Hi all, just signed up here hopefully some of you can help me. My car is an 02 plate 2.5 Estate Ghia X, 90,000 miles. I've only had the car around a month and sometimes the engine will just cut out while idling, this is usually while waiting at traffic lights or junctions, it doesn't always happen but it happens enough for me to be worried about it, thankfully it hasn't happened while moving (yet).
Oh also before it cuts out it there's a weird noise from the engine area, it kinda sounds like someone blowing a low pitch flute for a few seconds, everytime I hear this noise it will cut out after the noise finishes. Sometimes while idling the engine feels kinda lumpy, don't really know how best to describe it but you can sort of feel it maybe juddering a bit.
If anyone can help me out with this it would be much appreciated, I don't really know much about engines and such but would like to get an idea what it could be and the potential costs to fix it?
Oh also before it cuts out it there's a weird noise from the engine area, it kinda sounds like someone blowing a low pitch flute for a few seconds, everytime I hear this noise it will cut out after the noise finishes. Sometimes while idling the engine feels kinda lumpy, don't really know how best to describe it but you can sort of feel it maybe juddering a bit.
If anyone can help me out with this it would be much appreciated, I don't really know much about engines and such but would like to get an idea what it could be and the potential costs to fix it?