My girlfriend bought a 2001 1.4i (petrol) 206 off a family member last week. Not the best looked after car (is well overdue a service) but they'd only used it to run around town. She covers a lot more miles and within a week the check engine light came on.
Had it checked out by my mechanic which brought up an "ageing catalyst" was causing the check engine light. We wiped the error (which it said had been cleared 48 out of a possible 50 times before) and the light went out.
He checked the emissions and could confirm it would pass an MOT (just!)
She drove it for a day then it came back on (as I expected) but I told her it would be okay to keep driving and we'll look at replacing the catalytic converter ASAP. However, last night she was driving on a dual carriageway and the check engine light started flashing and the car lost all power. A recovery vechile arrived for her after about a 20min wait and it just started as normal again and she was able to continue her journey.
My question is why would the catalytic converter cause the car to cut out like this?
I'm going to buy a new converter tomorrow morning as soon as ECP opens and get it replaced tuesday!
How do I make sure that the on board computer knows that the catalytic converter has been changed? I guess you have to tell the computer that the catalytic converter is now no longer "ageing"???
Thanks for the help everyone
Steve206
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:24 pm
Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 2718
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Location: UK
Might be worth swapping the lambda sensors at the same time.
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