Nickctp
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| posted on 29/1/13 at 08:57 PM |
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Peugeot 306 meridian - poorly!! Please help
Evening all,
My little a to b car is a pug 306 1.4 meridian on a y reg with 64k on the clock. When it's cold it appears to be running on 3 cylinders until it
warms up then its fine. Yesterday it wouldn't run correctly at all and the engine management lite was flashing. It does not have any Hgf
symptoms at all - no sludge under the filler cap or in the header tank, no blue smoke, no overheating etc. I removed the coil pack after work and all
seemed to be fine - as in no damp plugs, all tight etc. Anyway, I re fitted the coil pack and all seemed fine, no probs this morning, the management
light went out etc. Tonight after work it was running a little rough on the odd occasion (like it was running on 3 again) but only occasionally while
it was cold - as soon as it was warm again there were no probs. Does it sound like the coil pack is on its way out? Or does anyone have any other
ideas?? As afore mentioned - I'm pretty sure it's not the head gasket unless I'm missing something?
All ideas or suggestions welcome.
The car is only worth about £600 but I can't afford another run about at the mo so I ideally need to fix it quickly and as cheap as poss!
Thanks in advance
Nick
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mark chandler
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| posted on 29/1/13 at 09:38 PM |
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Change the coil pack, mine did that years ago. Euro car parts stock them.
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Staple balls
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| posted on 29/1/13 at 09:57 PM |
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Our berlingo (I suspect the same engine, but 1.6) did that for a few days, then dropped into limp home mode.
I'd suggest hitting a scrappy, a new coilpack for ours only cost about £20, and it's done a good 8k miles without a stutter, saved
chucking money away without a solid diagnosis. (though a Citroen main stealer mechanic confirmed my suspicions)
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GOJO
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| posted on 29/1/13 at 11:21 PM |
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Coil packs are a common issue on these but injectors failing are more common on this engine to cause the missfire on older vehicles try removing the
wire clip from all the injectors ( taking care not to loose them) then run and lift the injector wiring on at a time to try and pin point the cylinder
thats at fault. Then a easy thing for you would be to swap the injector to the next cylinder and repeat above, doing this will put the em lamp on
though.
The last injector i got was around £65 from pages (at trade), if it is the coil pack avoid cheap ones eg fuel parts (absolute junk)
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cliftyhanger
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| posted on 30/1/13 at 03:31 AM |
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Had similar issue on our car. Long/short changed plugs as one showed an obvious misfire (cheapest solution first) then next along th echain was
coilpack. £25 at the local (very helpful, there you go sir, all clean and ready to go etc) and 5 mins in the car park, all done, good as new. Safer
than forking out big money in case that isn't the culprit.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 30/1/13 at 07:46 AM |
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Coil pack and a new set of plugs ---- always fit plugs if changing a coil pack.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Grimsdale
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| posted on 30/1/13 at 11:51 AM |
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is it possible to check the temperature sender? is it worse when it's really cold out?
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 30/1/13 at 07:35 PM |
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Had a few injectors fail on Peugeot/Citroen engines
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Nickctp
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| posted on 1/2/13 at 01:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Grimsdale
is it possible to check the temperature sender? is it worse when it's really cold out?
It would appear so!
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