belfastfly Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Morning all,So yesterday was a pretty bad experience - stopped at the station to top up on diesel. When filling up the fan was cooling down the engine (lots of noise and lots of threads on here about it). I then started the engine and drove away (no choice, people were waiting). After about 20 seconds the engine started jumping and losing power. I couldn't reach 30 mph and almost went totally dead going up a hill! Questiin is, was it the fan causing this or something else? Engine has less than 10k miles on it Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee_82 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 could be absolutely anything. need some codes! fan could be a red herring or it could be something electrical or something to do with the temperature.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastfly Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 could be absolutely anything. need some codes! fan could be a red herring or it could be something electrical or something to do with the temperature....I'm going to take it in for a check up. Could have been dodgy diesel (i was across the border in another country when I filled up). Hopefully it's nothing more seriousSent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypsp Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 3 hours ago, belfastfly said: Could have been dodgy diesel lets hope you never filled up with petrol 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjt Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 hours ago, andypsp said: lets hope you never filled up with petrol That was my first thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastfly Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 Lol don't worry, it's the one think I know isn't the cause ;) That was my first thought.Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjt Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 That's good. It was just that your description absolutely fitted the symptoms of accidentally putting petrol in. 🙂 I wonder if there was some water in the diesel you used to top up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee_82 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 that doesn't mean some plonker didn't put petrol in the diesel tanks at the pumps. Seen that happen a couple of times around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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