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
Change the coil pack, mine did that years ago. Euro car parts stock them.
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)
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)
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.
Coil pack and a new set of plugs ---- always fit plugs if changing a coil pack.
is it possible to check the temperature sender? is it worse when it's really cold out?
Had a few injectors fail on Peugeot/Citroen engines
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Originally posted by Grimsdale
is it possible to check the temperature sender? is it worse when it's really cold out?