/4 of a tank so i put a bottle of meths in and filled with 98 RON fuel. If the problem persists I will next try injector cleaner once I am down to 1/4 of a tank again.
 
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Originally Posted by h2o2steam
If you suspect you may have inadvertently acquired some water in your fuel, then just running it down to 1/4 tank and refilling won't clear it as the water will remain separated and lying in a strata at the bottom of the tank.
Try adding some Meths to your tank as that binds with water and it can then be successfully passed through the fuel system and burnt off.
If you are down at a 1/4 of a tank (15 litres or so of contaminated petrol), start with adding only about 100ml of Meths.
It needs to blend so the meths binds with any water, so find a empty carpark or a quiet street and do some tight turns and/or virtual chicanes to get the fuel mixing well in the tank.

Hopefully that will remove any water or condensate that has set up residence in your tank without much fuss.
Good luck.
I don't suspect the fuel as being the culprit as I called the servo and they hadn't received any other calls about the quality of the fuel. I suspect a partially blocked injector - but I put the meths in just in case.
 
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