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08-10-2007, 03:19 PM
As some of you know, I've been having a bit of trouble. Rewind the story a little here...
Ever since I got the GDI I've had what is apparently a slight misfire - juddering "lumpy" pulling at low revs and light throttle from cold, occasional slight miss when warm...
On friday morning, prior to a weekend of driving to/from japshow, I got a very bad misfire and then pulling out of a roundabout it didn't pull properly. Then the engine light came on. I limped the car home in the afternoon, and plugged in the computer.
Code P0304 - cylinder 4 misfire. After reading this thread (http://www.mitsubishi-forums.com/t11379-2000-mitsubishi-chariot-24-gdi.htm), I decided to have a go at wrapping the top part of the coil, where it sits on top of the inlet manifold, in insulation tape.
Apparently this worked, and I was able to drive to K's, then on to japshow and back again without incident, and with the engine apparently being smoother at low revs than it ever had been. However, I'm still not sure it's right, which suggests that the fix is not perfect, or other cylinders are affected or both.
Obviously the ideal solution is to replace the coil packs, so I've been doing a bit of phoning around to look into that. There don't seem to be any third party parts for this, not even from the likes of ADL blueprint etc. Japarts said that they could only get them from mitsubishi and it would be the same as dealer price. And what a price! £117 + VAT. Each. That's £550 for the set!
So... anyone know where there's a spacewagon or galant GDI that got rear ended as it was driven out of the dealership?
Ever since I got the GDI I've had what is apparently a slight misfire - juddering "lumpy" pulling at low revs and light throttle from cold, occasional slight miss when warm...
On friday morning, prior to a weekend of driving to/from japshow, I got a very bad misfire and then pulling out of a roundabout it didn't pull properly. Then the engine light came on. I limped the car home in the afternoon, and plugged in the computer.
Code P0304 - cylinder 4 misfire. After reading this thread (http://www.mitsubishi-forums.com/t11379-2000-mitsubishi-chariot-24-gdi.htm), I decided to have a go at wrapping the top part of the coil, where it sits on top of the inlet manifold, in insulation tape.
Apparently this worked, and I was able to drive to K's, then on to japshow and back again without incident, and with the engine apparently being smoother at low revs than it ever had been. However, I'm still not sure it's right, which suggests that the fix is not perfect, or other cylinders are affected or both.
Obviously the ideal solution is to replace the coil packs, so I've been doing a bit of phoning around to look into that. There don't seem to be any third party parts for this, not even from the likes of ADL blueprint etc. Japarts said that they could only get them from mitsubishi and it would be the same as dealer price. And what a price! £117 + VAT. Each. That's £550 for the set!
So... anyone know where there's a spacewagon or galant GDI that got rear ended as it was driven out of the dealership?