Hi guys I have a 1995 silver N/A GTO, first question what category do I post in for technical issues?
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Hi Rob
Welcome to the club. There is a technical section with sub categories for various areas but you need to be a full member to see them. First things first get some pics up and some details about your car!
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Welcome to the club 
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Hi Robbie
Welcome to the club.
As @maxxbradley Has said really 
Memberships cheap and well worth it, for the advice, friendship and even if you make it club meets we pay for your food and drink etc
Please pop some pics up of yours can’t wait to see
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Hi and Welcome to GTOUK 
As Max has said the full technical areas of the forums are for full members only , however there are people more than willing to help if you have a few questions
Regards
Craig 
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I bought the car in Jan last year, its run very well since then with a couple of niggly issues the clutch being the worst hehe its currently poorly - only running on 4 ill see about getting full membership now, thanks for the welcome!
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how do I pay for membership without going through paypal?
Looks good where you based in the country ?
The greatest city in the world - York hehe
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I dunno @DeanMarkTaylor May know but if that’s his dept? You can use PayPal as a guest normally you don’t have to have PayPal account
As Dave says you can use PayPal with just your card details there should be a tick box option. It’s what I do when purchasing club show entries etc
Lovely looking car. If it is only running on 4 then likely culprit is either a coil pack or PTU. Easiest way to tell would be to work out which 2 cylinders aren’t firing (screwdriver on the ear trick should help there) then swap that coil pack with one of the others and see if the misfiring cylinders change. If they do its coil pack if not then chances are its PTU.
I’ll sort membership tomorrow I have a PayPal account just no money in the account it comes from til tomorrow, I found the bottom coil pack wasn’t firing so I bought a new pack and got no change so swapped with another pack an the fault stayed in the same place (didn’t move cylinders), this is an intermittent fault as it drove fine on all 6 yesterday but the day before was only 4 and today it went back down to 4
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PTU - is that the transistor unit below the coil packs?
That’s the one. Sounds like the culprit if coil packs didn’t help. If you have taken the coils out then you will be able to get to the PTU easily. Just 2 screws and 2 electrical connectors from there.
Yea Iv had it off and cleaned the connectors it’s just weird that it’s the coil pack that isn’t fed directly from the PTU that’s faulty - is the third coil pack fed from the crank sensor?
Basically you require a PayPal account for GTOUK Full-Membership purchase, other shop items can be purchased “as a guest”, just using your credit / debit card.
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Later for any other PayPal payments for anything (not just GTOUK stuff)…
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This is made clear by PayPal before any purchase is made.
Hope this helps.
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All of the Coils are fed from the PTU. The PTU has 3 circuits in it each one feeds one coil pack. Hence why you have lost 2 cylinders. I.E. 1 of the 3 circuits in the PTU has failed.
2 are fed directly from the PTU the third goes elsewhere in the loom from the PTU then comes back Iv opened up the loom to check this, the wiring diagram says engine speed sensor
Just want to be sure before buying the wrong part again hehe