Biskit

Hi everyone,

I've had an interesting development since my last reply earlier this morning. While driving it this morning and having all the usual problems with loss of power, the "engine management system failure" light came on, followed by absolutely tons of black smoke from the exhaust. So bad I couldn't see the cars behind me. Maybe I'd killed them all?!
Anyway, the car continued with it's loss of power and plumes of black smoke until I reached my destination. Wickes. I was in there for about 15 minutes, came out, started the car and the engine warning light stayed on. Loss of power at first, but by the time I'd got out of the car park it was running sweet as anything, still with the warning light on, but no more smoke (that I could see anyway). My next journey to the gym took about 10 minutes. About 1.5 hours later I drove home. Engine warning light still on. No smoke. I could sware while I was in the gym someone swapped the 1.9 for the 2.4 engine. It felt so fast! Only once on the way home while I was doing 70(ish) in 6th did it loose power again. Dropped it in to 4th, got the power back and it was ok again for the rest of the journey home. So good in fact that the normal slight dip in power just after you floor it in first doesn't happen either, it just wheel spins till it picks up grip then continues to rocket along. Warning light still on.

Does that give anyone any clues to the problem? If it was a faulty injector like the garage think then surely it wouldn't tonk along quite so well now? I'm sure it's faster and smoother now that it was at new!