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I know what i'm talking about here.

Have you considered replacing the Fuel ECU?

This really sounds like Fuel ECU failure from many other experiences with your motor.

Cost 200 quid or 2nd-hand maybe less than 100. I can point in general direction if you ned help sourcing cheap.

To diagnose before spending cash, you need to bridge the fuel ECU out at the diagnostic port.

Where are you at? where is the car and who's got it in for work?

next quick test if you have bad starting from cold but good from warm

get under the bonnet and pull the EFI fuse

Turn the engine over for about 10 seconds with the fuse out and no throttle

This cleans all the cylinders of fuel as the EFI fuse out "turns off" the fuel injectors

Ignition off and nip around the front and put your EFI fuse back in

quickly try and start the engine

If it starts easy and runs ok then you have a fuel management problem, the brains are probably trying to cold start or overfuel from cold

Most probable cause is the Engine temperature sensor reading that you are in the antarctic and throwing fuel in by the bucketfull, once warm this cause usually dissapears

This is what happened to me, do not get confused with the radiator coolant temperature sensor, the engine temperature sensor is a different thing, and a quick cheap fix if that is the problem

Well I disconnected both EFI fuses, There was a round fuse and a 20 amp fuse that were labeled EFI. It started, it would still die. The rpms jumping up and down.

Had erratic rpm on our car,so I took it to the main stealership ,sorry dealership who new bugger all about this model.they could not sort it.£815 poorer .Right ,what I did was loosen the pozidrive screws on the throttle body sensor( small round black thing with a multi socket on it)on the intake body , and once you have undone the screws move the sensor by about 1 mm.and retighten the screws.start the engine for a millisecond then turn it off.

repeat this ten times. This re educates the cold start settings. you should then have a fast idle setting around 1800rpm.

If you have an even fast idle then as the engine warms it should automatically set the hot running speed.

hope it works for you as it cured ours.

P.s. Main dealerships appear to employ technicians and not proper mechanics.I have the bills to prove it.Good luck

Also try Cataclean in your fuel it is brilliant :