On my travels the other day I was sent to a low mileage G plate 1.4 345 that had developed a serious misfire.
The owner of the car told me that his garage had had a look at it and cleaned out the carb. He informed me that it was definitely a fuel blockage (if these people know so much about their bloody cars then why call us?

I fired it up and immediately identified it as an ignition problem (with the owner still mumbling something about fuel).
I took the cap off- remember this car was just about running- and found...........
you're not going to believe this..............
you know what a 340 rotor arm should look like don't you?
shouldn't really look like this then!

Eek!
I soon had it running fine after a visit to a parts shop and sent the guy on his way very unhappy with the garage that had just given his car a full service!
