Hello there,
I've just bought a 2001, 1.0 litre Micra S (I think this makes it a K11?)
It has just developed a fault on my first day of using it. It does not tickover very smoothly and the idle speed seems eratic sometimes increase and sometimes just dies. When approaching junctions the engine often dies between gear changes. Pulling away is tricky since the engine stalls very easily. It seems to die just as it comes off idle and you feed in the load on the clutch. This means I have to rev it like a learner when I pull away.
It did not have this fault when I test drove it ( for 20mins) which is weird. The fault may have appeared after I removed the air filter cover to look at the air filter. (Although I can't see this causing any fault). This morning on the way to work the "engine" warning light on the instrument panel came on (orange light shaped like an engine block icon) and has stayed on.
I relaced the plugs tonight and the old ones were very sooty all over. Put new ones in and they were the same after a quick spin (3mins, maybe not enough to really get hot?) They were totally black all over.
I had a quick look at a Haynes manual in Halfords today. It said that there is no way to get error codes on a post-2000 model and only a Nissan garage can do this. Bummer! Is this true?
My car has some kind of coil pack on each cylinder, above the plugs.
I am really gutted and worried I have bought a lemon and I have no money to spend in a Nissan dealer. I'm planning to disconnect the battery tomorrow to see if I can make the warning light go away but that still leaves the poor tickover and sooty plugs.
Any suggestions as to where to start looking for faults would be welcome?
(Sorry, I know this topic has been raised before but some of the advice seems contradictory or may be for different engines to mine?)
I've just bought a 2001, 1.0 litre Micra S (I think this makes it a K11?)
It has just developed a fault on my first day of using it. It does not tickover very smoothly and the idle speed seems eratic sometimes increase and sometimes just dies. When approaching junctions the engine often dies between gear changes. Pulling away is tricky since the engine stalls very easily. It seems to die just as it comes off idle and you feed in the load on the clutch. This means I have to rev it like a learner when I pull away.
It did not have this fault when I test drove it ( for 20mins) which is weird. The fault may have appeared after I removed the air filter cover to look at the air filter. (Although I can't see this causing any fault). This morning on the way to work the "engine" warning light on the instrument panel came on (orange light shaped like an engine block icon) and has stayed on.
I relaced the plugs tonight and the old ones were very sooty all over. Put new ones in and they were the same after a quick spin (3mins, maybe not enough to really get hot?) They were totally black all over.
I had a quick look at a Haynes manual in Halfords today. It said that there is no way to get error codes on a post-2000 model and only a Nissan garage can do this. Bummer! Is this true?
My car has some kind of coil pack on each cylinder, above the plugs.
I am really gutted and worried I have bought a lemon and I have no money to spend in a Nissan dealer. I'm planning to disconnect the battery tomorrow to see if I can make the warning light go away but that still leaves the poor tickover and sooty plugs.
Any suggestions as to where to start looking for faults would be welcome?
(Sorry, I know this topic has been raised before but some of the advice seems contradictory or may be for different engines to mine?)