Engine Runs Fuel Thirsty Rough At Times An Smells Of Petrol

[Guest summers]

Hi, I have a Berlingo 1.4 petrol, and it's suddenly started playing up, every couple of days it's hard to start up, and runs rough for a few minutes afterwards, and smells really strongly of petrol, also it chucks black smoke from the exhaust for a couple of minutes, then all of a sudden its Ok, its become quite heavy on fuel. any suggestion would be appreciated, best wishes and a happy new year, from Chris Summers

[downsman]

Hi, I have a Berlingo 1.4 petrol, and it's suddenly started playing up, every couple of days it's hard to start up, and runs rough for a few minutes afterwards, and smells really strongly of petrol, also it chucks black smoke from the exhaust for a couple of minutes, then all of a sudden its Ok, its become quite heavy on fuel. any suggestion would be appreciated, best wishes and a happy new year, from Chris Summers

 

Probably a bit late for this, but our old Berlingo had similar problems, and it was the HT leads connection corroding.