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M35 rough idle / shudder

Hi,

I've recenly had problems with the car and would like to know if it sounds familiar.

Symtoms :

- Rough idle : the car does not stall but you can definitely feel a  shudder 

- Shudder also present when driving, especially around 2000-2500 rpm

Coming from the engine 100%, it is less noticeable once the turbo kicks in but there is a slight power loss too. 

Problem has increased in intensity when I was driving it home.

If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Mechanical skills close to null, if someone around Sydney is keen to have a look at it, I'd obviously pay for your time, but I can of course try a few things on my end too.

Cheers!

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24 minutes ago, valf said:

M35 rough idle / shudder

Hi,

I've recenly had problems with the car and would like to know if it sounds familiar.

Symtoms :

- Rough idle : the car does not stall but you can definitely feel a  shudder 

- Shudder also present when driving, especially around 2000-2500 rpm

Coming from the engine 100%, it is less noticeable once the turbo kicks in but there is a slight power loss too. 

Problem has increased in intensity when I was driving it home.

If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Mechanical skills close to null, if someone around Sydney is keen to have a look at it, I'd obviously pay for your time, but I can of course try a few things on my end too.

Cheers!

Contact m35stagea on this forum, he can help scan your car for fault codes.

 

1 minute ago, West said:

Contact m35stagea on this forum, he can help scan your car for fault codes.

 

Ok, will do thanks!

One more thing is that there is no lights on on the dash. No engine light nothing. Not sure if the diag will show something if engine light isn't even coming up :/

1 minute ago, valf said:

Ok, will do thanks!

One more thing is that there is no lights on on the dash. No engine light nothing. Not sure if the diag will show something if engine light isn't even coming up :/

Not sure but no hurt trying right? 

This guy also know a fair bit about M35, or Scotty on this forum as well but since you're in Sydney and m35stagea is also in sydney.

On 22/07/2017 at 5:54 PM, valf said:

Do you have a link for the oem coil packs / spark plugs? 

I'll change those and head over to m35stagea's place to give the car a scan. 

Thanks for the help! 

OEM are like $850. I got my NGK ones from Veales for $600. Spark plugs you can get from Super cheap for $120

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Finally received the coil packs yesterday,

Started changing it today, went quite well on the passenger side (remember, I've close to no mechanical experience).

I don't know where to start on the driver side though because the middle coil is hardly accessible.

Can someone tell me how to proceed ?

On the bright side, I've started the car and it runs perfect so I got lucky, the faulty one was one of the first 3 I swapped :)

All done, thanks everyone! Glad I did it myself, will go to bed less stupid than I was when I woke up [emoji4]

Give yourself a pat on the back. Great to see people having a go. DIY is the way to go for most of these minor little odd jobs[emoji106]
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