Yep a none starter

Hi there to those of you guys that might be able to help me:banghead:,went to start my 98' cabrio one morning over a week ago and she was just turning over...

I checked all Ht leads and so on,removed a plug and it was soaked in Fuel,then tested the Coil and there is no power feeding to the Coil(rules out dead Coil):screwy:...

I then decided to remove the battery wire,now i have alarm issues,i have read the little tips and tricks as regards the alarm on here so thats not a problem.

Right i have now changed the Ecm relay(no30),i have also fitted an Ignition Switch to my horror that didn't help,any help would be much appreciated,i have only owned the car for 2 weeks and im already regreting it bigtime~!

I have a Mk1 cabrio and damn ive never had nowhere near this amount of trouble,thought a Mk3 was a wise move... man was i wrong:screwy::shakehead

Right quick update,have gained in progress(thanks too this forum,where others have failed miserably).

I have now got power to the coil and have got round the immob and alarm waho0o0o,the car now starts but its running real bad,as if its running on 3 cylinders...and sound very tappety is this limp mode??

I'm guessing its something like that.will i need to get any codes removed to return the car back to normal running?,the car had no missfiring or tappet noise before i had the mentioned problems in my previous thread...

how you get it started?

Its prob running very rich from cranking and no start. I would reccomend replacing the distributor cap and rotor. Also clean out the intake and maf sensor with intake cleaner.

how you get it started?

Its prob running very rich from cranking and no start. I would reccomend replacing the distributor cap and rotor. Also clean out the intake and maf sensor with intake cleaner.

Hi thanks for the reply should of updated sooner.

I noticed while it was running poorly that there was a ticking noise coming from the distributor cap,so i changed that and the rotor arm and all is well...

I previously had a low idle and accausional stall at junctions so i cleaned the throttle body out and Maf sensor prior to getting it started,so everything is great for now...

Now all i have to do is fix the damn vaccum joint i broke on the power locking pump so that my Fuel flap with unlock and then Fuel her up :naughty: