I thought I had beaten the damn miss last year, when I put ring tails on the wires on the coil. The thing behaved perfectly ever since.
With a lot of wet weather the 7 has sat for a couple/few weeks at a time, without use this year. After a fair spell I used it a couple of weeks back. It gave a couple of that sort of hesitation, half miss a couple of times in the first couple of kilometers, then ran perfectly. I thought it may have partially flooded before cleaning up.
It sat until yesterday, & let me know it was not pleased being ignored. It started & ran perfectly, but coughed about 3 times in the couple of kilometers getting to the main road. Once there it happily accelerated to 100Km/H, then cut dead, rev counter on zero, for about 10 seconds. It came back to life with a backfire out the exhaust.
It was just up to full temperature a kilometer or so later, when it cut dead again, this time for about 15 seconds. It came back to life again with a bang, & I noticed the radio had kept playing, so it is not total power loss.
I was about to go home, but decided to keep going, hoping the thing would stop permanently, so the problem could be traced. I dropped it into third, & revved it out hard through the gears, then drove on normally.
The damn thing did 100 kilometers or so then, & another 70 kilometers today, behaving perfectly.
I assume there is a poor connection, or earth somewhere, & it does appear to be only when the thing is cold, & only on light throttle openings.
God I wish it would break down properly, so I could find & fix the thing, it almost feels like the car is rousing on me for not using it enough, & I'm too damn old to be treated like a naughty little boy, by a car.
Hasbeen
