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right! narrowed this down to a sensor issue now (i bloody hope) thought i'de try turning it on and off again (dont know why i haven't tried this yet) while on the move and it brings it back to life again for a short while! tried multiple times with the same results ecu is obviously getting told to c...

i unearthed the connectors for the lambda sensor from under the battery tray earlier mainly to clean up the earth points going under the battery tray so moved them around to make them easier to access hunted around on the forum a bit and saw rpruen saying that an o2 sensor fault will make the ecu ge...

hi everyone bit of an update. went through and checked sensors resistance looks good across the lot. maf is set at 392. pulled injector rail out yesterday, again consistent resistance across injectors also cleaned them out while there. replaced all vacuum ends just incase. swapped plugs out again sa...

back to her old ways god i hate fuel injection. guess theres a few things wrong with the old girl and i'm just slowly getting through them. i'm still finding this odd though, never really had a car before that would go fine one minute then be crap the next consistently and the fact its just instant ...

All in the small victories! spent the day messing on with it. cleaned up crank sensor, smoke tested the inlet and cleaned the maf out etc etc. went to start it later on and nothing but cranks! checked spark and hey presto the new coil i'de put on it was goosed put old one back on and back to life. T...

unfortunately only socket 3 and 5 are wired in in my car nothing to connect to in any other socket, found this unusual as my 480S is wired up on socket two. maybe lads at the factory were clocking off when this was built! got a flyer from work today so going to try and get to the bottom of this. wil...

Just changed plugs (ngk r) cap, rotor arm, ht leads, coil and module all new. also just replaced fuel filter. didn't think pressure gauge would be the issue but these cars can be brilliant like that. yeah oil light comes on when starting then goes off. i have error codes: 4-5-2 4-4-4 1-4-2 and 3-1-4...

Another update cant find multimeter as the garage is just chaos so will check that tomorrow evening. dont know if it would matter to this issue but my oil pressure gauge doesn't work, could that have anything to do with it? maybe ecu not getting a signal and panicking? does feel like ignition, reeks...

Yeah it idles pretty much perfect.

just dug haynes out so going to check resistance shortly.

Reset ecu and took it for a drive (sorted positive lead while there as well) no difference in the way it drives constant lack of power and spluttering like crazy from the exhaust. boost travels up fine though so cant see it being an issue there. wondering now if the maf is to blame or temp sensor. T...

Cheers for the reply yeah its at its worst when accelerating hard. boosts well though, its almost as if its hit a wall when it happens, very sluggish acceleration. checked the diagnostic box and came up with fault codes 1-4-2 and 3-1-4 but both sets of fault code lists i can find say different thing...

Hi haven't posted here much but need the help of the collective minds of the forum. i have a 93' turbo with an issue that is being a bugger to find. basically my car seems to lose power instantly when driving, often happens in the high rev range but sometimes low also. when accelerating the car will...

As you can probably imagine i'm new here. So for the past couple of years the 480 has been at the top of my wanted project car list and I finally got one 3 weeks ago. Already some family and friends have made the odd joke about me being 19 years old and having a Volvo 30 years too young but they all...