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I have just bought a second hand December 97 ELK XR6. The car is in excellent condition with approximately 64,000 km's on the clock.
Since purchase, a month ago i have had a consistent problem with the idle.
It seems to be rough at all temperatures but especially at operating temperature.
My local Ford dealer, Brad Garlick in Sydney, said that this rough idle was a characteristic of the Tickford engine in the XR6 because it has a lumpy cam.
I went away and had the spark plugs,air filter distributer cap and ignition leads replaced.
I also took it to a company in granville called Paratune to have the car tuned, the engine management system checked and that injectors cleaned. Nothing improved the rough idle problem.
I took the car back and asked Paratune to check the engine. They did a compression test and a leak test, they tested the CO2 and mixtures etc. The engine seems to be in excellent condition.The car accelerates well and is nice to drive
Paratune agree it's running rough but have no idea why. Because I do not know mnuch about these cars, I was wondering whether these cars do run characteristically rough and thought that someone here might be able to tell me or point me in the right direction in terms of solving the problem.
Brad Garlick, the dealer has not been much help. I was wondering whether I should call Tickford themselves and see if I can not get a technical person to have a look at the car.
Hopefully, someone here has the answer. I'm getting really frustrated because my car warrenty runs out soon and if it is an engibe problem I will not be covered. At this point I cannot identify a tuning or an engine problem and I am at a loss as to what to do!
HELP!!!!!
Since purchase, a month ago i have had a consistent problem with the idle.
It seems to be rough at all temperatures but especially at operating temperature.
My local Ford dealer, Brad Garlick in Sydney, said that this rough idle was a characteristic of the Tickford engine in the XR6 because it has a lumpy cam.
I went away and had the spark plugs,air filter distributer cap and ignition leads replaced.
I also took it to a company in granville called Paratune to have the car tuned, the engine management system checked and that injectors cleaned. Nothing improved the rough idle problem.
I took the car back and asked Paratune to check the engine. They did a compression test and a leak test, they tested the CO2 and mixtures etc. The engine seems to be in excellent condition.The car accelerates well and is nice to drive
Paratune agree it's running rough but have no idea why. Because I do not know mnuch about these cars, I was wondering whether these cars do run characteristically rough and thought that someone here might be able to tell me or point me in the right direction in terms of solving the problem.
Brad Garlick, the dealer has not been much help. I was wondering whether I should call Tickford themselves and see if I can not get a technical person to have a look at the car.
Hopefully, someone here has the answer. I'm getting really frustrated because my car warrenty runs out soon and if it is an engibe problem I will not be covered. At this point I cannot identify a tuning or an engine problem and I am at a loss as to what to do!
HELP!!!!!