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I just came across this page again after all this time. I fixed it! It was the coil.

SOHC.

Need to change the Rear Discs on my 2.0GLi. Get bad vibration through the car when braking. No shaking at the wheel. Adjusted the rear wheel bearings and had all the wheels balanced and it improved - a bit. So, looks like the rear discs may be warped. I've never changed them so they may as well be d...

MOT Passed! Broken front spring , blowing front box, stripped threads on CV joint on removal and a struggle to get through emissions test. But it go there! And it has now been running for four or five hours. I guess the ignition coil was the problem after all. One to note for anyone who may have the...

I gave up and bought a new one. Fitted it today and have had two thirty minute sessions of running happily in my driveway. Promising, but I'm not counting my chickens just yet.

Anyone know how to test these coils with a meter? Haynes is not terribly helpful.

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OK, so after a little hiatus I got to look at the Cavalier again. Started car and it ran, revved and idled for a good ten minutes or more. Got nice and warm, and then stopped. It started again without a lot of grief and ran for five monutes or so, then stopped. It took a little more effort, three or...

Thanks. I'll get one ordered up and get it changed and see where that leaves me. Hopefully with a working car!

Crank Sensor it is then. I can get one for £10.80. Dumb question. Where is it located? (I know it will be somewhere around the crankcase. )

So, ran the car again today and moved it , just around the drive. Car conked out when moving. Three goes to start it again. First two times I could tell it was trying to fire, unlike before when it just churned. Third time it fired and I noticed that for the first time I can remember the Engine Mana...

Changed the rotor arm today. simply as I had a new one lying on the shelf - as you do - and have never changed it. Fired up car and it idled away and after 5 to 10 minutes, it stopped. Fired straight back up and then continued to idle away and be revved through to the cooling fan kicking in three ti...

Yep, chunters away but doesn't fire.

I had thought of that as a possibility. So I have ordered up a fuel relay to try. It was only £7. So I feel it's worth a punt.

Dare I say, the engine? Heavy stench of fuel when cranking the engine but not firing.

Greig, Snowy,

Yes, fuel pump or relay was the first of my thoughts. However, when it stopped the second time and I had back in my driveway and tried to start it, it was very smelly of fuel. I didn't think this would be the case with a knackered pump/relay. Or am i wrong?

Still got all the dash lights for ignition on. Cranks over fine and smells of fuel. I had a Skoda Favorit that did the same thing and it too was an ignition wire that was coming loose. Took the gubbins off around the switch and loosened the ignition and the wire fell off. Helped with fault finding! ...

Hmmmm, good thinking. I shall have a look at that. No, no recent electrical work. Been very reliable. Fuel filter and a leaking fuel hose has been the sum total of recent work.

My Cavalier 2.0GLi has started to randomly stop running. Some history. Driving home form work I felt a couple of very slight hiccups before having driven nearly 20 miles I lifted off the gas for a roundabout and the engine died. No warning lights had come on until the engine stopped running. The car...