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In the eighteen months or so I `ve been around this board, I`ve heard of three instances of this misfire, plus it happened to me too.
The usual suspect is washing the car, most often with a pressure hose, when water seems to have a problem draining away in quantity from the windshield and windscreen wiper areas. It overflows or just plain spashes on the underside of the bonnet (hood) then finds its way to the cylinder 1 spark plug.
Then, misfire until evaporation and heat gets rid of it, or it is cleaned out. This is best done by removing the HT cable plug thing, then poking a absorbant rag (not tissue) down there with a thin wooden or plastic stick, remembering to hold the other end of the rag. Wood or plastic won`t damage the spark plug.
Don`t undo the spark plug with the spark plug removal tool, as all the water plus any contaminants will just drain into cylinder one, which is not the best way to remove them via the exhaust !!
Also, any really careless splashing around of coolant will have the same effect, but I see no easy way to do that "by accident".
However, if they hosed any spilt coolant from the engine with the bonnet open using a hose, there`s the cause !!
Hope this helps.
Ivan.
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Last edited by IvanDias; 6th August 2003 at 19:42.
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