Tow truck needed hamilton to auckland for car

[skidMark]

My fathers car has crapped itself in hamilton we had a crack at fixing it tonight has fuel and spark but the injectors arn't activating so we suspect cooked computer...

anyway long story short its in hamilton and needs to be bought up to east auckland, and although my corona is mighty it isn't going to pull a 93 mitsi GTO behind it...

Anybody work for a towie that can do it tommorrow? or anybody know of a towie that wont charge through the ass? it's got business vehicle insurance and the insurance company have said they wont cover the tow or send out a roadside service vehicle (what the f**k)

anybody able to help/ point towards a good towie?

Skid :blank:

[tri boy]

Backload it on a car carrier that delivers imports from Akld to Ham.

[skidMark]

Backload it on a car carrier that delivers imports from Akld to Ham.


Bloodey good idea, but who do i call?

[jafar]

Bloodey good idea, but who do i call?

K & N in tahuna . Or Carr & Haslam in Mt Wellington for the car carrier.
I would suggest you get the car sorted in Hamilton rather than bring it back to Auckland, they do have mechanic's there that can fix it in the morning.

[Crazy Steve]

K & N in tahuna . Or Carr & Haslam in Mt Wellington for the car carrier.
I would suggest you get the car sorted in Hamilton rather than bring it back to Auckland, they do have mechanic's there that can fix it in the morning.

Or you could always try Jeffs....They like to charge massive amounts for fck all........

Crazy Steve.

[munterk6]

I would suggest you get the car sorted in Hamilton rather than bring it back to Auckland, they do have mechanic's there that can fix it in the morning.

Aww c'mon, that would be too easy....nah tow it :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[skidMark]

Its fucking weird regardless it drove there fine... parked it...30 min later he went back to it and it doesnt even try to start... has good spark... fuel pumps going and fuel to the injector rails, cams still turning to belt is fine.

wondering if somebody sprayed something up the exhaust or something...

[Disco Dan]

Its fucking weird regardless it drove there fine... parked it...30 min later he went back to it and it doesnt even try to start... has good spark... fuel pumps going and fuel to the injector rails, cams still turning to belt is fine.

wondering if somebody sprayed something up the exhaust or something...

Made sure it was in "park" :Pokey:

[skidMark]

Made sure it was in "park" :Pokey:


Pffft its twin turbo, its sacriledge for it to have a slush box! it's manual brow!

[jono035]

My fathers car has crapped itself in hamilton we had a crack at fixing it tonight has fuel and spark but the injectors arn't activating so we suspect cooked computer...

anyway long story short its in hamilton and needs to be bought up to east auckland, and although my corona is mighty it isn't going to pull a 93 mitsi GTO behind it...

Anybody work for a towie that can do it tommorrow? or anybody know of a towie that wont charge through the ass? it's got business vehicle insurance and the insurance company have said they wont cover the tow or send out a roadside service vehicle (what the f**k)

anybody able to help/ point towards a good towie?

Skid :blank:

Depending on the year of the car, the spark will be timed from the ECU so if its got spark then the ECU is probably all good.

Check the plugs into the ECU, remove and re-seat them. Check the fuses in the engine bay and cabin.

You're sure the fuel rail is coming up to pressure? There could be fuel in it but the pump is in the process of dying and can't hold high enough pressure?

[skidMark]

Depending on the year of the car, the spark will be timed from the ECU so if its got spark then the ECU is probably all good.

Check the plugs into the ECU, remove and re-seat them. Check the fuses in the engine bay and cabin.

You're sure the fuel rail is coming up to pressure? There could be fuel in it but the pump is in the process of dying and can't hold high enough pressure?

Checked all of that andstill couldnt get her to go, theres so much fuel pressure in the injectors that when we undid the end to check it and cranked it, fuel sprayed the side of the house 2 metres away so no worries there lol.

havn't unplugged the ecu and plugged it back in yet but have checked fuses in engine bay and driver foot well and all seem to be fine...

bah this is why i like bikes, cars are fukn complicated...and i'm nonner to smetermernuff.

[jono035]

Checked all of that andstill couldnt get her to go, theres so much fuel pressure in the injectors that when we undid the end to check it and cranked it, fuel sprayed the side of the house 2 metres away so no worries there lol.

havn't unplugged the ecu and plugged it back in yet but have checked fuses in engine bay and driver foot well and all seem to be fine...

bah this is why i like bikes, cars are fukn complicated...and i'm nonner to smetermernuff.

Sounds like the fuel pressure is all good, just nobody light a smoke :D

Is the coil driven from points or the ECU? Not that I'm really sure what this would tell you, if they're points then your ECU may be completely buggered, if they're from the ECU then it may only be partially buggered? <_<

[marty]

Ahh Mitsi's techno toy. Could be anything from a blown ECU fuse (which has blown for a reason) to simply the fuel pump failing. Good luck!

[Scouse]

My fathers car has crapped itself in hamilton we had a crack at fixing it tonight has fuel and spark but the injectors arn't activating so we suspect cooked computer...

anyway long story short its in hamilton and needs to be bought up to east auckland, and although my corona is mighty it isn't going to pull a 93 mitsi GTO behind it...

Anybody work for a towie that can do it tommorrow? or anybody know of a towie that wont charge through the ass? it's got business vehicle insurance and the insurance company have said they wont cover the tow or send out a roadside service vehicle (what the f**k)

anybody able to help/ point towards a good towie?

Skid :blank:Why cant your Dad sort his own car out? Is he as disfunctional as you?

[jafar]

Its fucking weird regardless it drove there fine... parked it...30 min later he went back to it and it doesnt even try to start... has good spark... fuel pumps going and fuel to the injector rails, cams still turning to belt is fine.

wondering if somebody sprayed something up the exhaust or something...

What ended up happening???:blank:

[roadracingoldfart]

Backload it on a car carrier that delivers imports from Akld to Ham.



No many of the normal car transport companies will take a dead car as they dont have a hoist , winch on the trucks so they cant get them on. They leave it to a flat bed or a hookie.

[skidMark]

Why cant your Dad sort his own car out? Is he as disfunctional as you?


It's sitting at my sisters place in hamilton he has very limited tools, once back in auckland he has a full equipped workshop at home to fix it in...

He knows whats hes doing, when you have built 2 motorkhana race cars from scratch, restored a vintage car and built a four wheel drive lamborghini countach replica powered by a twin turbo lexus v8...

then you are getting close.

until such time shut up.

attacking me is one thing...

watch what you say...

good day to you sir.

[Scouse]

attacking me is one thing...

watch what you say...

Or what..?

[ducatilover]

Temperamental gto huh? I would suggest checking the crank angle sensor and if your old man has a fully equipped workshop I would assume he has an oscilloscope to check the injector pule with. If all the fuses and plugs etc are fitting good then start testing the normal array of sensors, you say it's got pressure, it should have around 60psi fuel pressure. But I would think the crank/cam angle sensor may be giving you shit.
Good luck

[FROSTY]

Go down in the corona. Tow the car as far as Pokeno. Fairly flat not hard towing. Then get a towie to haul it up and over the bombays to Otara turn off. Dump it at the servo there and then tow behind corona rest ofg the way. cheapest way to do the job.

[The Stranger]

Its fucking weird regardless it drove there fine... parked it...30 min later he went back to it and it doesnt even try to start... has good spark... fuel pumps going and fuel to the injector rails, cams still turning to belt is fine.



Weird? no, It's a shitsubishi, that's pretty normal really.

[Disco Dan]

I reckon my mini could tow it...

Fark that would look funny... :headbang:

[marty]

If your old man is that clever and has that much experience to draw on, I am sure he can organise something as simple as getting a car home.

Or is he an attention seeker too? Come on skiddy - it's not really that hard to sort out - people do it every day without coming on here to live out their tragic failures ad nauesem..........

[davo]

I had a twin turb gto for a while as well, and had no end of problems with it when it was driven hard. Which was in all fairness way too often.

ECU's are common to go, I had to get mine recond by a fella on the shore (based out of his shed). Can't remember who now, but found the web page on google. The ISC went next after that, if memory servers.

Get a voltmeter and google mitsi gto (or 3000GT/Stealth or whatever the american name was) error codes, the plug is easily accessable and will atleast let you know if its a sensor or the ecu etc. For some reason I seem to remember dettaching the ECS can fix some problems as well (don't ask why the suspencion cpu would stop the whole car..)

If your determined to tow the whale instead of fix it, goodluck..

[skidMark]

If your old man is that clever and has that much experience to draw on, I am sure he can organise something as simple as getting a car home.

Or is he an attention seeker too? Come on skiddy - it's not really that hard to sort out - people do it every day without coming on here to live out their tragic failures ad nauesem..........

I was just trying to help him out, i posted the thread for some advice which i got.

Thankyou to those who helper out with suggestions etc and got some good answers to hopefully track down whats going on with the thing.

Put me off buying one for my next car. lol blimin mitsi's!

[jono035]

I had a twin turb gto for a while as well, and had no end of problems with it when it was driven hard. Which was in all fairness way too often.

ECU's are common to go, I had to get mine recond by a fella on the shore (based out of his shed). Can't remember who now, but found the web page on google. The ISC went next after that, if memory servers.

Get a voltmeter and google mitsi gto (or 3000GT/Stealth or whatever the american name was) error codes, the plug is easily accessable and will atleast let you know if its a sensor or the ecu etc. For some reason I seem to remember dettaching the ECS can fix some problems as well (don't ask why the suspencion cpu would stop the whole car..)

If your determined to tow the whale instead of fix it, goodluck..

Yeah actually, now that I think about it the ECUs in the mitsis of that age were a shocker. We were quoted $2k for an ECU replacement on a Diamante we had bought for about $4k. Had a Galant that we bought at auction and fixed up that we got told would be scrap if the ECU went... Thinking about it, when I was looking at a Legnum I got told the engines were prone to going to pieces all at once and the high-pressure fuel pumps were in the order of $1-2k if you could even get one? I can't think of a single other car manufacturer that I've had more than 1 shock like that from. Even when I thought the SRS controller was completely gone in my accord it was $500 for a wrecked one, $650 for a new one.

[skidMark]

ECU was fried, a computer who used to build race GTO's has it...they sent computer away for repair... they got it running but it was spluttering etc... then they have sucked one of the gaskets through the motor they think because they had some intake pipes off when they test drove it....

fucking bunnies :no:

hopefully sorted soon.

[Ixion]

I got a Mitsubishi. never had any problem at all with the ECU, or any electronics. Guarantee I never will, no matter how long.

[skidMark]

I got a Mitsubishi. never had any problem at all with the ECU, or any electronics. Guarantee I never will, no matter how long.


Dehumidifiers don't count....:laugh: