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Forums › The Car › 206 Problems › 1.4 petrol - surging, losing power then engine warning light |
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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:46 am |
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Joined: Jan 13, 2011
Posts: 1
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Northants
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I've got a 55 reg 206 1.4 Verve which I love but since November time, it's been playing up A LOT.
Occasionally before then I noticed that there were surges in power when I was driving but didn't really think that much of it as they were quite intermittent.
I came back from a 4 or 5 day trip, fired up the car and it juddered and surged when it kicked in. This continued with serious juddering for some distance (good half mile or so) - I thought it might clear (felt quite like debris in the fuel or something) and the engine warning light came on. Limped home, took it to the garage in the morning - engine warning light had gone off and no fault recorded in the ECU when it went through diagnostics.
Started running more roughly since then, feels heavy to drive, fuel efficiency has dropped, quite a bumpy drive, more acceleration required to keep speeds as they were before. At ignition the revs soar to 15-1800 ish then chug at about 1000 before clearing. Been worse in the cold...
But...fired it up to get to work this morning (it's been sat for 4 days again) - very low power. Came to the roundabout and could feel it dying on me as I sat there. Very fast chugging at the junction but low revs, very minimal acceleration and then the warning light came on again. Limped home. Second time this has happened in 3 weeks.
Had the spark plugs replaced last time, it's been through independent and Pug diagnostics and no faults found. Been through some forums and it sounds a bit like it might be the Lambda sensor to me, but everyone suggests something different.
Any ideas would be gratefully received before I give up and just get rid of the car...
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:07 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 6055
Trade Rating: +53
Location: Salisbury / New Forest
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Try cleaning the idle control valve.
Lambda sensor could put out similar issues but you'd get an error code.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:05 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 1792
Trade Rating: +12
Location: Bridgnorth, Nr Wolverhampton
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some 206's were fitted with a faulty sagem coil pack, apparently it sends surges of electricity into the ECU, my guess is that you need to replace it with a valeo one, (about £80 from eurocarparts)
that or throttle position sensor.. doesnt sound like idle control valve problem to me.
oh, and these are french cars we are dealing with here, they seem to pick and choose at what problems deserve an EML
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:26 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 424
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Location: huddersfield
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Have u had a look at the cat
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