Dan14 0 Posted October 30, 2019 Hi I'm new her first post and hoping I could get some help/advice before I go see the dreaded mechanic took a risk and bought a cheap 2007 1.8 diesel smax couple of days ago from a site I work on its just used to drive the hi ups around site so not to get there nice cars dirty anyway I know the car has been run on red diesel so takes the car home puts £30 normal diesel in and is fine drives great the next morning starts and drives fine most of the day coming home in the evening feels like the car misfires a bit tiny loss of power, then this morning car struggles to start when it does start cuts out after a couple of seconds then tried a few times to bump start that works but loads of black smoke comes out to the point of leaving a large black mark on the road,today it had randomly cut out while driving and once while idling after a short drive other times starts no problem and drives fine any ideas guys I just dont want the old try every option in the garage because the car is cheap and not worth the trouble Thanks Dan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan14 0 Posted November 2, 2019 Well as helpful as this post has been I've joined another forum for advice Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wkfd1 0 Posted December 7, 2019 On 11/2/2019 at 9:13 PM, Dan14 said: Well as helpful as this post has been I've joined another forum for advice What did find the problem was Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
