Hi, I am currently looking at a Corsa C 1.2 Twin port. The vehicle starts and runs fine for about 20 seconds then the eng man light starts to flash and the engine misfires.
Fault codes stored are P0300 Random / Multiple misfire, P0301 Misfire Cylinder 1 and P0304 Misfire Cylinder 4. Switch the ignition off, restart the vehicle and it runs fine again for about 20 seconds then the fault reoccurs.
On my initial look, I attached a vacuum gauge to the inlet manifold which displayed good vacuum with a steady needle so the engine mechanically seems good.
I decided to look at the ignition primary voltage and current and injector voltage and current, it was obvious that their was no command form the ECU or current for injectors 1 + 4, then I remembered that the ECU can turn these off when a misfire is detected . Ignition off then restart the engine all 4 injector command and current are visible, engine seems to run fine, no misfire that I can notice then injectors 1 + 4 are turned off and a misfire is obvious. It looks like the ECU is detecting a misfire then turning off the injectors for the relevant cylinders.
On returning to the vehicle the following day looking again at ignition primary their were 2 and sometimes 3 saturation events for each cycle. This looked very odd to me, zooming in on the first event I noticed a very brief high spark line voltage, I removed the plugs, they were worn out so I replaced them and the spark line voltage lowered but still had more that one saturation period. After quite a while this did return back to one event.
I am wondering if the captures show a fault to a more experienced eye, if anyone can explain what is happening in the captures and may be suggest some further tests to try get to the bottom of this fault. I was considering looking at fuel quality next before doing too much more, thank you for your time, kind regards, Andy
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