paulh71
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hi all
Decided to get myself back in a fatty after a year out with a Kia (yeah I know)
So I have a 2008 3.6 TDV8 120k I bought four weeks ago, test drove it twice to make sure I was happy
It's got great history and the turbos, EGRs, compressor all new in last year
A few days in It started going into limp mode when I kicked it down throwing a transmission fault up, so straight to my mates garage for code read and gearbox service. Picked it up and gave it the beans a bit to check and black smoke so straight back to garage for a them to look
Turns out it was a split rocker cover that was opening on high revs that was causing the original fault so had that done.
Then about a week latter it starts to throw up transmission fault limited gears available but only in the morning, turning on and off seems to clear it, but every day it would get more faults like HTC inactive and then parking brake fault, it's like it has a virus!
Back to garage for code read and it's showing various comps errors, garage cleared them and cleaned up a multiplug they susspected was causing it
Complete system reset and on my way again
Two days latter transmission fault limited gears etc and park brake fault again only in the morning, it sits all day sunbathing at the station and at 6pm it's absolutely fine
I've had the battery tested and it's fine
My mechanic is scratching his head and so am I to be honest
I've had a read of other members with the problem but I can't find any posts that actually say how they finally fixed it
I love the old girl and realy don't want to have to off load it to WBAC I'd rather fix it
Thanks in advance for any advice
Paul
Decided to get myself back in a fatty after a year out with a Kia (yeah I know)
So I have a 2008 3.6 TDV8 120k I bought four weeks ago, test drove it twice to make sure I was happy
It's got great history and the turbos, EGRs, compressor all new in last year
A few days in It started going into limp mode when I kicked it down throwing a transmission fault up, so straight to my mates garage for code read and gearbox service. Picked it up and gave it the beans a bit to check and black smoke so straight back to garage for a them to look
Turns out it was a split rocker cover that was opening on high revs that was causing the original fault so had that done.
Then about a week latter it starts to throw up transmission fault limited gears available but only in the morning, turning on and off seems to clear it, but every day it would get more faults like HTC inactive and then parking brake fault, it's like it has a virus!
Back to garage for code read and it's showing various comps errors, garage cleared them and cleaned up a multiplug they susspected was causing it
Complete system reset and on my way again
Two days latter transmission fault limited gears etc and park brake fault again only in the morning, it sits all day sunbathing at the station and at 6pm it's absolutely fine
I've had the battery tested and it's fine
My mechanic is scratching his head and so am I to be honest
I've had a read of other members with the problem but I can't find any posts that actually say how they finally fixed it
I love the old girl and realy don't want to have to off load it to WBAC I'd rather fix it
Thanks in advance for any advice
Paul
as said ^^^^^
