You may want to catch up on previous episodes:
Ten year Anniversary
Eleven year Anniversary
Twelve year Anniversary
The thirteenth year they say is lace
It has been remiss of me not to provide my annual updates but life is still full of frustrations with the F355.
If you recall, I have been having intermittent ‘chugging’ issues particularly after refuelling. The car has been looked at by a variety of people, unfortunately to no avail. Of late the issue has reappeared but then today after refuelling and stopping the car to park it, the ‘chuggs’ returned.
At the moment I don’t dare take the car somewhere and then stop it. Typically, I’m taking it out regularly on the same run every time. Hopefully by doing so I might be able to see a pattern. After the run I park the car up.
Prior to today, the last time I got the full on ‘chuggs’ was back in April, about 6 months ago. This is what makes troubleshooting the issue so hard, the simple irregularity of it. I did however notice today that there was a lot of air ‘sucking’ when I removed the fuel cap which is somewhat unusual for that amount.
My plan therefore is simply to keep driving the car and recording all the details, then at the annual service have the fuel pump swapped as the next attempt to isolate the issue. Given that I am not stopping the car any except back at base or the local petrol station, I can live with that until the next major service due in a few months.
The car also has a bit of an oil leak I think that needs attention, plus the drivers seat is exhibiting wear near where the brake handle is pulled up. Thus, there will be a few things that need to be taken car of along with the registration.
It is disappointing that car is still getting random ‘chuggs’ but they are less than they were prior to the injectors being cleaned and it is something I can live with for the time being until the car gets serviced. It is frustrating not to be able to take the car out on club drives because I’m afraid it’ll get the ‘chuggs’ again after stopping and starting.
For now, I can still enjoy driving the car but the ‘chuggs’ remain an enigma that returns everty now and then to ruin things. All I can do is keep replacing parts until the issue, is hopefully, found. Thus, unfortunately, another year of frustrations with an ongoing issue that can’t seemed to be resolved.
Love the F355 