milleplod
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....has got me stumped!!
Afternoon all.
Not been on here for ages as haven't had a Fiat with a problem....till now! My dear old mum's '06 plate Panda 1.2 Dynamic Dualogic has conked out, and we're struggling to sort it. The car's done only 15k miles from new and has been very well-serviced from day one. Last week, mum was coming back from bingo, turned from the main road onto her cul-de-sac and the engine died. It re-started straight away....died again a few hundred yards down the road, re-started and then kindly let her get home and park on the drive.
The next day, called for my usual morning cuppa, and then took the Panda out for a spin. It started immediately, let me get half a mile up the road and then almost died on me, but picked up again without me having to re-start. It did the same thing once more on the way back to mum's. Got thinking cap on....for a day or two....back to mum's, started straight away again but didn't even get to the end of the drive before dying.
Spoke to my mechanic mate who kindly turned out that evening - he suspected the crank position sensor, fitted a new one....fired up, but died almost immediately. Fitted a new, new one...in case the first one was duff...just the same. The next day, I fitted a cam position sensor (because it was easy!), but now it was a complete non-starter, turning over nice and fast (new battery 6m ago) but nothing at all. Fuel pump fine, and fuel is getting to the fuel rail.
Yesterday, I called out our breakdown cover. The guy plugged his code reader in, it came up with 'crank sensor not detected' - or similar - so he recovered it to aforementioned mate's place. He put his code reader on, and got (I think, doing this from memory) '0355 crank sensor', even though the car had the second new one fitted. So....he checked the plug and the visible wiring, no obvious problems (the car is like new under the bonnet, no grime/oil leaks at all), took the sensor out again, refitted it....still the same code.
He had noticed that the new sensor came with an O-ring in the box, the original one didn't have one fitted. Tried new sensor with/without, just in case....no difference.
Has anyone any ideas at all? ECU fault?? The next obvious step will be a visit to the local dealer (I don't think there's a Fiat specialist around here), and at their rates I can see mum's car heading for an early grave - its probably only worth a grand, so a day diagnosing at lord-knows-how-much-an-hour may see its demise!
Pete
Afternoon all.
Not been on here for ages as haven't had a Fiat with a problem....till now! My dear old mum's '06 plate Panda 1.2 Dynamic Dualogic has conked out, and we're struggling to sort it. The car's done only 15k miles from new and has been very well-serviced from day one. Last week, mum was coming back from bingo, turned from the main road onto her cul-de-sac and the engine died. It re-started straight away....died again a few hundred yards down the road, re-started and then kindly let her get home and park on the drive.
The next day, called for my usual morning cuppa, and then took the Panda out for a spin. It started immediately, let me get half a mile up the road and then almost died on me, but picked up again without me having to re-start. It did the same thing once more on the way back to mum's. Got thinking cap on....for a day or two....back to mum's, started straight away again but didn't even get to the end of the drive before dying.
Spoke to my mechanic mate who kindly turned out that evening - he suspected the crank position sensor, fitted a new one....fired up, but died almost immediately. Fitted a new, new one...in case the first one was duff...just the same. The next day, I fitted a cam position sensor (because it was easy!), but now it was a complete non-starter, turning over nice and fast (new battery 6m ago) but nothing at all. Fuel pump fine, and fuel is getting to the fuel rail.
Yesterday, I called out our breakdown cover. The guy plugged his code reader in, it came up with 'crank sensor not detected' - or similar - so he recovered it to aforementioned mate's place. He put his code reader on, and got (I think, doing this from memory) '0355 crank sensor', even though the car had the second new one fitted. So....he checked the plug and the visible wiring, no obvious problems (the car is like new under the bonnet, no grime/oil leaks at all), took the sensor out again, refitted it....still the same code.
He had noticed that the new sensor came with an O-ring in the box, the original one didn't have one fitted. Tried new sensor with/without, just in case....no difference.
Has anyone any ideas at all? ECU fault?? The next obvious step will be a visit to the local dealer (I don't think there's a Fiat specialist around here), and at their rates I can see mum's car heading for an early grave - its probably only worth a grand, so a day diagnosing at lord-knows-how-much-an-hour may see its demise!
Pete