another thought. when you last filled up your car did you put premium unleaded in your car?? And when the mechanic had it did the car have unleaded in it?

nah ive been using either v-power or bp ultimate for the last month also.. jsut to help burn the other crappy petrol, when he had the car, my low petrol light was on.. another thing, it was idling at jsut over 400rpm the day it was stalling.. usually its up round 900.. wats it supposed to idle at?

around 750 rpm is normal i believe

ill take a small audio clip of how it sounds from the exhaust tomorrow. might help to hear it

comp test is easy buy a cheapy from supercheap cost like 15 bucks does teh job fine take a plug out at a time and crank it over with the coil disconnected usually you get hard cranking from either a battery issue or since u've said its been running rough it may be water in the cylinders, what happens is if the gasket blows it pressurisings the water system and when u switch it off it fills the clinder up with water, its only a small amount but enough to either slow or prevent the car from cranking. Also if you pressure test it you can move away from engine issues.

argh... i hope its not a gasket.. dont need to put more money into it.. what do i actually test?

compression

haha silly question, my mate knows what ur talkin about so i guess we'll give it a go.. cheers

it tests the psi a cylinder car approximately produce under no load, should be around 120ish headgaskets cost **** all to fix man set you back 400 max if you can be ****ed doing the work yourself

ok thanks, cheers for the help mate!

hey man, was your car an original turbo or converted. and if you were told it was a turbo from factroy, check to be sure. plates in bay. cos as you replied to my thread, i said in that that mine is exacltly like yours. and i fixed mine for the time being, with the na ecu. still have to take it to specialist shop to look at.