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Hello, I am a male of the species and 63, took early retirement from my job as Engineering Manager at Colgate Palmolive in Trafford Park as the powers that be decided to build a new plant in Poland and close Salford, since I had been there for 30 years it was a good move so in 2008 I retired.

What should I do now, so I decided last month to get a little run about and looked at the MX5 but I couldn't safely drive it being 6ft 3inches, I then came across an MG TF hoard at a garage in Mossley called FatPhil's, he must have 12 F's & TF's, superb chap to deal with and good stock as well, I drove one of his and was hooked, so hey presto bought one, as below.

I have recently purchased a 2003 MG TF 1.8, 57K on the clock pretty much FSH and lots of bills. So being the cautious type and following the mantra, "prevention is better than cure", I have had a full service including oil, coolant and brake fluid change, filters and belts changed and st steel pipes underneath, then a check on suspension brakes and generally check the car out, all was well.

So far so good, then when it was ready I left the garage and drove away, 2 miles down the road run out of petrol, added 5 liters and tried to start it, it started at first but when I tried to rev it died and continued doing this until it wouldn't start at all, nothing dead, so it got towed back to the garage and am now awaiting results.

I generally think that it is the fuel filter because of the dirt it probably brought up from an empty tank, but lets see.

Any further ideas would be welcome.

I also run a BMW 520d SE auto, just because I am fanatical about reliability and this ticks the boxes.

BigPhil.

sounds a reasonable assumption and would be my first stop , however the pump has a mesh sock over it so should really filter the worst ,

I'd be tempted to stick another 5 litres in it and see what happens , but it wont hurt to change the fuel filter anyway , oh and you could check the fuel pump fuse , maybe its tripped out from running too fast with no juice to pump ? oh and check all vac hoses are in place ,

when mrs coupe recewntly ran out of fuel the resulting back fire blew a vac hose out of the throttle body meaning it would only idle at 3k revs

Thanks for your advice, yes we did put another 10 liters in but it made no difference, could hear the pump ticking on ignition, but it's now with the mech and I wouldn't want to try to advise him as me an amateur and he the professional.

BigPhil.

hello and welcome Phil

seeing as your car is in the garage i Will resist to demand photos

There is also a fuel cutoff switch near the fuel filter, it could be worth checking that, if it won't fire up.

at the moment only got the photo thats on my page, but as soon as I get it home I will post a few more.

to the forum BigPhil....look forward to the pictures...

Did my advise help

Look forward to seeing the photos later, although you had better watch out for Tracy

aboard Phil and thanks for saying 'thanks' here.

welcome Phil

Hi Phil and

Ive only been on here a few weeks and I'm having a great time

Welcome Phil,

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