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<blockquote data-quote="tommod" data-source="post: 414370" data-attributes="member: 9949"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I have owned a K11 1.0 1995 N Reg Micra for 2 and a half years. It's been a great car, very reliable first-time starter, until it had problems staring after damp weather about a year ago. The problem got worse and worse until it had to be kept in our garage every night to be sure of it starting in the morning. It eventually had a service, and I think having the distributor cleaned up solved the problem.</p><p></p><p>After the service it was starting every morning and was no longer being kept in the garage overnight. I drove to my parent house last weekend however, and it was terribly wet during the night. The car did not start in the morning. Took it to garage that did the service, they got it started (usually a bump start would do the trick to get it going again, and once going it would start every time, but wanted the garage to look at it while it wasn't starting). The guy at the garage said the distributor had a low spark, that Micra's of this age often have distributor problems. He advised I get a new distributor put in.</p><p></p><p>Took car home and covered engine every night and it started every day this week until this morning (it was very wet again last night).</p><p></p><p>My questions are:</p><p> - Has anyone else had a similar distributor problem?</p><p> - Why would one very wet night 1 week ago, cause the old problem to return?</p><p> - If getting a new distributor is in fact the only option, how much should I expect to pay, roughly, with labour included?</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p></p><p>tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tommod, post: 414370, member: 9949"] Hi, I have owned a K11 1.0 1995 N Reg Micra for 2 and a half years. It's been a great car, very reliable first-time starter, until it had problems staring after damp weather about a year ago. The problem got worse and worse until it had to be kept in our garage every night to be sure of it starting in the morning. It eventually had a service, and I think having the distributor cleaned up solved the problem. After the service it was starting every morning and was no longer being kept in the garage overnight. I drove to my parent house last weekend however, and it was terribly wet during the night. The car did not start in the morning. Took it to garage that did the service, they got it started (usually a bump start would do the trick to get it going again, and once going it would start every time, but wanted the garage to look at it while it wasn't starting). The guy at the garage said the distributor had a low spark, that Micra's of this age often have distributor problems. He advised I get a new distributor put in. Took car home and covered engine every night and it started every day this week until this morning (it was very wet again last night). My questions are: - Has anyone else had a similar distributor problem? - Why would one very wet night 1 week ago, cause the old problem to return? - If getting a new distributor is in fact the only option, how much should I expect to pay, roughly, with labour included? Thanks, tom [/QUOTE]
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