JayUK45
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What an eventful couple of weeks I've had, my wife used my car a few weeks ago to go to Scotland, it was a good drive, no issues. On the way back the exhaust shot loads of soot out and was fine (my wife said).
I got up the following morning to go to work. All is fine, driving home was a different matter, on the motorway......boom loads of soot, no power and thought 'oh ****' got home and my 90 degree EGR pipe had a split in it, two rolls of insulation and gaffer tape to the rescue and 'she's alive' purchased new one when paid and fitted. Issue's gone and happy bunny again. Two weeks go by and was pleased with my DIY mechanic skills, until.......... Driving to work on the Tuesday morning when the EML comes on, car goes into limp mode then decides enough is enough and stops, engine will turn over but will not fire up???
So I call for my recovery through the RAC he arrives, and says to me ' does it run?' To which I reply 'no' so he goes ahead and she wakes up and fires up, ticking over nicely. He puts his diagnostics on and it says I have low pre fuel pressure at the rail and low pressure plausibility. Resets the light and follows me all the way home, no further problems.....he's confused, I'm confused my mate does a diagnostic too and it says the same but no lights on, I leave and I use the car as per normal for the next week.
Sighing with relief..... Drive to work the following Monday no issues, till I get on the motorway to go home. The dreaded EML CAME BACK ON.. Goes into limp mode and I manage to get it on the hard shoulder, wait for ten minutes to see if it will fire......nope it's having none of it.
Recovery turn up, drag her on the flat back and gets me home, guy says looks like your fuel pump is dead mate.......NO!!!!
He proceeds to check the high pressure pump under the bonnet, All is working there. Gets under the car and the in tank lift pump was not making any noise......I was gutted.
Following day I lift the seats and carpet and take the cover off and gently tap the top of the lift pump and it whirrs and she fires up, so that is the problem, phone my friendly scrapper, yeah he's got one in a landy there, £20 happy at that I thought. Drive up in the wife's car, take it out and it's a petrol one, only has two connections whereas the diesel one has three (breather). Return that then spent the morning scouring the Internet to find another, on phone call 12, the guy says yeah got one £50. Again drive down, wrong pump again, he said is it a BMW or rover engine, BMW mate I say, over there mate he says, clamber over a mountain of jenga stacked engines. Yay!!!! The right one, pay the guy, take it home, fit it in the snow and she's alive again. Then to get the lights reset. Mate does the diagnostic, no further issues. Now I'm smiling like a Cheshire Cat. Drive around for a while and no EML comes on. Go and pick my daughter up as soon as I get back in and turn it on, yup it's back EML AGAIN NO !!!!!
But she is still driving happily and runs well for the rest of the week. Fitted new fuel filter and no issues since....... Moral of the story don't go to work. Next job is the ABS sensor on the OSF wheel, any suggestions greatly received. Sorry for the long post, needed to get it off my chest hahahaha.
I got up the following morning to go to work. All is fine, driving home was a different matter, on the motorway......boom loads of soot, no power and thought 'oh ****' got home and my 90 degree EGR pipe had a split in it, two rolls of insulation and gaffer tape to the rescue and 'she's alive' purchased new one when paid and fitted. Issue's gone and happy bunny again. Two weeks go by and was pleased with my DIY mechanic skills, until.......... Driving to work on the Tuesday morning when the EML comes on, car goes into limp mode then decides enough is enough and stops, engine will turn over but will not fire up???
So I call for my recovery through the RAC he arrives, and says to me ' does it run?' To which I reply 'no' so he goes ahead and she wakes up and fires up, ticking over nicely. He puts his diagnostics on and it says I have low pre fuel pressure at the rail and low pressure plausibility. Resets the light and follows me all the way home, no further problems.....he's confused, I'm confused my mate does a diagnostic too and it says the same but no lights on, I leave and I use the car as per normal for the next week.
Sighing with relief..... Drive to work the following Monday no issues, till I get on the motorway to go home. The dreaded EML CAME BACK ON.. Goes into limp mode and I manage to get it on the hard shoulder, wait for ten minutes to see if it will fire......nope it's having none of it.
Recovery turn up, drag her on the flat back and gets me home, guy says looks like your fuel pump is dead mate.......NO!!!!
He proceeds to check the high pressure pump under the bonnet, All is working there. Gets under the car and the in tank lift pump was not making any noise......I was gutted.
Following day I lift the seats and carpet and take the cover off and gently tap the top of the lift pump and it whirrs and she fires up, so that is the problem, phone my friendly scrapper, yeah he's got one in a landy there, £20 happy at that I thought. Drive up in the wife's car, take it out and it's a petrol one, only has two connections whereas the diesel one has three (breather). Return that then spent the morning scouring the Internet to find another, on phone call 12, the guy says yeah got one £50. Again drive down, wrong pump again, he said is it a BMW or rover engine, BMW mate I say, over there mate he says, clamber over a mountain of jenga stacked engines. Yay!!!! The right one, pay the guy, take it home, fit it in the snow and she's alive again. Then to get the lights reset. Mate does the diagnostic, no further issues. Now I'm smiling like a Cheshire Cat. Drive around for a while and no EML comes on. Go and pick my daughter up as soon as I get back in and turn it on, yup it's back EML AGAIN NO !!!!!
But she is still driving happily and runs well for the rest of the week. Fitted new fuel filter and no issues since....... Moral of the story don't go to work. Next job is the ABS sensor on the OSF wheel, any suggestions greatly received. Sorry for the long post, needed to get it off my chest hahahaha.
