Hello everyone....so the car stalled 3 months ago and I found a mechanic lab at the Jr. college...they got the car in yesterday and, it will not start..they say it it "timing"? What does that mean???

 

Either the spark plugs are not being fired at the correct time with respect to the pistons, or (more likely) the cams are not opening and closing the valves at the right time again with respect to the pistons.

 

There should be fault codes; have they told you what they are ? The ignition, (spark) timing on modern engines relies on a sensors to tell the ECU where the engine is in terms of the ignition cycle for each cylinder. Normally there is a crankshaft position sensor and a camshaft position sensor. As far as I remember, if the cam sensor fails whilst the engine is running the ECU relies on what it detected at engine start and can keep the engine running, but cannot start the engine. If the crank sensor fails the ECU will stop the engine.

 

No they have not said anything yet...I will note your comments and thank you much!
Dad had a MG.

 

The valve timing for the engine is unlikely to have shifted as the camshafts are driven by chain. However this is not unknown with engines that used a toothed belt for the camshaft drive. The Jaguar 3 litre V6 diesel engine has toothed belts, an invention of the Devil IMHO !

Unless there were some very loud mechanical "noises-off" when the car stalled, I suspect it is all down to an electronic fault somewhere as I said before.

 

Update and I posted another thread...supposedly the car does not accept the key..the computer needs to be re-set. ????? I don't know but, they said everything else is good.
Does anyone know about his problem?

 

P1260?????

Key might need to be configured (or RECONFIGURED?) to the car.

A replacement ECM or other important module will need to have the 'immobilizer-setup' performed?

bob